By Jeremy Sollars
A highlight of last weekend’s Allora Autumn Festival was guided tours of the famed ‘Mary Poppins House’, by owners Les and Loraine Struthers. The former bank and manager’s residence was occupied in the early 1900s by Travers Robert Goff, whose daughter Helen Lydnon Goff – under the pseudonym of ‘P L Travers’ – was the author of the book ‘Mary Poppins’, with Mary’s story based on her early childhood in Allora…and in particular her experiences in the house at 61 Herbert Street…
