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Coates Betty

 Betty Coates Born in Romford, Essex on March 12th 1926, as Betty Smith. Her childhood was indelibly marked by her mother’s death from breast cancer in 1937, when Betty was just eleven years old. She […]

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Coates WP (Pat)

WP (Pat) Coates William (Bill) Peyton Coates was born in Kinsale, Ireland, in 1883. He started work on the railways in 1901 and, from 1903 was a member of the Railway Clerks Association and its […]