Andy Steed and Matt Hughes have been home

Andy Steed and Becky.

Some of Kilcullen’’s ‘wild geese’ have been home over recent days, and touched base with the Diary through which they maintain a connection with where they came from, writes Brian Byrne.

We met Andy Steed in Kilcullen Heritage Centre yesterday morning, with his friend Becky. They live in Clearwater in Florida, and Andy left Kilcullen in 1967.

He was impressed with the Volvo leather seats in the Town Hall Theatre, which are a far cry from the hard stool 'cheap seats' in the cinema there when he was growing up.

“We used to run out in the interval to McCarthy’s sweet shop beside the bank,” he recalled, and also remembered getting 4d (pennies in old old money, when 12 of them made a shilling) each day when at school to have a cup of tea in The Hideout to go with his lunch sandwiches.

Your editor was also called over to a car which pulled in while I was walking downtown on Friday, driven by Matt Hughes who has been back on this side of the world from Australia for a wedding.

We had already flagged the planned arrival of both Andy and Matt, thanks to word from Jim Greenway in New Zealand, who is also coming this way in June.


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