Worsley Cottage Museum Complex

04/03/2026

The new garden at Worsley Cottage is progressing.

02/02/2026

OUR MUSEUMS and GARDEN are now OPEN Tuesdays & Thursdays 10am-noon, and Sundays 2-4pm. We will love to see you!
OUR RESEARCH CENTRE is OPEN Tuesdays & Thursdays 10am-noon, but CLOSED on Sundays. Yes, CLOSED ON SUNDAYS.
Because the best use of research time always requires us to pre-research answers for you, please contact us well before your visit to discuss your Research needs. tw.

In Pratt's 1925/6 photo, the lower circle shows the Post Office, while the upper one shows Worsleys' Cottage, at near the bottom of the slope coming down from Bristol/Quartz Hill.

02/02/2026

OUR MUSEUMS and GARDEN are now OPEN Tuesdays & Thursdays 10am-noon, and Sundays 2-4pm. We will love to see you!
OUR RESEARCH CENTRE is OPEN Tuesdays & Thursdays 10am-noon, but CLOSED on Sundays. Yes, CLOSED ON SUNDAYS.
Because the best use of research time always requires us to pre-research answers for you, please contact us well before your visit to discuss your Research needs. tw.

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20/12/2025

DIGGINGS, DIGGINGS, DIGGINGS, DIGGINGS, DIGGINGS,

NOVEMBER EDITION of “DIGGINGS”..... our NEWSLETTER …., is now online, on our website, at www.mmhs.net.au It tells the story of the first 60 years of our Maryborough Midlands Historical Society, which now focuses more on the Maryborough and closer District areas.
To acknowledge the major new Hospital Development on the site of the original Maryborough Town Hall on the corner of Clarendon and Neill Streets, the newsletter also contains a large section on staff from our hospital who went to the Great (First) World War.

For all “Diggings” for the past five years, In our website www.mmhs.net.au, go to the Committee section, and scroll down to the edition you need. (An index of the content of these editions is currently being created, but given the range of topics, it will take some time to appear.) tw

Let's make our community a better place!

20/12/2025

OUR BEST WISHES to ALL OUR MEMBERS and FOLLOWERS for the FESTIVE SEASON. WE ARE now CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER.
WE RE-OPEN TUES. 3 FEB 2026 when STONE COTTAGE & SQUATTER MUSEUMS will open Tues & Thurs, 10-12, & Sun 2-4
History Research help is available at those times on Tues & Thurs, but NOT Sundays.
Please note that making appointments for research help in advance, by email to [email protected], is advantageous.

Please also note that the gradual removal of the content of this Page will continue, to eventually permit its amalgamation with our Maryborough Midlands Historical Society Page. Should you wish to save anything from this page, please do so soon.. tw Page ed.

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15/09/2025

OUR SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER "DIGGINGS," is now available for download from our website at: https://mmhs.net.au/committee Articles include:-
-Remembering Maryborough's long running, now extinct Wattle Festival,
-The compulsory removal of the town's over-footpath posted verandahs,
-An explanation of the two very different railway gauges which now run through Maryborough, and determine which trains, now and in the future, can come from and go to where, until eventually, long into the future, Victoria is fully installed with the “Standard Gauge”.
-The history of the memorial windows over the altar at Christ the King Anglican Church, (formerly Church of England) , on Nightingale Hill, Maryborough.
-Now the new Hospital upper stories are accessible, some new views over Maryborough are revealed. Because the Hospital is just to the north of the Fire Brigade Bell Tower, they are an interesting comparison with those taken more than a century before by Dunolly-Majorca- Maryborough’s wonderful William Henry Wong Ying, the man of many ideas and practicalities, whose Motor -Garage building still stands in Alma St. behind Nolan St.
-Some snippets from the Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser from 1905. Thanks yet again to our Editor/President/Museums Curator/Correspondent with the Landlord, Barb Nielsen. tw