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1 PEACE CAKE SCULPTURE 9 MAN IN THE MOON Sculptors: Elizabeth Hersey and Artist: Terry Tomlin Marni Koster QUEENS PARK Location: First floor, Be inspired by Maryborough’s latest Location: City Hall Visitor Maryborough Library, To Doon Villa Information Centre, Kent St Maryborough 127-129 Bazaar St tourist attraction by walking the new ST FORT Self Contained This sculpture, commissioned in 2016, Military & RV Park SUSSEX ST MARY RIVER Author of the Mary Poppins Mural Trail and checking out the is the start of the trail and sits in a Colonial book series, Pamela Lyndon artistic gems adorning buildings in the display cabinet inside the Maryborough Museum Gatakers Travers, was born Helen Central Business District, telling the Visitor Information Centre. It is a Artspace Lyndon Goff in the former replica of the original Peace Cake 24 25 26 Australian Joint Stock Bank quirky and serious stories of the city’s made by bakers Stellmach and Sons, WHARF ST in Maryborough’s Central colourful past. for the Mayoral VictoryMARYBOROUGH Ball held at the Business District on 9 August 1899. The location is marked by Maryborough Town Hall onSTATE 29 April HIGH Maryborough Family 27 29 a bronze statue of the beloved character and pedestrian lights The idea of using CBD buildings as a canvas is well 1919 to celebrate the end ofSCHOOL World War I. The replica Peace Cake Heritage Institute featuring fun Mary Poppins silhouettes. Goff grew up in the is made to the same dimensions as the original, containing JOHN ST established with many cities creating mural trails that 23 Story Bank - birthplace 28 30 Australian bush before attending boarding school in Sydney. She four tiers and standing about 1.5m high and 61cm in diameter. have become great tourist drawcards. of Mary Poppins author migrated to England at the age of 25 and began writing Mary Ornaments adorn each of the layers including battleships, 22 KENT ST Maryborough’s Mural Project, launched in 2015, now P.L. Travers Poppins in 1933 under the pen name P.L. Travers. In Mary canon, rifles, light horsemen, the British lion and bulldog and has 30 murals and installations, with more to come. Poppins and the House Next Door, she says everything that is the emu and kangaroo of Australia. BOWEN ST In the space of three years, it has become one of 1 2 21 20 19 lost on earth is up on the moon and the man on the moon is 11 12 13 the keeper. Australia’s most notable mural cities. ST 18 2 COMMUNITY CANVAS THE ALAN & CITY Start your journey in Kent Street at the Maryborough Artist: Akos Juhasz JUNE BROWN 10 MARYBOROUGH HALL 14 15 GALACTIC HORSE Visitor Information Centre in City Hall and learn about Location: City Hall, CAR PARK Artist: Monika Bayer the baking of the historic Peace Cake and how the 388 Kent St STATE HIGH Free 48-hour RV Location: First floor of library 127-129 Bazaar St trail began. parking. Permits ADELAIDE ST The community SCHOOL BAZAAR ST Doubling down on the city’s link to the required from RICHMOND Then use this map to choose your favourites or walk canvas, now hanging 16 world’s most famous, fictional nanny, Visitor Information 7 MARCH ST the full trail where you will find a short story on each in Maryborough City 4 5 8 9 10 17 the second of Maryborough’s three Mary MARCH LN Centre. ST GUAVA piece of art and its significance to the city’s early Hall, is the combined 6 Poppins murals is also at the library. Avid development. work of many, funded by Fraser Coast Regional Council and readers of P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins ELLENA ST The trail is a flat walk over eight city blocks covering a facilitated by professional artist Akos Juhasz in December Comes Back, will remember the horse distance of about two kilometres. Take a break at the 2017. This mural provided an opportunity for everyone, with or as part of a galactic circus. Mary Poppins without artistic skills, to create an enormous painting about STATION many coffee and speciality shops, parks and places to SQUARE takes Jane and Michael to visit the night relax along the way. love, forgiveness, respect, honor, family, peace, empathy, sky where the animals were made of friendship and happiness – creating a vision for a beautiful SHOPPING stars instead of fur or feathers. Each year, future for our community. Historically the City Hall is a symbol of CENTRE Maryborough celebrates its link to the themaryboroughmuralproject ST LENNOX / Maryborough’s community spirit, at the heart of the city, and has author, who was born in the city in 1899, at W www.maryboroughmuralproject.org stood for 110 years as an important community meeting place the Mary Poppins Festival during the June-July school holidays. and a venue for social and cultural celebrations. E [email protected] ALICE ST Visitors come from across Australia to share in the fictional storytelling, which is a major part of the festival. 