Farm and Family

1. 0:00 Ken Yeomans

   you're on my name is Ken Yeomans and I live at Hardy adding is between Armidale and Uralla we're actually don't know talking at the moment, and it today is the 16th of August 2012 and we're in my brother. that how many years did you go to school do you remember?

2. 0:29 Clarence Yeomans

   When I was seven and went through in.

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   Forces and so in balance.

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   And he wants his soul.

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   Did you write a bible did you have?

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   walked most of the that three months

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   unless you know forcing

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   just never went to any other school.

9. 1:16 Ken Yeomans

   When you work on the farm, and I feel

10. 1:18 Clarence Yeomans

    it and worked on the farm. Yes.

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    Did you have any sheep loads?

12. 1:27 Clarence Yeomans

    Well the first ship and had some.

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    good vegetables and

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    the corn and

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    like

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    most years

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    one one pounding in terms of sources

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    Lofty and Noble

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    oh just general

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    and this is spiral Horses by God

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    not

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    enough.

23. 2:32 Ken Yeomans

    He was a bit quieter wasn't though.

24. 2:35 Clarence Yeomans

    Yeah. Well, pony queen.

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    With the socks to those days.

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    They never track the I just don't have

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    to remember

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    and

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    you know how

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    to move that

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    you

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    can't remember just when they got the sector.

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    1948

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    some of the methods

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    and

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    many many

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    apples

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    here we have must damage from the from the weather

39. 3:51 Clarence Yeomans

    Oh is the higher damage of course and all the time done and the light for us. Sometimes took the whole cup or part of the crop.

40. 4:05 Ken Yeomans

    It's part of life. all the dealing with the elements

41. 4:17 Clarence Yeomans

    So I was a lot to say on the moon.

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    The first of April lives in 14 wasn't it? Yeah lovely

43. 4:34 Ken Yeomans

    Yeah.

44. 4:40 Clarence Yeomans

    I was born with adding.

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    and my father went into the death on this this Austin to come out and help with the birth

46. 5:08 Ken Yeomans

    did your your mother used to go down to the

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    City shows everything

48. 5:16 Clarence Yeomans

    mum and dad both were the Sydney south of years. And then the mum was a crazy little business show.

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    that

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    your brothers or you ever go to did any of your brothers or sisters used to go?

51. 5:39 Clarence Yeomans

    Have a couple times.

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    I can remember when we

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    Trace

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    who used to put in the shower now and build pyramids from The Philosophers

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    know

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    so when you when we were growing crops that you might only had horses to do all the discussing and painting of

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    horses

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    are meant the size of the nurse come out of the Southeast

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    All of your brothers and sisters to go to the hiding school.

60. 7:13 Clarence Yeomans

    I don't know what I remember this.

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    I think all over the field you.

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    you

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    my children Mr Lenny & Mr Wharton

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    before that was missed the Honda

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    near me

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    Mr god

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    listen to this isn't believed in the left hand this so he might divide in my right hand.

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    I left handed in the hills.

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    But those are the rule.

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    You never

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    want to high school.

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    Just before 14.

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    a pen friend that also built

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    Hmm,

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    I'll say your sister burn had a pen friend and also built. You know then? I was Eddie one already has he yeah

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    and

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    this is shy, and this is one of the live home. So it is kind of a sister.

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    and that's how we met

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    and you ended up getting married in you.

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    didn't have and then you move to when you are three years.

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    to build with the They all have for you.

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    to use

83. 10:08 Ken Yeomans

    Did you first have electricity when you have to do? Yes? so That was about the time. We

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    have a lot of the house.

85. 10:20 Ken Yeomans

    no

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    Yeah.

87. 10:29 Ken Yeomans

    So this electricity came come about that time right through it, but not in 3600.

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    some of us that this Is kind of as far as our house? and

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    this is made the electrician's said we have to have 10. subscribers before that could put his own so we got 10 and then we end up with more 12 I think and it will go put on.

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    Oh forget it. That was done earlier.

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    Yes. post office and exchange and we have found calls was numbers. One two three. four four four four children

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    and for

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    all

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    Do you remember we

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    all we all walked through the years? This is about. or two more

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    that do you remember when you started playing cricket.

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    Now remember is not that good.

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    idea, I think

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    He

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     played for many years. I was. In my last time of the seven weeks.

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     as of all the left hand symbol

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     and then after churches started their sugar from our join them with him.

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     This is called as my father's place. Before I was married.

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     And

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     here's the father was the Prime Minister's all around the area. where a good team is 7 and a family and all the flowers

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     well, it says well Methodist Church I went to church.

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     how simple

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     several years

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     Know about 20 I think.

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     There's a lot of families in the area. Hmm.

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     What if the good you understand?

112. 15:19 Clarence Yeomans

     that my mother father's house And they're all plants have the one. Miles of the fifth one These hills as well here.

