Talk:South Canberra

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A few comments/questions about the notable/significant sections:

What is the diffrence between Places of note and Sites of significance?

• Bus shelter in Yarralumla - I believe burned down around 10 years ago.
• Patent offices - Is this a historic building as IP Australia is now at Woden?
• State Circle Road Cutting - I have a series of photos of this that I am in the proccess of splicing together and will hopefully upload at some time.
• St Christopher's school and convent - I thought the last remains of the original school was knocked down for the construction of the multi story carpark.

Other things that could be mentioned.

• Yarralumla brickworks
• Some mention of the embassies?

Also where did the Gazetted dates come from? The ACT government site lists Yarralumla as 1928.

--Martyman-(talk) 23:05, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

• I am working from Sites of Significance in the ACT, volume two, Inner Canberra published by the National Capital Development Commission in 1988 (borrowed from the library). It has the brickworks under a different section (Lake Burley Griffin rather than South Canberra?!) but I will include it when I get to that section. As it is 1988, not surprised some things are out of date - ie the bus shelter has burned down - but I mean to wander down and check. The shelter listed is on the corner of Schlich and Novar streets.

The Patent Office is now the Attorney General's Sir Robert Garran buildings.

Some of St Christopher's school was turned into the carpark but the building opposite Ali Baba's in Manuka is what I suspect they mean. I think it is now the Catholic Education office.

The gazetted dates are wrong I know. They came from User:Adz/CanberraSuburbsInfo#South_Canberra. He has in fact date first settled but that is not a very accurate term - what do we mean by "settled"? I intend to change to suburb gazettal and update the table.

This is very much work in progress. I don't like the look or length of the significant sites section. I don't know whether to put them into a table, categorise by location or by type - eg significant sites in Barton or significant buildings, geological sites, .... There is an overlap between significant sites and notable places but I suspect the ruin near the Mugga Lane tip is not a notable place but a significant site, whereas the Albert hall is both significant and notable. I am yet to reconcile Heritage listings too. I suspect the 1988 publication led to some of the listings in the Heritage register. --A Y Arktos 01:49, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, the bus shelter on Schlich and Novar was definately burned down a few years back. I never actually got the full story as to it's importance. What does the book say about it? Yes the building opposite ali babar is the convent, not sure if it was also used as the school. I do know the last little building that was on the site of the multistory carpark before it was knocked down was where my dad went to kindergarten.

Sounds liek this may end up being a significant amount of info. Have you considered splitting it off to it's own article and formatting it a prose? --Martyman-(talk) 05:45, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

included suburbs If south canberra only extends to red hill what is the rest of the Woden area and Tugeranong? I had always split canberra into 3 sections; the city or Civic, north or Belconnen/Gungalin and south or Woden/Tuggeranong.Fists (talk) 02:22, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

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Needs refs and pictures.--Grahamec 04:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

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