3 BRAVE LEXIE AND ‘FOXIE’ Artist: Brian Tisdall 3 11 THE BRUMBIES Maryborough’s Mural Location: Maryborough Fire Station, cnr Alice & Lennox Sts Artist: David Houghton Trail is a community This mural, placed poignantly 5 Location: 182 Bazaar St, ADDING HOPE TO THE JOURNEY PLAZA7 PRIME MINISTER FISHER project driven by local on the wall of Maryborough Fire Artist: Nigel Zschech Artist: Brian Tisdall side wall facing car park Elizabeth businesswomen, Station, recognises the bravery of Location: Above King Kong SHOPPINGLocation: Above awning, 144 Bazaar St Horses and cattle on the Lowrie and Deborah 12-year-old Lex Casperson, who Sales, 185 Adelaide St CENTREA founding member Fraser Coast were often Hannam, to create with his dog “Foxie” saved his Only 25 years after the world of the Labor Party in turned out to roam freely large-scale murals and two brothers and a sister from a movement was started by Queensland, Andrew in times of drought. With installations in the CBD house fire on 28 July 1927. The Chicago lawyer Paul Harris ALBERT ST Fisher held the seat others that escaped the of Maryborough as permanent, visual attractions for children were alone and after in 1905, the founding father of Wide Bay from 1901 muster, they would join the wild horses called brumbies. tourists and locals. being awoken by his dog, with of Rotary in Maryborough, to 1915. He served Some well-bred horses were also “bushed” in the 1970s to The women lead a grassroots organisation which has the house well alight, Lex helped Stewart Corser, launched as Australia’s Prime live out their lives when thoroughbred racing was abandoned enlisted the support of a very generous Maryborough. his siblings escape through the the first local club in 1930 and became its inaugural president. Minister and Treasurer 40 years ago. Today the land available for brumbies to roam Many artists have painted for free and others have smoke. “Foxie” was given a new collar and his young master This mural, at the time it was painted in 2015, marked 85 years for three terms from 1908 until 1915 and committed troops has considerably diminished with the majority cleared for been commissioned by local families, businesses and awarded the bronze medal for bravery by the Royal Humane of Rotary in Maryborough and 110 years internationally. It to fight in World War 1. During his tenure the Commonwealth pine plantations. Small numbers of wild horses still wander the Fraser Coast Regional Council. Society, in a ceremony attended by many of the townsfolk in the recognises Rotary’s contribution to humanitarian services, Bank and the Royal Australian Navy were established, a in areas such as the Tuan State Forest and often they can be Granville Shire Hall on 13 August 1927. Volunteers, businesses and members of the the maintenance of high ethical standards and the advance of referendum extended Commonwealth powers in industrial seen grazing by the road side. goodwill and peace. The Rotary emblem, depicted as the sun, community have met all other requirements from 4 matters and provisions for workers’ compensation was included the supply of paint, scaffolding, artists’ lunches, THE AVIATOR shines its light on all people in need. in social security laws. 12 COMET MAN Artist: Akos Juhasz, designed by Brian Tisdall accommodation and even crane hire. Artist: Nigel Zschech Location: Side wall of Dimmeys, 202-210 Adelaide St 6 8 Location: Maryborough Volunteers: Ashley Bowyer and Katrina Dollin THE WHIP CRACKER THE LEGENDS OF MOONIE JARL Aviator, garage owner and Artist: Shanay Scarlet Artist: Fiona Foley Fitness Health & Body (photography); Tracey Christoffel (sponsorships); Mal Maryborough Holden dealer, Location: On side wall, 144 Bazaar St Location: Entry, Maryborough Library, Works, Finlayson (site prep and installations); Tracey Gray Samuel William Hecker, was Barbara Dalton was part of the Dalton Family 127-129 Bazaar St 175 Bazaar St (events), Dawn Vanderwolf (research); Rai Whitten often in the news in the 1940s Whip Cracking Show which performed at the The Legends of Moonie Jarl, published Once the saying was (website, storyboards, plaques); Sharon Coyne flying his Miles Falcon aircraft Maryborough Markets. A whip cracker herself, in 1964 by Jacaranda Press, is the first “only in America” but (publishing); Jan Carlson (grants); and Yvonne Loveday regularly between Maryborough she would put a rolled up leaf in her mouth book written and illustrated by indigenous after the exploits of and Bronwyn Mendoza (administration). and Brisbane to attend meetings and let her husband and one of her sons crack it in half with Australians. Maryborough-born siblings amateur Maryborough Donations: The Mural Project exists only through of the Queensland Automobile a whip… and she never suffered any broken noses! One of her Wilf Reeves and Olga Miller tell the astronomer Mervyn Jones, donations.