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Maryborough Base Hospital is a heritage-listed hospital at Walker Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Colonial Architect John James Clark and built in 1887 by Robert Taylor. It is also known as Maryborough General Hospital. The current site of the Maryborough Hospital, which is the fourth hospital site, was established in 1887 when a complex of brick buildings was constructed to the design of Queensland Colonial Architect John James Clark. The hospital site has experienced many phases of development, most obviously in the late 1920s, the late 1930s, and in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Many of the individual buildings, dating from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are of cultural heritage significance. In 1854 a hospital had been established in Maryborough in Fort Street, and prior to this the sick and invalids were treated at home by a few medical practitioners who lived in the town. By 1859 a Committee of Management had established another hospital, near the new center of the town, at the corner of Ferry and Albert Streets, but was moved in 1863 to a site on the corner of Lennox and Walker Streets. In 1864 the hospital moved to its first purpose-built building on Lennox Street, near the corner of Sussex Street. A substantial two-storeyed brick building was constructed and a wing was added to this in 1865. In 1876 further additions were made to this site. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryborough_Base_Hospital#:~:text=M...

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church was constructed in several stages and incorporates the first permanent Roman Catholic church in Maryborough started in 1869 to a design of Charles Tiffin. The building was enlarged in two major stages of construction, the first in 1884-5 to the design of FDG Stanley and then in 1936 to the design of local architect, POE Hawkes.[2] St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, as it became known, was completed and opened at a service conducted by Father Tissot on 4 February 1872. The building was constructed by local contractors G Smith and J Thomas under the supervision of WN Davidson. When completed, the church was described as Early English and of brick with stone quoining and detailing. The building had a steeply pitched gabled roof clad with shingles. Side aisles extended the length of the four-bay nave and these were lined with double lancets. The plan incorporated a small porch, chancel, and two sacristies. Father Tissot landscaped the grounds surrounding the church and provided the chancel screen and other timber paneling carved by himself. He is thought to have been involved with the design of the high altar and the carved timber canopy, or Baldacchino above the altar. Provision was made in the design for the extension of the church at a later date.[2] Source: en.wikipedia.org/?curid=40038147

Fury erupted in Maryborough, Queensland, in December 1914 on the eve of the Maryborough Naval Band’s departure for Ipswich. A great scandal and the police investigation were enveloping one of the world’s best performers. I told a version of the story live on West Bremer Radio. The Maryborough Naval Band was making a concerted bid to win the 1915 Queensland Band Championship. But on the eve of the contest, one of its cornet players, nineteen-year-old Claude Elliott, was mugged and left dazed on the ground. Claude’s cornet was damaged, the mouthpiece thrown into a gully, and his music torn to pieces and placed in his pocket. The young man was discovered lying in the street twenty minutes later by the Maryborough baker. The band had pulled out all stops in a bid to win the coveted state title. Suspicion for the attack on Claude immediately fell upon members of the Naval Band’s main rivals – this was the civilian Maryborough City Band and the Ipswich City Vice-Regal Band. Claude recovered from the mugging and was able to play, but only after borrowing his conductor’s personal cornet. Once the competition got underway, the Ipswich police were on guard throughout the concerts at Queen’s Park to ensure that there was no repeat of the brutal attack. After days of competition, the winner of the Besson Shield, £100 prize money, and the champion band of Queensland that year was the Maryborough Naval Band – they took the honors from the Ipswich City Vice-Regal Band by just a solitary point. ..... Yet, this is not the end of the story. Check the website if you want to know what really happened. historyoutthere.com/2022/01/23/great-band-scandal-of-1915/