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Family Reunion of 75 Years at Sunnyside<br />
To celebrate the 75th year since my grandfather, Walter James Filmer, selected the<br />
land to become known as “Sunnyside Farm” in 1910, Linley and I invited all his<br />
descendants to a reunion on the farm. It was on 7 September 1985 and 51 of the 68<br />
descendants a ended a great day of remembrance.<br />
Descendants of Walter James Filmer…<br />
Bolto, Gilpin, Filmer, Hersey, Leathard, and Wya families<br />
We were in the early stage of organising the 100th year reunion when my Dad fell<br />
over and broke his hip. He did not recover too well, so we abandoned the reunion.<br />
We have a photo of Dad with the fence that was 90 years old along Ward Rd. We<br />
had to replace it because the posts where ge ng red. The wire was s ll good<br />
because in those days they put a lot more zinc galvanising on the wire than they do<br />
now. This stopped it ge ng rusty. One of Dad’s first jobs when he started farming at<br />
15-year-old was to bore a hole at ground level with a ratchet hand drill for a bo om<br />
wire to hold the sheep ne ng down to stop the kangaroos pushing underneath.<br />
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