My grandmother, Elsie Ford, and my mother, Jean Clarke, collected blue crockery for many years. It looks very colourful on the dresser in the kitchen at Enderslea Farm. My mother was a country girl. She grew up in Katanning during the early 20th Century. When...
I love this coloured print that hangs in the bedroom at Enderslea. I bought it in Melbourne many years ago. Its not really relevant in any way to Enderslea except to show the marked difference in the 19th Century lives of gentry women as compared...
This drawing was owned by Douglas Jecks a descendant of Henry and Sarah Morley. He was in the road looking at the farm when my father Ken Clarke went up and said hello. As a result we received a coloured photocopy of this drawing. After Douglas and...
National Trust Heritage Festival 2014 and 2015 The Sarah of Enderslea Farm Oral History Performance was really successful in September 2013 so was repeated on 27th April during the 2014 National Trust festival. Jenny Davis did a great job with the scriptwriting and direction. And as...
I'm really excited about this grant. I'm wanting to take the roof of the Stone Barn built by the Convicts back to its original profile. Late in the 19th Century the original Shingle Roof burnt down. Its taken about 125 years to replace it. I'm...
On Saturday 2nd May and Sunday 3rd May 2015 this play, scripted and directed by Jenny Davis and produced by Diane Pope was performed in the stone barn at Enderslea Farm. In WA's centennial year of 1929, photographer Helen Ogden and artist Ida Richardson have just...
On 29th and 30th April 2014 Bob Shepherd and Zack Shepherd assisted University of Western Australia (UWA) Masters of Professional Archaeology (MPA) students with heritage metal detection surveys at historic Enderslea Farm in the Chittering Valley north of Perth in Western Australia. A very interesting...
SARAH OF ENDERSLEA FARM This performance will be repeated on April 27th 2014.during the National Trust Heritage Festival. The performance is a Oral History Performance between Sarah Morley and her son-in-law Daniel Baughan. He was a ticket-of-leave man who married her daughter Caroline. The event includes...
I'm in the process of creating an information page about the 2nd Headmistress of Presbyterian Ladies College Elsie Rankine Finlayson Ogden. She was a distinguished MA honours graduate from Cambridge and had wide teaching experience. Shannon Lovelady, the Archivist at PLC, was interested in her and...
With the Chittering Valley Tourist Bureau I tried to get a grant from Lotterywest to celebrate Enderslea's 160th year Anniversary. Unfortunately Lotterywest does not fund Tourist organisations but I'll persevere with something. I've been in touch with a well known Perth Actress and Script writer...