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 Australia’s most notable mural cities. 11 12 13 18 the keeper. 2 COMMUNITY CANVAS THE ALAN & CITY ST 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. If you would like us to paint more murals Chamber of Commerce. An daughters would blow a bullock horn at the start and end of Butchulla creation stories of K’gari who found an unnamed and would like to contribute, please send your officer and aeronautics instructor in the RAAF, Samuel was a the show. Barb was born in Gympie in 1937 but the family soon (Fraser Island) – how the island and the comet at 6.15pm on 1 July 1967 simply scanning the western donation to: foundation member and president of the Maryborough Aero moved to Maryborough where she went to school and worked in birds, animals and plants were created sky using binoculars, you could be forgiven for saying “only in Maryborough Mural Project Club. He had a lifelong interest in the restoration of veteran cars the local bakery. She met and married Glen Dalton in 1956 and – as well as teaching children the important values of respect Maryborough”. Jones quickly switched to using his telescope BOQ and was the Queensland winner of the Round Australia Redex they raised six children. She also was a member of the Sporting and good manners. Because of the absence of Butchulla art in when he saw the mystery object which was eventually named BSB: 124080 Final in 1953. Samuel managed the family dealership for 50 Shooters Association. Barb died in 2015 and is remembered as countryside that is flat with no sandstone cliffs or caves, Olga the Mitchell-Jones-Gerber Comet – after the three people who Account Number: 22621596. years and held honorary positions in many local organisations. a generous and gracious woman. had to invent her own artistic style for the book. registered seeing it across the world on the same day. 13 THE GIRL AND THE CROC 17 THE DONG SISTERS 21 THE GOAT RACE 25 OUR WORLD 29 TUBBY CLAYTON Artist: Dan Krause Artist: Dan Krause Artist: Patrick Phillips Artist: Nigel Zschech Artist: Akos Juhasz Location: cnr Bazaar St and Location: Back wall of Location: Above Aussie Location: Rear of Telstra Location: Maryborough Horsburgh Ln Beemart, cnr Ellena & Punjab Indian Restaurant, building, 133 Wharf St Military & Colonial Museum, A photograph of a girl sitting Richmond Sts 360 Kent St (view from Queens Park) 106 Wharf St on a 4m crocodile at the turn of Ellen and Maud Dong Queensland was the place The indigenous tribes While serving in Belgium the century was the inspiration were the daughters of a for goats in the early living along the banks of as an army chaplain, for this street art project. It’s couple of Maryborough’s 1900s and they were used the Mary River used many Maryborough-born Reverend believed the photo was taken earliest Chinese migrants in races, as a source of names for the waterway Philip Thomas Byard “Tubby” after a crocodile was shot who arrived in the 1870s, food, for their skin and to but the Butchulla people Clayton co-founded Talbot House, (known as Toc H) as a unique in the Mary River by Walter originally in search keep the grass tidy. The called it Mooraboocoola. place of rest and sanctuary for British troops during World War McIndoe and displayed by the of gold. The women, cartoon-style mural depicts a major goat race at the Shamrock First settlers knew it as Wide Bay River. In September 1847, I. The sanctuary’s ethos was friendship, service, fairmindedness Cran family at their Iindah Sugar Plantation in 1903. Mclndoe born in their parents’ home in Queen Street, took over the Hotel in 1900. An estimated 600 people turned out to watch the Governor Sir Charles Fitzroy formally named the river in honour and the Kingdom of God, and a notice inside urged visitors and is said to have fired at the croc from his River Road property family business selling vegetables, plants and seeds to the spectacle. Apparently, Gallagher’s Billy won the double after a of his wife, Lady Mary Lennox, who was killed in a carriage all who entered to abandon rank. Clayton, who left Maryborough causing it to launch itself into the air and disappear. Sometime Maryborough community in 1915 and ran it until 1956. They vastly entertaining afternoon, highlighted by several goat carts accident three months later. Saddened by her death and a little and returned with his parents to England as a two-year-old and later, brothers punting timber down the river pulled the croc were the first agents to supply Yates seeds and sold them by veering off course or tumbling over and dumping their drivers in over a year later in January 1849, in a further link to Lady Mary, later studied in London and Oxford, cared for the needs of young from the shallows while investigating a strange smell. It was the sack loads to local farmers. They also imported fireworks the gutter. Sir Charles also directed that the name of Wide Bay Village men serving on the Western Front and was awarded the Military put on display and contributions to a collection box ingeniously (called crackers) from China and did a brisk business during the be changed to Maryborough. The mural symbolises the link Cross. The Toc H movement continues today. placed by Mrs James Cran raised significant funds for the local Christmas periods. They spent their later years at the Fairhaven 22 