Something of the fragmented steel structures they discovered on a visit to their now-dismantled childhood home, ‘Fairymede’ (a sugar cane mill and processing plant outside Bundaberg), is apparent in the Drew house. When the Drews took Laws there to refresh memories, they found it in the process of being demolished. “There were amazing shapes to be seen everywhere – these big boilers and cane-cutting machines and turbines – all being dismantled,” says Laws.