ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Mediterranean
No 4 Clayton Street is a single storey house is constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Mediterranean style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust bay and a curved flat roofed front porch. The porch is supported on Tuscan columns. The gable bay features a set of casement and fixed light windows under a sunhood. There is a central door flanked by a set of casement and fixed light windows. The walls are rendered with brick string courses. The roofscape features a rendered chimney.
HISTORY
1940 Birth on October 12, at Woodside Hospital, East Fremantle, to Mr. and Mrs. George Forbes, of Clayton street, East Fremantle—the gift of a son (Clement Joseph). Premature. Both well No visitors till October 21. (reference)
1947 Wanted, House or Flat, East Fremantle or Fremantle, excellent references. Apply 4 Clayton-st., East Fremantle. (reference)
1948 Lost, Trots, Saturday, black Pencil gold tipped. Please return 4 Clayton-st., East Fremantle, reward. (reference)
1948 Lucky Escape on Quay. When a winch slipped into neutral as it was lifting a cargo tray containing five cases of beer and a quantity of fruit and vegetables—a total weight of about 12 cwt.—alongside Victoria Quay yesterday. The tray fell about 6ft. and hit Leslie Tuxford (34), truck driver, of Clayton-street, East Fremantle, a glancing blow on the head. Without losing consciousness, he was taken to the Fremantle Hospital in a St. John ambulance and after treatment of head injuries was allowed to go home. Only a few seconds before he was hit he had moved from the direct path of the tray's fall. (reference)
1949 Two-Up Game Raided. Binoculars Used By Constables. How two plainclothes constables watched a game of two-up from a distance with a pair of binoculars before making a raid was revealed in evidence before Mr. R. P. Rodriguez, Special Magistrate, in the Fremantle Police Court yesterday when 13 men were convicted of having played an unlawful game in bush land off the Naval Base-road, Robb's Jetty. ...fines of £1 each with 4/ costs… Leslie Doran Tuxford, of Clayton-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1942 - 1947: Forbes, Geo
1949: Tuxford, Leslie D.