THE DOMESTIC FRONT between Lady Mary and the naming of the river and city. hospital appeal. Retirement Home. Ellen died in 1993 aged 101 and Maud passed Sculptor: Lisa Baier 30 THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN away the following year aged 95, having spent all of their lives in Location: Old Town Hall Arcade, 425 26 THE LADIES OF THE EXCHANGE Artist: Patrick Phillips 14 MARY RIVER TURTLE Maryborough. Kent St Artist: Michael Wortel Location: Artist: Michelle Valdivia All peoples face unimaginable human Location: Rear of Telstra Maryborough Military Location: Horsburgh Ln 18 MILKING TIME suffering and sacrifice during war. This building, 133 Wharf St & Colonial Museum, An endangered species, the Mary River Artist: Brian Tisdall sculpture was created to commemorate (view from Queens Park) 106 Wharf St Turtle was illegally collected and sold Location: St Vincent de the Anzac Centenary in 2016. The work The first country telephone This mural throughout the 1960s and 70s as pet “penny Paul, cnr March & Kent Sts reminds us of the tremendous fortitude, exchange in Australia was commemorates the turtles”. The turtle, one of the largest in The building featured in commitment and support provided opened in Maryborough in battle against the Australia with its upper shell growing to this mural, known locally by women domestically during those 1882. This mural on a brick North Vietnamese 40cm, occurs in the Mary River from Gympie as The Butter Factory, challenging times – the women who wall facing Queens Park is Army and Viet Cong to the tidal reaches just upstream from was constructed in 1910 “soldiered on” at home in Australia in the face of wartime more contemporary, showing telephonists working the manual by 108 soldiers of Delta Company 6RAR at Long Tan on the Maryborough. It is also found in Tinana on land purchased by the adversity. From a distance the woman appears to be a high exchange in the Post Office in 1958. The building has been home afternoon of the 18 August 1966. Outnumbered 20 to one Creek upstream from Talegalla Weir and Maryborough Co-operative ranking military official but on closer observation, her uniform to the automatic telephone services since 1960. The mural the Australian soldiers were saved from being overrun by may exist in the deeper holes of the Mary Dairy Association. For the consists of domestic objects including a colander for a helmet meets the objective of the mural committee to create art that artillery support and the crews of two helicopters from Nui below Kenilworth. The species breathes through its anus which next 80 years it produced cream, milk, butter and cheese for and sides of a cheese grater are used for epaulets. A copper- features not only the famous but everyday Maryborough people Dat who braved poor conditions to drop ammunition to the allows it to stay underwater for days when the water is flowing the surrounding district. During these decades milkmen went rust glaze has been applied to depict military camouflage who have played a part in the city’s history. beleaguered troops using helicopters that were originally and well oxygenated. The population is under threat from cattle out in trucks to meet customers who filled their glass jugs from clothing and minor expansion fractures have been enhanced transporting Little Pattie, Col Joye and the Joy Boys to entertain trampling their nests and goannas and feral animals eating the tap on the tank. By the 1970s and 80s, milk was packaged in to portray an aged and weathered centurion object. An 27 WHARF STREET, 1888 the troops. The battle in a rubber plantation resulted in the their eggs and is considered a critical priority for conservation by glass bottles with foil caps. The factory was closed in 1989 and accompanying coffin, surrounded by poppies, is dedicated to Artist: Terry Tomlin nation’s largest single-day loss of life in the war – 18 Australians the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. sold the following year. those who lost their lives. Lest we forget. Location: Inside Family killed and 24 wounded. The death toll on the enemy forces was Heritage Institute, officially put at 245 but many more deaths were suspected. The 15 RED BARON 19 COURAGEOUS CARE 23 OUT OF WORK 164 Richmond St mural features a number of the men who fought in the battle, Artist: Benjamin Higgins Artist: Craig Winter Artist: Patrick Phillips This mural depicts Wharf including company commander Major Harry Smith, who later Location: Horsburgh Ln Location: Kent St Location: Rear gate in Old Town Street as it was in 1888 settled in Hervey Bay. This mural does not depict the Medical Practice, Hall Arcade, 425 Kent St, during Maryborough’s World War I German fighter pilot 354 Kent St best access via Strong’s Arcade, boom period as a migrant but a flying ace of a different kind. Australia’s only Adelaide St port of entry. The great The Red Baron is the common outbreak of During the Great Depression sailing ship, Eastminster, name for the Urothemis Aliena pneumonic plague in 1935, 68-year-old miner had arrived on 29 January carrying the bells for St Paul’s Church species of dragonfly, found along is the subject of this Robert Brown packed his swag of England bell tower paid for by Edgar Aldridge as a memorial the Mary River and in the region’s mural honouring and headed south looking for work after