Those of you from Devon, and especially the Torquay area, might know of the village of Cockington. Well, Canberra has Cockington Green, which consists of (a) picturesque scenes of British countryside and (b) a collection of buildings from around the world sponsored by various embassies in Canberra, and the first collection is at a scale of of about 1/16. The second set of buildings are at numerous different scale because it's hard to model Machu Picchu at the same scale as the Triumphal Arch at Palmyra in Syria, Don Quijote's Windmills, Tenochtitlan Temple in Mexico, Persepolis in Iran, or Karlsteijn Castle in the Czech Republic.
The British models were taken from all over the country as the following pictures show: Devon, Sussex (Lewes), Midlands, East Anglia, the Scottish Highlands, and so on. There were also models of a soccer stadium with a game in progress - see if you can spot a streaker being apprehended by a cop whose helmet covers the former's private parts - a cricket match and a fox hunt, among others. The crowd watching the soccer match were also singing the kinds of songs one regularly hears at grounds. Also, see the model inter-city 125 train which Max enjoyed controlling and the Castle of Mar (which I first read as Max). All the models were set in beautiful grounds with carefully manicured lawns, miniature trees, and glorious flower-beds.
The following photos show some of the international exhibits. They had a miniature railway system running between the various buildings, this time with parallel tracks, and Max and I raced trains around the circuit. He won! Bec and I both visited one of the sites shown here. That was La Boca, a suburb of Buenos Aires and home to the famous soccer club Boca Juniors whose scarf adorns my office at UNE. The penultimate picture shows the cliff railway at Lynmouth in Devon - surprisingly included in the international collection as representing something quintessentially British by the UK High Commission in Canberra!
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The British models were taken from all over the country as the following pictures show: Devon, Sussex (Lewes), Midlands, East Anglia, the Scottish Highlands, and so on. There were also models of a soccer stadium with a game in progress - see if you can spot a streaker being apprehended by a cop whose helmet covers the former's private parts - a cricket match and a fox hunt, among others. The crowd watching the soccer match were also singing the kinds of songs one regularly hears at grounds. Also, see the model inter-city 125 train which Max enjoyed controlling and the Castle of Mar (which I first read as Max). All the models were set in beautiful grounds with carefully manicured lawns, miniature trees, and glorious flower-beds.
The following photos show some of the international exhibits. They had a miniature railway system running between the various buildings, this time with parallel tracks, and Max and I raced trains around the circuit. He won! Bec and I both visited one of the sites shown here. That was La Boca, a suburb of Buenos Aires and home to the famous soccer club Boca Juniors whose scarf adorns my office at UNE. The penultimate picture shows the cliff railway at Lynmouth in Devon - surprisingly included in the international collection as representing something quintessentially British by the UK High Commission in Canberra!
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