 She ran the pottery at first single-handedly but sometime in the 1920s hired George Samuel Osborne, an ex-serviceman and gardener, as her assistant.They developed a close relationship and eventually married, moving their pottery operation away from Reynella to Ballarat in Victoria state.South Road was bypassed in the later half of the century and since 1960 the spread of suburbs south from Adelaide has transformed much of the agricultural land into housing.