failing to find a job in to his wife, Maria. The three-masted, iron ship (background lagoons and ponds. Medium-sized nurses Cecelia Bauer Maryborough. He mostly did fencing work on stations and made left, at Walker’s Wharf) made numerous trips to Australia and dragonflies, the Red Barons grow to about 45mm in length and Rose Adelaide a barrow to carry his possessions. Robert walked to Lightning New Zealand carrying immigrants but on her return passage to and have a wingspan of about 85mm. They’re usually found in Wiles who sacrificed their lives caring for the afflicted family of Ridge and is said to have found an opal worth 150 pounds but it Newcastle she was lost with all hands sometime after leaving Queensland and in the northern parts of Western Australia, the a wharf worker in June 1905. Absent father, Richard O’Connell, was stolen. He then worked his way to Canberra where he was Woody Island on 17 February 1888. The ship founded after being Thank you to our major sponsors: Northern Territory and New Guinea. rented a cottage at the corner of Sussex and Pallas streets and denied an aged pension. He reached Melbourne in March 1936, caught in a cyclone off Yeppoon on the Central Queensland his seven children slept on hessian bags on the floor, often before making his way to South Australia. He then struggled coast. The Captain, Daniel Rowland Rees, is said to have ignored 16 THE FERRY scavenging for food. The bags for sleeping came from ships across the Nullabor Plain with only half-a-dozen oranges for bad weather warnings. Artist: Kerry Nicholson that passed through the docks and it is thought rats carried food. His water gave out but he found a railway maintenance Location: 115 Richmond St the plague which spread through the O’Connell house. Along camp and eventually wheeled his barrow to the Perth Old Men’s 28 MARY POPPINS The first known ferry with the nurses, five of the seven children in the family and a Home, almost three years after he set off and after covering Artist: Steve Falco service to Granville was neighbour died in the outbreak. The authorities ordered the almost 10,000 miles. Location: Car park, a hand-operated punt family cottage be destroyed by the fire brigade. 147 Richmond St which ran from the bottom 24 ST MARY OF THE CROSS MACKILLOP This mural, based of March Street called 20 THE BREWER Artist: Patrick Phillips on the story of Mary Victoria Ferry - owned by Artist: Nigel Zscheck Location: St Mary’s Church Poppins written by P.L. Stewart Gordon and his Location: Above yard, 271-275 Adelaide St Travers, takes us on a journey in a make-believe world. See if son William. A similar awning, Home In 1870, the Sisters of St you can spot the Mary Poppins’ characters? A cherry tree with ferry started operating Brewing Supplies, Joseph, a religious order 17 cherries represents the street address, 17 Cherry Tree Lane, from Guava Street in the 278 Kent St founded by Mary MacKillop, where Mary works for the Banks family. There is the red cow visitfrasercoast.com area where the Granville Bridge was later built. This ferry was This mural tells established a school and which couldn’t stop dancing and Bert creating his pavement visitfrasercoast on Facebook replaced by the steam ferry, Alert, an iron punt, painted here, the story of residence in Adelaide Street, paintings, which transform into a ribbon shape as Bert and #visitfrasercoast on Instagram which was built by the Vulcan foundry and provided a 24-hour Polish migrant the beginning of the Catholic Mary step into the painting and have a tea party. Hidden in the service. Passengers wanting to cross at night would ring bells Louis Emmanuel Church’s formal education background is a carousel. If you look closely you will find the Visitor Information Centre locations: which were attached to piles on either side of the river to attract Steindl, who was born in 1851 and arrived in Australia in 1871. and religious administration in Maryborough. Mary MacKillop compass that Mary and the children found, along with the four Maryborough Maryborough City Hall, 388-396 Kent St, the attention of the night operator. Children often rang the bells Trained by his father, Louis opened the Bavarian Brewery in was born in Melbourne in 1842 and was declared Australia’s animals they met on their quick trip around the world. The Maryborough P 1800 214 789 for fun much to the exasperation of the man on duty. This ferry Granville in 1878. Three years later, he took on a partner and first saint, canonised St Mary of the Cross on 17 October 2010 seven stars represent the Pleiades, with the animals dancing at Hervey Bay 227 Maryborough-Hervey Bay Rd, Urraween served Granville residents for many years but as vehicular expanded his business, producing 120 hogsheads of beer a at St Peter’s Basilica, Rome. The arrival of the first parish the zoo in a grand chain for Mary’s birthday. And finally, there P 1800 811 728 traffic increased so too did public pressure to build the Granville week (one hogshead is about 242 litres). He died in 1913 with a priest Father Paul Tissot, who built the first Maryborough is Jane and Michael watching Mary float away on the westerly Bridge, which was opened in 1926. considerable fortune. Catholic Church, is depicted in the mural. wind… in a world where everything magical is possible. Copyright © Fraser Coast Tourism & Events Ltd