"Returning home to the farm at Broomehill, we went to work for Arthur Dawson who farmed at Toolbrunup. We stayed only twelve months as we found the conditions too primitive. I was by then expecting our first child.
I stayed with my brother Les and his wife, May, in Gnowangerup. May was the daughter of Alf Richards, the son of old pioneers of the town.
Our first child, a daughter, Lynnette Joy was born on 1st March, 1938 at the Gnowangerup Hospital. While Lynnette was still only a few weeks we returned to "Tama Grove" at Broomehill.
The farm was known as "Marshall Bros." and was then owned by two Marshall brothers, Robert Hamilton, who died in 1935, and Norman Eugene, both of whom were miners from Trafalgar, Kalgoorlie. Rob. was appointed executor of his father's estate.

A very surprised doctor delivered a son to Phyllis on the 7th April and my son, Robert arrived on the 9th.
Dr. Pope asked us if we always did everything together, even to bathing in the same tub!
A nurse at the Coleraine hospital named Margaret Herbert, helped in the delivery of our babies. It is interesting to note that she later married Isaac Walker (better known as Zic) and our son Robert was later employed on the staff of the local paper which was owned and run by Isaac and Margaret Walker.”
Comments:
Robynne Walsh: Wonderful first person description of life in Broomehill. I believe Dr Pope was a well loved doctor and was based in a Albany. I was close to his wife.