Story Trail

Discover the art of storytelling and follow a delightful trail of public art and multimedia, created by our local artisans, that magically bring our stories to life.

"There is a tradition of storytelling here in Maryborough, our people are artisans of this ancient craft. All of the yarns, the tall tales and true, we keep within our Story Bank. The town around us is latticed with stories, a web of words, of people, of place.

When we listen closely in the quiet places of this old city, in the landscape that still contains the traces of everything that has ever transpired upon it, we might just hear the echoes of voices, see the result of labours, and sense the character of the many people who have all played their part in the Maryborough story.

They are the living memories, who know that the story never ends – that there is magic to be found, with every step we take, into the new stories of the future. They may have lived “once upon a time”, but the place is still here."

Ian Brown, writer and storyteller

The birth of Mary Poppins

Creative young storytellers

Mary Poppins Children's Art

The birth of Mary Poppins

PL Travers

Many marvellous Marys

The Proud Marys

Practically perfect

Mary Poppins sculpture

A park fit for a queen

Beginning of new growth

John Carne Bidwill

A Park fit for a Queen

Queen's Park, Maryborough.

A Man with Vision

Richard Bingham Sheridan

Queen's Park celebrates 150 years as a botanic garden

Queen's Park celebrates 150 years as a botanic garden

Trading tales

The art of window shopping

Window displays

Paint the town

Earles Paints

The enterprising sisters

The Gregory girls

Follow your luck

Thelma Fagg

Motoring through history

Tarrants Motor Works / Tarrants Ford

The drapery men

Maryborough's barometer of the city's style, fashions and fortunes.

Sacred stories

A Blessing for the Town

Father Paul Tissot - St Mary's Catholic Church

For whom the bell tolls

Edgar and Maria Aldridge

A bustling port city

MV Ella - a passion for maritime history

The M.V. Ella is believed to be the oldest surviving vessel which had remained on the register of the Port of Maryborough for its entire working life.

New Customs | Stories from Custom House

The Maryborough Storyteller, Ian Brown paints a vivid picture of what it was like to be a new arrival to the port of Maryborough during it's heyday.

Those Mythical Tunnels | Stories from the Bond Store

He didn’t mind a tipple himself, and they talked of the old days, the smugglers, and opium dens, and so on...

Floods and triumphs

Since early settlement, the Maryborough community has put aside individual concerns to show great solidarity, compassion and tireless effort to recover from devastating floods and rebuild the city.