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• Grew up on Mount Swan Station, Northern Territory and moved to Neutral Junction Station, Northern Territory after her marriage.  Spent 42 years there in a life of sheep shearing and cattle droving.

Link - Eleanor Mengel: life's the best teacher

ABC Rural

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Link - Eleanor Mengel

ABC News

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Image - Joe and Eleanor Mengel

Joe and Eleanor Mengel at Mount Swan in about 1960

photo provided by, and used with permission of, Ian Pyman (cropped from the photo)

Link - The Drovers

Centralian Advocate (Alice Springs, NT : 1947 - 1954), Friday 26 June 1953, page 10

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Link - PERSONAL

Centralian Advocate (Alice Springs, NT : 1947 - 1954), Friday 26 August 1949, page 1

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