23 Mar The Kitchen Dresser at Enderslea Farm, Chittering Valley
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 my mother and father began to think about retirement she thought it would be good to go to Albany, probably because the weather would have been cooler. My father being a city lad didn’t fancy that. As my sister fiona had 2 horses it seemed a good idea to buy a hobby farm within easy reach of Perth and my mother could have her feeling for the country satisfied there. In 1975 He bought Enderslea Farm and that worked brilliantly for the whole family in different ways. Enderslea Farm with its Historic early Settlers home and the old stone barn built by ticket of leave men gave a wonderful reason to be interested in the early history of Western Australia. It also provided an appropriate kitchen to display some of the old kitchenalia of my mother and grandmother.