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Kingston is the oldest and one of the most densely populated suburbs of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb is named after Charles Cameron Kingston, the former Premier of South Australia and minister in the first Australian Commonwealth Government. [2] It is adjacent to the suburbs of Barton, Fyshwick, Griffith and Manuka.
Reid. St John's Church is the oldest surviving public building within Canberra's city precinct, predating the establishment of the capital by almost 70 years. The Schoolhouse Museum within the church precinct displays items dating back to Canberra's rural past. The church building and surrounding precinct remains an active place of worship and ...
Typical Canberra public housing is built on a limited number of plans repeated through an area of a suburb, with two or three bedrooms and constructed in unfinished brick veneer. They typically range in size from around 80 m 2 to 130 m 2. The term Govie (pronounced guvvie) is a colloquialism used to describe the typical Canberran government ...
Coordinates: 35.3127°S 149.1461°E. View of Kingston Foreshore from Bowen Park. The Kingston Foreshore Redevelopment is a major urban renewal program in the suburb of Kingston on the southern shore of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, the capital of Australia. This meant that at the start of the 21st century, the layout of the lake was ...
Parts of Canberra formed the backdrop for Cold War espionage activity, highlighted during the 1954 Petrov Affair when a Soviet Union spy defected to Australia. Telopea Park in south Canberra was a known drop-off point for KGB spies based at the nearby USSR Embassy. This embassy was constantly monitored by ASIO agents based in the Kingston Hotel ...
Prefabs (prefabricated homes) were a major part of the delivery plan to address the United Kingdom's post–World War II housing shortage. They were envisaged by war-time prime minister Winston Churchill in March 1944, and legally outlined in the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944. Taking the details of the public housing plan from the ...
Coordinates: 50.6068°N 2.0796°W. Encombe House. Encombe House is a privately owned, Grade II* listed country house built in 1735 on the Encombe Estate near the village of Kingston and about 1-mile (1.6 km) inland of Dorset 's Jurassic Coast in southern England. The parkland is Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and ...
The Kingston Powerhouse is a decommissioned power plant in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is located in the suburb of Kingston, Australian Capital Territory. It now houses the Canberra Glassworks. The powerhouse was designed by John Smith Murdoch and constructed from 1913-1915, [1] when the planned city of Canberra came into being. It ...