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It's the Mary Poppins' author's father's bank ... !!

Streetview (see Mary Poppins statue) - goo.gl/maps/zKUdjhUAKvN2

P. L. Travers -
"Helen Lyndon Goff, known within her family as Lyndon, was born on 9 August 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Her mother, Margaret Agnes Goff (née Morehead), was Australian and the sister of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland from 1888 to 1890. Her father, Travers Robert Goff, was of Irish descent and born in 1864 at Queens Road, New Cross in the Borough of Deptford, south-east London, England[2]. He was unsuccessful as a bank manager due to his chronic alcoholism, and was eventually demoted to the position of bank clerk.[3] The family lived in a large home with servants in Maryborough until Lyndon was five years old, when they relocated to Allora in 1905. Two years later, Travers Goff died at home at the age of 43.[4]

Following her father's death, Goff, along with her mother and sisters, moved to Bowral, New South Wales, in 1907, living there until 1917.[5] She boarded at Loreto Girls School in Normanhurst, a suburb of Sydney, during World War I.[6]... "
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._L._Travers

It was Travers' birthplace in 1899 - www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/birthplace-o...

In 2005 via Sophie18

beachcomber australia It's been a long time since I've played the Mary Poppins spotting game!
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/pellethepoet/galleries/72157626871570111/]

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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...

The Maryborough School of Arts was constructed in 1887-8 to the design of Melbourne and Adelaide architect, John Grainger. The substantial two-storeyed rendered brick building replaced the first Maryborough School of Arts which was a small brick building constructed in 1861 soon after the establishment of a local School of Arts committee in 1860. The contract for the construction of the School of Arts was let on 1 March 1887 by local contractors, Jacob and John Rooney (J&J Rooney) and the final construction cost was £3500. The foundation stone for the building was laid on 3 June 1887 in an elaborate ceremony. The building is prominently located on Kent Street adjacent to the new City Council Chambers and opposite the 1906 Town Hall. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/5-heritage-listed-buildings-maryb...