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Clifton Street, Wilston

Clifton Street is a residential street in Wilston, an inner city suburb of Brisbane approximately 4km from the CBD. The housing in the street is predonimantly of the Queenslander style, that is timber homes originally built above the ground on timber stumps.

History

The early history reported below is based on information contained in the book 'Windsor Wakens: Residents and Notables of the 1860s' by Beres McCallum and published by the Windsor and Districts Historical Society.

The area in the vicinity of Clifton Street was purchased by David Brown from M. O'Neill in 1866 and comprised 22 acres. That appears to be the area which today is bounded by Newmarket Road to the North, Vardon Street to the East, Murray Street to the West and Enoggera Creek to the South. The western half of Clifton Street runs East to West from Vardon Street to Murray Street along a ridge being the highest land of the 22 acres. The eastern half of Clifton Street runs between Vardon and Granville Streets and sits on the parcel of land, known as Darrama, purchased by Brown in 1872 from Charles Tiffin, the Colonial Architect for Queensland. Tiffin sold the land in order to return to Sydney.

Brown built a substantial home which he named Langley Bank (after his family home in Scotland) on the high land between Newmarket road and the creek, roughly where Clifton Street is located between Murray and Vardon Street. A photograph of the home taken from an elevated distance to the North clearly shows the home to be a substantial one and to sit on the ridge top where Clifton Street is located.