How Kilcullen shoeboxes crossed the galaxy

A shed that was out of this worldShoeboxes were important to us youngsters in Kilcullen growing up in the early 50s, writes Brian Byrne. Of course, for their original purpose they had no interest to us at all. It was what they could become.

It was before television, at least in Kilcullen. Radio was where we got our serial programmes, and DC comics and the weekly 'follyer-uppers' in the cinema our visual inputs from stuff that was only dreamed of, like space travel.

But because they were in the realm of dreams, we could dream big. MORE>>