Most likely named after Sir Augustus Charles Gregory who lived at Rainworth House which now faces Barton Street Rainworth.

Gregory Street is almost a straight line from his house to the Town Council chambers. He was endearingly referred to as 'Gregory of Rainworth' after receiving his knighthood.

Sir Augustus Charles Gregory

Born: 1 August 1819 England. Died: 25 June 1905. Gregory was leader of the North Australian Exploring Expedition 1854-58 and Surveyor-General of Queensland 1859. His work relates to Australian geology and natural history as well as surveying. John Bray

This book is worth including in the 'further reading' section. HARD COUNTRY, HARD MEN In the Footsteps of Gregory Kieran Kelly Foreword by Janet Holmes a Court $24.95,Trade pbk, 288 pp, ISBN 0 86806 715 6

Sir Augustus Charles Gregory is arguably Australia's greatest explorer.

His 1855-56 North Australia Expedition was brilliantly led, produced the final pieces in the jig-saw map of Australia, solved the riddle of the inland sea, resulted in no loss of life, produced some of the greatest colonial art of the nineteenth century and made a prodigious contribution to the understanding of Australian botany.

In this book Kelly has intertwined Gregory's narrative with his own experience of mounting and conducting an expedition in 1999 along Northern Territory's Victoria River. Kelly believes that the Australian identity epitomised by the Anzacs was forged in the hardship of the Australian bush. Janet Holmes a Court, in her foreword to Kelly's book calls it: pragmatic acceptance of the heroic in the day-to-day ... and the grit to turn dreams into reality, which she sees both in Augustus Gregory and in Kieran Kelly's trek across her 'backyard'.

Named after Fewings who owned Karslake. See Fewings Memoirs.

Fewings owned the large house on the left in Sherwood Road before you get to Miskin Street. John Bray, President, Bardon Community Association.

JB Fewings, headmaster of the Petrie-Terrace School and chronicler of life in early Toowong. (Helen Gregory, Brisbane History Group, Papers No.9)

Most likely named after Sir Augustus Charles Gregory who lived at Rainworth House which now faces Barton Street Rainworth. Gregory Street is almost a straight line from his house to the Town Council chambers. He was endearingly referred to as 'Gregory of Rainworth' after receiving his knighthood. John Bray

Also Gregory Park Milton and maybe Gregory Terrace and Gregory River. His brother was an explorer in Western Australia so many landmarks bear the family name. John Bray

This book is worth including in the 'further reading' section. HARD COUNTRY, HARD MEN In the Footsteps of Gregory Kieran Kelly Foreword by Janet Holmes a Court $24.95,Trade pbk, 288 pp, ISBN 0 86806 715 6

Originally called Moggill Road.

Moggill Road originally started in the central City but got called "The River Road" which later became Coronation Drive after the Coronation of King George and the section in Toowong Village became High Street when the ornamental planting was done up the centre so it now starts at St Thomas Church. John Bray, President, Bardon Community Association.

Named after Letitia Jephson who lived at Mallow. House was built by a Mr Bennett. Prue Firth

Jephson Street was previously Church Street. There were at least four churches in the street at one time. John Bray, President, Bardon Community Association.

Samuel Williams Jones was born in Wales, 1838.

He arrived in Brisbane on the sailing ship "Wanata" in 1863 and married Emily Amos at Dalby in 1865. S.W. Jones established himself as a blacksmith and wheelwright in the township of Condamine 1866-78 beside the Condamine River.

A replica of his bell 6 feet in height has a plaque on each side. One plaque chronicles the history of the area from 1856 and the other tells of S. W. Jones, maker of the now famous Condamine Bells.

The monument was unveiled on 17 September 1977 to salute Jones and the pioneers that used his bells. S. W. Jones left Condamine for Toowong in 1878, and built a smithy at the rear of his shingle-roofed cottage at 23 Maryvale Street, Toowong. [Toowong Estate, Parish of Enoggera, Resub 37 of subs 45-46 of Portion 248 granted to J. C. Laycock in 1875].

Here he continued to make bells for 34 years. He died aged 88 years on 30 April 1927 and was buried in Toowong Cemetery. S. W. Jones was a councillor on Toowong Shire Council 1881-1885. John Bray

Named after William Land, a master butcher in the High St, with a residence in Sylvan Rd, who established a significant wholesale and retail meat business. He was also prominent on the Toowong Town Council, serving as Mayor several times, and was active in local philanthropic causes. He died in 1933. Courier Mail of 3 Jan 1933 Read Obituary

Mrs Lewis said that Landsborough Parade used to be called Paradise Avenue. She said that the lane ran behind the hotel. It could have become the road leading up to the bottle shop. According to Mrs Lewis the lane lead to the Cobb and Co Stables, which were behind the hotel.

Landsborough Pde is quite possibly named after a Miss FW Carr who lived in Burns Road and married a Mr Landsborough. John Sinclair
OR
Named after William Landsborough, explorer, who lived at Toowong in the 1870s in a house called Curragbawm. (Helen Gregory, Brisbane History Group, Papers No.9)

Old maps show it once was three Streets Paradise Avenue next to the Regatta boathouse, then Landsborough Street, then Theresa Street alongside the rail line. There never was a Cobb and Co stables behind the Regatta. The hotel was built after they lost the mail contract in 1875 to the railways and they travelled from South Brisbane via Rocklea to Ipswich. John Bray

Named after WH Miskin who lived in Dovercourt for many years, (land bordering the road). J.&J. Bigge, Dovercourt.

