Childhood artifacts: Binnaway pump shed

June 25th, 2008

In my previous post I talked about that sensation you get when you visit what is called a childhood artifact.   In that case I was talking about the comic book artist Kelley Jones, artist that I didn’t really like at the time but have warmed to recently.

Recently I’ve been encountering more and more of these artifacts in my life.   Maybe they’ve always been there which is what I suspect is the case and I’m purely becoming more aware of their existence.

Surprisingly not all of these artifacts have their roots in commercial popular culture (collective sigh from those hoping I was going to talk about Voltron).

The internet has been a remarkably effective catalyst for these nostalgic episodes.   When doing some research recently I discovered some photos online of a small town that I lived in when I was around ten to twelve years old.   Binnaway is a small (very small) town in New South Wales and I lived there for three years (which in my childhood was a very long time) so it was a large part of my developmental years.

For a child even though Binnaway was small it had everything you could want.   A river, parks, quiet roads, a pool, showgrounds (that had town xmas parties) and squash courts (ok not everyone needs a squash court but it’s where I was introduced to the game!).

The photo I found online is of a pump shed that was used for the town’s water.   For us kids it was a monster’s shed or some other sort of fantasy.   It was a mystery, all this giant equipment which probably wasn’t all that big in reality.

binnaway pump shed

Just down the road from there was a dirt path going down to the river which was really steep and thrilling to ride down on your bike.

It was just really cool finding this photo online and brought back a few memories.

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