www.mary-poppins-birthplace.net	Literary Prize and other projects
	A website site that answers the question: Where did Mary Poppins come from?

The Cherry Tree Trust, established by the Estate of PL Travers, author of the Mary Poppins stories, is a philanthropic foundation based in London. Following approaches to the Trust by the President of the Bowral Chamber of Commerce, Terry Oakes-Ash, and the Convenor of BookTown Australia, Paul McShane, advice has been received that prize money for a creative writing competition for youth will be made available by the Trust for the Bowral region. The assistance of longtime friend of PL Travers, Patricia Feltham, was also instrumental in gaining that support from the Trust. It is anticipated that the competition will be held in conjunction with the 2006 Australian Festival of the Book (April-May).

The City of Maryborough, in Queensland, where PL Travers (or Helen Lyndon Goff, as she was then) was born is also a recipient of financial support from the Cherry Tree Trust for a similar purpose.

More information will be made available on this page as it is obtained.

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Acknowledgements: The content on this website is indebted to many sources and attribution is given where possible. In particular, it draws on the biography of PL Travers by Valerie Lawson Out of the Sky She Came (1999) and conversations with a longtime friend of P.L. Travers, Patricia Feltham. But no inference should be drawn that this or any other attribution indicates endorsement by those individuals of the website's content. In particular, neither individual is making the claim that Bowral is the birthplace of Mary Poppins. Responsibility for that claim and all the website content is accepted by Paul McShane, Convenor - BookTown Australia info@booktown.com.au