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By this time, the older children were going to the local Skipton school. Alfred had bought a quiet school pony named Jerry and Winnie would drive the buggy with the children to and from school each day. As she was behind in her schoolwork, Win would use the time spent on the journey catching up with her spelling with the reins from the horse placed over her toe.
Taken in front of the house at Skipton in 1926, this photo shows (from L/R):
Winnie, Reg, Laurie (behind the first horse's ear), Alfred and Les.
At the end of that summer, Alfred's father, Alfred John Cheeseman, came to live with them at Skipton after his home near Beaufort was burnt down by a fire caused either by a lightning strike or an itinerant swagman. Alfred John was given Win's room and she had to bunk in with Teen. In spite of this, Winnie had fond memories of her paternal grandfather:
Alfred and Alice in front of their house at Skipton in 1924.
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