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Maryborough railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Lennox Street, Maryborough, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the North Coast line serving the city of Maryborough. It was designed by the Chief Engineer of the Queensland Railways Department and built from 1878 to 1890 by John Roddam & John Walker. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. Maryborough railway station opened in 1878 when an eight-kilometer branch into Maryborough was built as part of the North Coast line. It was built as a terminal station.[5] Beyond the station, the line continued to service the Walkers Limited (now Downer Rail) railway workshops and Mary River wharf. An air raid shelter was built into the station during World War II for the protection of the staff in case an air raid occurred. The station is a single-storeyed, timber-framed building, set at ground level. It is clad in chamferboards and has a gabled corrugated iron roof. The rear roof extends over the original station platform and is supported at its outer edge by unusual tapered stop-chamfered timber posts with octagonal capitals and strut brackets. The main front entrance consists of a projecting gabled portico supported on pairs of timber posts and features a timber arch and gable infill. A central passageway leads through the station to the main platform behind the building. There are skillion-roofed front verandahs, partly enclosed on the southwest side, either side of the portico. These verandahs have stop-chamfered posts and timber strut brackets that match those of the station platform. There is an extension at the southwest end of the station with skillion-roofed structures and a bracketed hood over the front windows. A separate timber-framed ladies waiting room and toilets with a gabled roof adjoin the north-east end of the station building. This has a domestic-scaled post-supported awning linked to the rear station platform. There are new male toilets in the former cloakroom. A World War I railways honor board is located at the rear of the station beside the ticket office. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryborough_railway_station,_Queens...

HM Customs House Located on Richmond Street, this solid brick building was completed in 1900 to replace a building which had been seriously damaged by the flooding of the Mary River in 1893. It features a coat of arms and is a fine example of the elaborate brickwork which was commonplace at the end of the nineteenth century. Maryborough got its first customs officer in 1859 and this building remained a Customs House until 1987. It is Heritage listed. The entry explains: "In January 1899, AB Brady the colonial architect called for tenders for the construction of a customs house and residence in Maryborough. The tender of local contractors, Henry Neale and Son, was accepted with work to be completed within 12 months. The final cost of the two buildings was £5956 and they were constructed of locally made brick on concrete foundations with Marseilles roof tiles. The Customs House was single storey with a long room, offices, strong room and toilets. The residence was a two storey building with six bedrooms and wide verandahs allowing sweeping views of the river ... The building has been attributed to the architect, John Smith Murdoch who was an architect in the Department of Public Works in Queensland, under the leadership of AB Brady." Source: www.aussietowns.com.au/town/maryborough-qld

Y I K E S !

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!
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