Daphne Best, the daughter of Les Best, doing the washing at Grandma Best’s home. This was the era of the bush clothes prop (before the invention of Hills hoists). The bush clothes prop was a long (2.5-metre) tree branch, with a vee at the top, used to prop up a clothesline.
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Alf Best’s Diary
Alf Best with his cows on “Sweet Home Dairy” on Payne Road. These photos taken in the 1940s show the farm’s post and rail fences. Alf Best was married to Ellen Fanning’s sister Lucina.
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