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Merredin Railway Museum > Records

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY & CAROLINE ( GRANNY) BATES

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Red File Date of use from 1995 Donated Phyliss Maiola

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Notes & photos of Caroline Bates since 1896 Bates St in merredin was named after them .They lived in the Railway Dam house while it was being constructed .Owned business blocks in Merredin including a tent house on the site of the Merredin Post Office & a Butchers Shop opposite Atkinsons Drapery .Owned farm land 5 miles east of Merredin

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cwa-org-156-1995.729

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Merredin Railway Museum

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