BARNARD Pat

Happy Days at Pallinup

Pat was the daughter of Charlie and Trudie Barnard.
Charlie was a highly respected member of the 10th Light Horse, and was chosen to be in the Dress Parade (on horseback for the Opening of the Memorial Hall.
– Correspondence from Pat Down nee Barnard-
 "We lived on a Soldier Settlers farm at Pallinup, named “Kenbar”, a combination of Kennedy (my Mother’s maiden name) and Barnard. When I was born Mum had a lady named Susie Cousins from Tambellup to help her. I wonder if the footballer Ben Cousins was any relation to her!
 We lived at Pallinup until I was about 11 when we moved to Gnowangerup. The farms were so small and eventually were never viable. What lovely times we had with the lovely families around us. When I read about them in the newsletters it brings back wonderful memories.

We had great times with the Denny family. Wonderful people – Mrs Denny made a dress once out of white tennis silk trimmed with mauve bias binding – I loved it.
 We had great times with the Denny family. Wonderful people – Mrs Denny made a dress once out of white tennis silk trimmed with mauve bias binding – I loved it.

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Also Martinup was a great place to visit - the Treasure’s were special people. Vicki was such a beautiful lady – full of fun and loved to dress up – I can remember her dressing up as a gypsy once. We all loved their fig and mulberry trees.
 Jack Treasure was such a handsome fellow – how sad he and others were taken by that rotten war
 Another favourite of ours was Doss (Dorothy) Flanagan and Peb also Beth and May. I did visit them in Perth once when I was over there once. She was always laughing and I always remembered the willow pattern on all her kitchen china, towels, etc. It was a pleasure to read about the family in your last newsletter.
 Also George Aylmore, Russell Denny and other young men who were Frank’s friends that we have read about in previous editions
 When our sheep were being shorn we would go down and the shearers cook would make a fuss of us – his name was “Kewpie” Wright. He would give us pieces of orange to eat among other things.
 Another memory of Pallinup was Xmas – when Father Xmas came – I can’t remember if that was at the school or the shearing sheds but we went and we loved it. The only thing we were disappointed in was that Dad never seemed to get there. Little did we know that he was Father Xmas – and we sat on his knee and couldn’t get over how much he knew about us. The innocence of childhood!!

Our school concerts were great. I remember being in “Alice in Wonderland” once and took the part of the dormouse – we all dressed up for our parts – I had a mouse head made of paper mache and wire. All I had to say was (with my head resting on my folded arms on the table) was “I can’t hear a word you fellows are saying” – big part! We really had a great school at Pallinup.
 Wonderful teachers – one being a Jack Larsen – another Joe E. Brown – I think he boarded at Freegard's. One boy who went to Pallinup was a bit of a larrikin. His name was Dave Stewart. If the temperature went up over 103 deg (F) we were allowed to go home. So at lunchtime this boy would go in and put a lighted match under the thermometer and when we went back in – everyone was hot – so I guess we went home.
 I think we had a Sunday school at the school and a Miss Venning rode her horse there to give us religious instruction. Mum had correspondence lessons arranged for us, too. We really had a good education at Pallinup – reading writing and arithmetic were high on the agenda. Algebra was not my best subject. I remember I only got 29% in a test once that may have been in Gnowangerup.

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Happy days at Pallinup. Never bored like kids are today. We went rabbiting, built cubby houses and hammocks and had chores to do. Helped with the sheep, gathered mushrooms, milked the cows, gathered wood and kindling.
 Dad knew some others from Tambellup – a family of about five sons by the name of Cadd. Later on when I joined the army in WWII a girl named Cynthia Cadd joined and was with me in the same unit at Buckland Hill above Leighton Beach. We became great friends and keep in touch – she lives in Brisbane. Our Unit was the 29th Anti-Aircraft. Her father would have been one of the Tambellup Cadd’s.
 We didn’t want to move to Gnowangerup but we didn’t regret it. We didn’t travel to Katanning or Tambellup so much after moving; I guess we had so many other things to do. Before leaving behind my stories of farm life I wonder if anyone would remember a family named Peaches? They lived somewhere near Peb and Doss Flanagan and were not there for very long
 Pallinup was a hard life for those men and their wonderful wives and how they managed – making bread, soap and turning out great meals – no supermarkets or McDonald’s in those days!

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