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Union Bank in Maryborough, 1906

from State Library of Queensland

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• beachcomber australia said:

  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

• beachcomber australia said:

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

• beachcomber australia said:

  In 2005 via Sophie18
  

• pellethepoet said:

  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/]

• beachcomber australia said:

  ^ ^ Hilarious! ^ ^