264 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
This building at 264 Kent Street was erected in 1875 and was occupied by J H Bliss, a watchmaker and jeweller, who specialised in the supply and repair of maritime chronometers, barometers, sextants and navigational instruments. This business served the busy port of Maryborough during the 1880s. Visitors to the port may even have availed of Bliss' skills as a maker of artificial teeth. ...
212 Adelaide Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
A Touch of the Past is a shopping experience that offers antiques, jewellery and gifts. They are well known for selling antique furniture, collectables, glassware, chinaware, lovely gold and silver antique style jewellery, home sewn craft, giftware, reproduction handles and fittings and restoration products. Come and enjoy a Touch of the Past. ...
Wharf Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
The Maryborough Walk of Achievers in Richmond and Wharf Streets was developed in three years over five stages. These plaques honour the pioneers, Olympians and people from Maryborough who, through their achievements, have gone on to become extraordinary Australians in fields of education, government, culture and sport.
The walk also incorporates a Federation Walk in conjunction with the Centena ...
Cheapside Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
Once a favourite spot for aboriginal corroborees, the area is now a beautiful park, centred on the Ululah Lagoon. In 1852, the first land sales were held for the new town here, in a simple slab hut. Horse-drawn scoops were used to clear the lagoon to form Maryborough's first water supply in 1859. The lagoon is now surrounded by a walk and cycle path which is also frequently in use by the abundant ...
Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
Miss Janet Melville bequeathed the Fairy Fountain and Band Rotunda in memory of her brother Andrew who was Mayor of Maryborough in 1863. The entire structure was imported from Scotland in 1890 after the Hon. A. H. Wilson MLA saw it at the Glasgow Exhibition and acquired it as a suitable memorial.
In 1905, the fountain was moved from under the ornate roof of the rotunda to its present site to a ...
Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
Australia's only outbreak of the pneumonic plague was in Maryborough in 1905. This fountain, situated to the Lennox Street side of City Hall, is a memorial to the two Nurses Cecilia Bauer and Rose Wiles who courageously volunteered to nurse victims of the plague. Whilst looking after their patients both nurses fell ill and died from the deadly disease. ...
Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
Featured on Maryborough's Walk and Drive Tour - this rendered brick building, the Former Australian Joint Stock Bank, was built in 1882 for the Maryborough Branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank. The Union Bank occupied the building from 1906. The classic revival style includes an arched entrance and upper level Corinthian pillars.
In 1899 during the time her father was the manager of the b ...
64 Lennox Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
Brennan and Geraghty's Store, with adjoining residence and cottage, was acquired by the National Trust of Queensland in 1975 due to its historical commercial significance.
The large timber grocery store with masonry facade was operated by two generations of the same family for 101 years. The store was opened in April 1871 by Patrick Brennan and Martin Geraghty. The store traded through to 1972 ...
Sussex Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
The Maryborough Cenotaph was erected in 1922 with funds obtained by public subscription as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War. The memorial includes five Italian Carrara marble statues which portray the Army, Navy, Airforce and Nursing profession and Nike, the Winged Figure of Victory standing above them. The memorial gates and plaques were cast by the local Croydon Foundry. ...
Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
The Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens was the site of Maryborough's second official cemetery, which closed in 1873. As the town expanded the cemetery was deemed a public health risk, and by 1907, moves were made to remove headstones and remains to the new cemetery. In 1921, the land was converted to a public park, and now is full of beautiful rose gardens. ...
Ellena Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
Primary School students designed the pavers for the Ellena Street Pavement Art and Sculpture, with the theme being "I can find it in Maryborough".
Maryborough-born artist Susie Hansen designed the large sculpture in the street as a tribute to Maryborough industry. The sculpture is a fly wheel cut in half which was originally fitted to a single cylinder kynoch suction gas engine in the powerhou ...
Richmond Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
Maryborough's modern Excelsior Band Hall replaces the earlier hall destroyed by fire in 1987. It was designed in Victorian Style to compliment the precinct. The design choice also commemorates the length of time to which bands have added to the spirit and vitality of public occasions. Directly in front of the Band Hall is the George Ambrose White Car park, which was the site of the city's first in ...
Neptune Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
For a different type of experience, walk through one of the last remaining wetlands in the Maryborough area, Fay Smith Wetlands. There is a series of walking bridges and walking trails through the Fay Smith Wetlands, allowing visitors to enjoy the abundant bird life on offer. Fay Smith was a nature lover and photographer, along with her husband Ted. ...
560 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
The Maryborough Flour Mill was the most northerly flour mill in Australia when it was built in 1890, for the Maryborough Milling Company. In 1919, the Dominion Flour Milling Company who now owned the mill bought the remaining relic of Aldershot smelting works, the chimney. After having it dropped the recoverable bricks were used to build the smoke stack, the remaining bricks were then used to buil ...
297 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland 4650, Australia
The Royal Bank of Queensland opened its Maryborough branch in 1888 in this Kent Street building known as Windsor House. In 1922 the Royal Bank of Queensland merged with the Queensland National Bank. The building features the Baroque revival style with broken curved pediments atop the facade and above the entrance. ...