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     With the replies as well as the school that as well the courts were.

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     Built a lot of the hunters. Yeah, what

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     is the financial?

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     Who has a tennis club? rather than school

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     There was two years.

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     You were used to go to church which we did and but you remember. The quality of all the your family were very good singers.

119. 16:33 Clarence Yeomans

     There's a lot of

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     we all sang of my mother's funeral. services anyway as well as the field settlement of say

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     everyone has a pretty good voice

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     of the piano

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     when a sister

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     And you're all pretty good singers.

125. 17:13 Clarence Yeomans

     Yeah. some some say I say teller of one of the term and brother says. bite telling her sister saying I was having some of the problem.

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     with the used to have a good choir in your other with your part of whereas

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     the body

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     I

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     didn't know didn't have any electricity.

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     by the organism

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     did Mario

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     She probably still closed. I think

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     yeah. and

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     what did they have many socials and like oh

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     yes, this was the two months

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     And

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     most of them and the former. and the prize games outside

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     before and the whole

139. 19:24 Ken Yeomans

     okay, I'm into brother. Larry said youngest son. and yeah, I grew up an Audi lived at all my life. I didn't live on well. I lived on parts of the property, but I wasn't working on the property for many years. but he now I sort of about 25 and another been doing other work ever since but yeah, a lot of fun on the fan we Remember the old vehicles we used to have to run around the national business, that's

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     right.

141. 20:13 Ken Yeomans

     so yeah, but I actually I didn't do all my primary school that I didn't because I closed it. In 1959 58 in the 1958 for one year into the hospital after that. 958

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     Um yeah well I do but I can't remember his name. I know there was a Mr wheel and was there at one stage and there was a Mr Watson was there. Yeah, I'm not sure which one was there when it closed but not what I wanted.

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     But yeah, I think he did he bought a day for a long walk because he wasn't he was on his eyes. Yeah. So Mr William had a big family. and he used to live in Armidale and he used to ride out on a push bike come to teachers.

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     so all this time dead was putting up with us as boys. Well, we like to put up with. That we had to put up with oh

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     no. No. No, no.

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     No, no no no what to do?

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     Now the boys up and between the moment.

148. 21:58 Ken Yeomans

     I think we all applied cricket, too. Didn't we were younger yeah, I'm a bit of tennis, but mainly cricket. was our thing we can play the new played the longest in here. OK Google

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     so When You Were Young used to do cycling too didn't you yeah you race? You got a couple of cups from cycle racing Avenue I

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     have one cup of bowling.

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     who

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     we were a bit of a sporting family in that respect, but we never took it on as a career in England just a recreational thing.

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     I can't remember the Alice turn up because I was only born in 1947 but I spent plenty of hours on an operating it in the years after and I got older and find.

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     First tractor has seen the wheels.

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     Yes.

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     yesterday

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     how many did you did we did we got much crops like opening like it?

158. 23:43 Clarence Yeomans

     Oh, it's the phrase yeah.

159. 23:48 Ken Yeomans

     Love, what was the cone forward? Is that for you?

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     know this is all the players.

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     they

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     expose

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     you didn't tell a lot.

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     No talking about apples. you remember when the when he is a title to the railway station in the nail. and All the second one guys,

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     who is the time in the whole host of this one?

166. 24:28 Ken Yeomans

     That'll be a long time ago hmm. So the first one vehicle and awesome card.

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     Yeah, they'll be back before we were born. How many cases would they get on? A case I forget now here.

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     famous

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     concerned and

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     There's a very funny horse. he is very back for the only and Amen

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     I remember saying he

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     was it and the other half of 12

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     a storm came up and the bitter lightning and thunder and now we'll talk about back to the shed, so I think you could go with the trailer said he went around the corner and knocked the corner of the shed a little bit, but didn't do too bad.

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     I can I can remember towards the end of the day when you think it was more than we were pruning. And we were picking up the pruning to take them out to to burn them and stuff like in the nightly be hitting up to be fairly hidden along, and then when he got to the shape and realized that he had to get in the corner and get further to take him. He said he didn't he thought he was going to know but he said he faced. Just and just went a little quietly. yes, but they always seem to know in the end of the day was he

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     The newer father and mother were both killed too and the salki weren't they? Grandfather and grandmother.

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     Yeah both in the same sulky at the same place a couple of years apart.

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     I ran so my guy turned father your

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     great grandfather.

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     and mother

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     that two years apart in the same awesome. saying the same spot, but they always used to call it slather and Summers Some respected as we now as a virtually got no trees in it. Was that heavily timbered? But there was timber cut is in their working, and they couldn't make him here because there's so many trees around. In the couldn't make the team to cut his ear the accident. so he had to believe that.

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     When was it was a place established? 1965 wasn't it was 1965 So, it's only a couple of years off.

