23 Stopford Street, Wooloowin

It is likely this timber house in Stopford St (formerly Hill Street) was constructed in the late 1890s for Elizabeth Bing, a widow. Elizabeth Bing remarried in 1898 to Thomas Alcock. She sold the property to Florence and William Latham, a watchmaker with a store in Adelaide Street in 1905. A neighbourhood story of the house being washed down the river from Ipswich during the 1893 flood and relocated to Wooloowin is unlikely to be true.The house is an example of the homes built at Wooloowin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the area was developing as a middleclass suburb after the construction of the Sandgate Railway in 1882.