The Claremont resident has only skipped the annual event a handful of times because of illness, never by choice.
Mrs Leach remembers travelling from her family’s farm in Cuballing to Perth as a child to spend a day at the Show.
‘My father was very particular that we went and saw the animals,’ she said.
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READ NOW‘I then took my children to the show with the sandwiches and thermos.
‘The Show has been modernised, moved with the times’