LIKE thousands of people who grew up in Merbein, Deon and Summer Blaby have fond memories of lunches and recess gossip shared with young friends, and the company of a few spiders, beneath the enormous sun shelters at the town's now long-gone primary school.

With a bit of help from the Merbein District Historical Society, their father, well-known Birdwoodton builder Grahame Blaby, and some other p...