Miskin was an early landowner in the area. In the 1950's Miskin Street was dirt, as were most streets in West Toowong. My mate lived at the foot of Miskin Street. It was great fun to watch cars sliding every where in wet weather. Billy cart racing down the street was quite a thrill. Gower Street was even better. John Bray, President, Bardon Community Association.

Okeden Street was named after the Commissioner for Police and later Protector of Aboriginees, William Edward Parry-Okeden.

His grandaughter said his biography makes brief mention of Ascog House. Perry, Charles, 1926,'A Son of Australia'. " moved to the then sparsely populated and exclusive suburb of Toowong" "close by his lifetime friend Henry Stuart of Stuartholme" Henry Stuart was godfather of her father.

The book says he lived in the house for a short period when the subdivision of the Ascog House estate was taking place. The street was named in his honour. His grandaughter is unsure of how long or when he lived in the house but guesses it was during the 1880's. Her father born in 1874, remembered living in the house. They built a very substantial home at Kedron which is now centered in a retirement community. John Bray

Probably named after Sir Arthur Palmer, owner of the estate in the 1800s and early 1900s.

In the 1950.s there was the remnants of a derelict house where the Toowong High School now stands. The land was just overgrown bush which we called "Palmers Paddock". There were horses kept there but the house was vacant. On the other side of the Creek was a Chinese Market garden facing Vera Street, which is now included in the school grounds. John Bray, President, Bardon Community Association
Contact Arthur Beau Palmer

Sandford Street, currently in St Lucia, used to be in Toowong and was the site of Richard GaileyÕs original house Glenolive. The house and grounds were purchased by Dr Sandford Jackson in 1901 as his family home. He subdivided some of the grounds in 1921, and Glenolive and the remaining grounds in 1924. The new road created was originally named Glen Olive Drive but was renamed Sandford Street in 1943. [Peter Brown]
It was originally called Glen Olive Drive, because of the grove that grew there.

Jackson actually resigned from the Brisbane Hospital in 1898, and ran a private practise in Wickham Tce for three years. Then in 1901 he purchased St HelenÕs hospital in South Brisbane, and travelled each day between Glenolive and the hospital for the next twenty years or more. [Peter Brown]

You are probably aware that the Toowong Street got named around the time of the relief of Khartoum. It probably was the centrepiece of a Soudan Estate. Part of the land subdivided by Joshua Jeays in present Bardon, then Paddington was called the Soudan Estate.
I met a lifetime resident of Warburton Street (formerly Main Street) who said her address 1920's was written as Main Street, Soudan Estate, Paddington. You will have seen streets in Gordon Park have names such as Khartoum,Victoria and Gordon. John Bray

Soudan Street on the Ivy Estate (in the West Toowong area) which was first advertised for sale in 1884, is the old spelling of the Sudan in Africa (Ivy Estate plan, JOL). (Helen Gregory, Brisbane History Group, Papers No.9)

Previously known as Cemetery Road. Leigh Chamberlain

Sylvan Road ran from a railway platform where the Scout hut is now to the cemetery gates. Coffins were unloaded of the train and taken by horse drawn hearse to the cemetery. John Bray, President, Bardon Community Association

A newspaper article in 1930 described Toowong as a 'sylvan suburb'. Not surprisingly, therefore, there is a Sylvan Road in Toowong. (Helen Gregory, Brisbane History Group, Papers No.9)

"Also in the centre of portion 13 is … James Valentine (13-59-16/17)
James was elected to the Toowong Shire Council in 1885.
He was described by contemporary J. B. Fewings as “an intelligent and shrewd man of business”. A street which runs off Milton Road is named after him. He died on 17 Jan 1904 aged 51." Sandy Horne

The first Wool's to arrive in Brisbane were Margaret Elizabeth and Eliza Wool both born in London, who arrived in Brisbane on 28th January 1862 aboard the ship "Jessie Munn".

In late 1863 their mother Mary Ann Wool, brother Leonard John and his wife Mary Ann Frew, and younger brother John Lover Wool also all of London, England arrived aboard the "Fiery Star". Mother Mary Ann died a few months after arrival and was buried in the Paddington Cemetery.

John Lover Wool was 11 years old when he arrived in Queensland. We don't know at this point where he spent his early years but by 1874 he had married Mary Ann Cunnington. In the Queensland Post Office Directories from 1892 - 1897 the Wool family is living at Church Street Toowong although there is an earlier entry in 1888 at Maryvale Street.

In any case the family were fruiterers or involved in the fruit and vegetable trade. At the time of Mary Ann (Cunningtons) death in 1911 they are living at Maryvale Street Toowong which is quite close to Wool St. We don't know when Wool Street came into being but we assume it was named for John Lover and/or wife Mary Ann.

Mary Ann seems to have been quite a formidable woman and in her will it lists two properties owned by herself. John Lover Wool and wife Mary Ann are buried in the Toowong Cemetery as are many of thier nine children. Pat Wales