Mount Lofty was formerly known as
Tick Hill. the house was occupied by his daughter Eleanor Sophia (Polly) Cocks who operated it as a boarding house (advertising it as having the health benefit of "
flu cured two days"). After her death in 1956, the house was demolished. A reservoir occupies the site today at 13 North Street (). Toowoomba State High School and Technical College opened on 12 May 1919, after the
Department of Public Instruction took over the
Toowoomba Technical College. In January 1962, it became Toowoomba State High School. On Saturday 14 August 1926, the Reverend William Goyen officially opened a Presbyterian Sunday School hall in Geoffrey Street, as an outreach of St Stephen's Presbyterian Church in Neil Street in the Toowoomba CBD. By 1927, it was being used for church services on a monthly basis and was known as the Geoffrey Street Presbyterian Church. In 1939, the hall was moved to a block on the south-east corner of Mary Street and Alford Street. On 12 November 1949, the foundation stone for the current church was laid by the Right Reverend William Frederick Mackenzie, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland. On Saturday 26 July 1952, the new church was officially opened as St David's Presbyterian Church by the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland, the Right Reverend Malcolm McDermant. The old church remains on the site and is used as a hall. == Demographics ==