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     Back to the place and started it you were great grandfather and great grandfather. Wasn't like a never remember which one it was, but it's too many of them. They were all the time now.

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     Yeah, that's a

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     150.

185. 28:45 Ken Yeomans

     It was three generations before that was the fourth. on the 5th okay well I got a generation

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     more than this.

187. 29:02 Ken Yeomans

     And that's been five generation living on the property, wasn't it? Wednesday

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     Internally no more than four of them forward. Four generations is a very long time. Yeah. Yeah that's right. Well, there was four generations of living there to three months ago. Yeah, yeah, and then the boys have left and gone. That's not there. They are now that's right and your brain. Oh, that's right. Yeah. but you're going Sons Of Us off the property at the moment anyway without so put a little change in the day of the years, I mean. it used to be a big job and everything was done in cases you just have to carry everything in cases and stuff like that didn't make it a bit easier.

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     with all the leaking here in the age that you

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     remember the name of that tray that allows cherry.

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     So this

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     otherwise you what time will we had two fellows picking shows? cherries in my to my girls are those two doors of the side of the No, couldn't pick it in one day one tree. And they said they could. so I better just friendly and the 70s on the three and as we are back next day for two cases.

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     I couldn't figure. 1 3 in the Night Falls

194. 31:46 Ken Yeomans

     little big trees like I can't remember that one, but I can remember some that were pretty big. Can you remember that

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     Warrior to the two?

196. 32:00 Ken Yeomans

     Yeah, when did you first get a car?

197. 32:06 Clarence Yeomans

     I don't know.

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     this is a Ford Here no seriously.

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     This is what has said the bank. This is the one yeah that's right.

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     No,

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     yeah.

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     So what you get after that that okay?

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     What about the Graham was? the Graham page without a second hand. Did you get that second hand the Grime know?

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     Paula do

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     You use

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     yeah.

207. 33:20 Ken Yeomans

     and I remember how many novel

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     actually used to be a lot of orchards in the district years ago. I'm not sure how many but there was certainly a lot. I mean. There's a couple of 10 to fail and put him in 40 or 50. Yeah, there was a lot of rain and I mean everywhere you went.

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     What was Kentucky

210. 34:01 Ken Yeomans

     Kentucky and then I went into I went into A lot of metal Orchard got Orchards going. But then fruit got cheap and there's a lot of hail and stuff around and a lot of them sort of

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     lost their daughter's now.

212. 34:17 Ken Yeomans

     Most of my go on there, but well they're all gone. I think there's one or two it, Kentucky

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     The one he is the only one that the only major one in the district, I guess. yeah, so there's other areas of sort of going ahead, but nothing even not bringing the

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     whole apples on the North Coast too.

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     It is actually.

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     what

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     None of it guys to the markets anymore. Well, it's a lot of the magazine and because the quality of the way it's going to be prepared is a lot.

218. 35:26 Clarence Yeomans

     We used to pick between two and three thousand cases of cherries. and they all went to Brisbane Brisbane markets

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     my truck big transport our modes mostly abused

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     they come out to the taken them up.

221. 36:04 Ken Yeomans

     Yeah.

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     the Magnum up

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     you

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     take the first layer in the case, which is in again.

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     And then when I opened it up at the markets for the shops in it. They really look all nice.

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     Ago!

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     And then they uploaded didn't

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     they where's the film most shows? the fox was just

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     say

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     not to do with the point of a business Direction

231. 37:49 Clarence Yeomans

     Yeah apples. Who enter those days because they have no cool thought?

232. 38:10 Ken Yeomans

     Was there any of any of your relations or any family had to go to the war? Do you remember that? many of your brothers or any of your angles and

233. 38:21 Clarence Yeomans

     oh, definitely

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     awesome

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     guy

236. 38:41 Ken Yeomans

     Any of you know you?

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     know Or first of all.

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     Some more verses about you.

239. 39:08 Ken Yeomans

     growing fruit and vegetables and and grain really that was important for the important for the country to have food so A lot of the people that were growing of food in that didn't actually go. I think that was the way it worked a bit you'll have to stay home. They had to stay home and produced the produce for not only for the local people but also for the soldiers and stuff to say. things like that But you actually went to European name at 12 months in Vietnamese I was in the army from the end of 67 to the 69 and I was overseas from in the 68 to the 69.

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     And I was the only one. Only one of the yemen's family really. Service and apart from maybe some of the one away from

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     someone.

242. 40:18 Ken Yeomans

     and I didn't have any friends or anything in there either, so you know and Friends

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     to probably be pretty hard to the family to sort of understand. What at all like because they never had anything to do with it. You know previously members. where there's a lot of families you find a grandfather and father and and Knuckles and everything goes all went and yeah, so they've got a real military history and they

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     Geoff went to visit them

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