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Memories of Wittenoom, a once-thriving but asbestos-riddled town that led to more than 1,000 deaths

The final reminders of one of Australia's deadliest towns will soon be dismantled and buried. 

The people are gone but the memories and stories of Wittenoom will remain, forever linked to deadly blue asbestos that killed an estimated 1,200 residents and miners.

But it is also the home of happy memories where children were raised and people enjoyed their lives in the red dirt at the centre of Western Australia's Pilbara region.

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