Located on Moreton Bay in the suburb of Wynnum Central, 69 Hutton Avenue is the house in which Les grew up in Brisbane. The recent Cyclone Alfred was a reminder that 50 years ago the roof of this house was blown off by an anonymous cyclone.
They were not named in those days. Although exaggerated by the artist, the family home was one of the last in the street to succumb to subdivision and multiple dwellings. There are now two large houses where this one stood on its large block.
