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Kingston

About Kingston

Kingston City was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1953. It was located in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Kingston riding.

On the show โ€” 13 mentions total

London Bridge was the only one east of Kingston, which is a lot of river with one bridge across it, so they were massively important. Loads of their trade came from transporting people to the theatre.

from 463: No Such Thing As An Especially Attractive Barge, 2023-01-27 at 00:47:54 ยท read transcript

Other times Kingston came up

  1. Then the biography for him says, surprised historian, not surprised eels. He's a medievalist at Cornell University. He's done a map. He's done an interactive map of the UK. You can look on it and you can click to see where your nearest local eel rent was. I looked and it's about four miles from where I grew up, Kingston. There was a rent of 125 eels. Wow. Yeah. It's really interesting.

    303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column, 2020-01-10 ยท listen

  2. There are so many. If you look up Monopoly, and if you're attempting to find facts about it, then half the news results are different places, you know, Kingston upon Thames is getting its own Monopoly set. I wonder, I do wonder what the advantage of this is, or whether they franchise it or whether, because it seems like no one, you know, I used to live quite near Kingston, I didn't want a Kingston Monopoly set.

    319: No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly, 2020-05-01 ยท listen

  3. It was after she'd gone to nursery, then I put it on. You skinned up a doobie and it? Because apparently that's what was originally the big thing was students sort of like Kingstone. When it started I was a student and we used to get up at like 11 o'clock in the morning like students do and just put telitubbies on and watch that. Every morning we used to do that.

    607: No Such Thing As Teletubby TikTok Tummies, 2025-10-30 ยท listen

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