The
Mary Poppins Birthplace Parade Float
A website site that answers the question:
Where did Mary Poppins come from?
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The
Mary Poppins Birthplace Parade Float
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A website site that answers the question: Where did Mary Poppins come from? |
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At 1pm on Saturday 24th September 2005 at the Bowral Tulip Time Parade, the "Bowral Birthplace of Mary Poppins" float will be launched. The aim is use it at various parades and community events, both in the Southern Highlands and elsewhere, to increase the awareness of the special connection Bowral has with the Mary Poppins story and its author.
The parade float has been made possible with the support, financial and otherwise, of the following sponsors. BookTown Australia sincerely appreciates their contribution to the parade float and thanks them on behalf of the community. Please show your own appreciation by giving them patronage. Click on the name link for more information and contact details.
| TE Cabinets | Cabinet-maker, customised kitchens |
| Elf Signs | Signwriting |
| Southern HighlandsTheatre School of Ballet | Dance tuition - ballet, tap, jazz, latin... |
| Janeks | Coffee shop - Corbett Plaza |
| White Canoe | Coffee shop - Corbett Plaza |
| The Cheese Store | Specialist cheese shop |
| Jones The Grocer | Specialist grocery store |
| The Scoopful Bowral | The Natural Food Store |
| BiblioQuest International | Out-of-Print Book Searching |
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| Signwriter, Erl Fischer, at work on the billboards | Applying the lettering - and it was a spectacular result! |
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| Margaret Sherriff's dancers at rehearsal (that's Margaret being shy at the back right) | The project would not have been possible without the help and sponsorship of Tony Elias, pictured here with daughter (and sound manager!), Sarah. |
Click on one of the links below to find out more...
Latest News! Bowral Tulip Time Parade Features Mary Poppins Birthplace Float
Spit spot! Tell me the short version of the Mary Poppins Birthplace story please!
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
