Almost 20 years ago when we first acquired our land at Wallace, Victoria, Australia, it was a run-down potato farm. There was rubbish all over the place - including old car bodies, wire, broken bottles and discarded bits of farm equipment. We spent much of the first two years cleaning up this rubbish. Among the bits and pieces wa a metal stencil that said "Wellwood". Easy, this was the name of the old farm, it would be the name of the new orchard.
What we did not find out until years later was that the stencil was the name of a previous owner, William Ellwood. Here is a picture of his cottage.
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Do we still have the stencil? I have some vague notion that it's sitting in the pressing shed.
The stencil has not been seen for a long long time - probably thrown out by mistake.
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