1. From 1903, the two-storey weatherboard Mt Royal family hotel overlooked over the beach from its 20 acre hillside site. It became the Clarendon Childrens Home (1945), was replaced by separate cottages and pulled down c.1976. Clarendon closed in 2006, and the land was subdivided. Mt Royal Hotel The KB Sailing Club began in 1954 and moved into its foreshore clubrooms c.1960. Just beyond it was Kingston’s first but short-lived jetty. Completed in 1888 it was washed away in a February 1895 storm. 2. No 42 The Esplanade contains the oldest known house in Kingston. Its builder, William Nichols, who farmed the 30 acres behind the beach from 1814, made every nail and cut and shaped every board in its original four rooms. The house passed to Billy Williamson, whose job was to tie up and collect fees from the ferries and barges using the jetty. The stables housed his eclectic museum, the Old Curiosity Shop. 3. Along the Esplanade (created 1886) are examples of the summer homes of Hobart’s wealthy business and professional families, built in the early 1900s. 4. On the Beach Road corner was the grand two storey, verandahed weatherboard Australasian Hotel, built by George Lucas in the 1880s from whaling money. Both its bar and its silver service Sunday lunch made it the hub of life at the beach until the 1950s. The 100m. long second jetty extended into the bay, in front. Jetty and Australasian Hotel 5. Opposite was the Kingston family’s two-storey home and store, complete with verandahs and door opening across the corner. It stocked everything – but was closed on Sundays, when beach kiosks supplied ice creams and cordials. 6. At No 29 The Esplanade was Weller Arnold’s summer home. He owned Arnold’s Biscuit Factory and Tearooms in Hobart - and the famous Victoria Sponge recipe. 7. The river near the footbridge was a favourite swimming spot, complete with diving board. Regular floods often changed its route to the sea. Fishing for rock-cod, bream and flathead was popular as was rowing up the river. 8. Westward Ho at 41 Balmoral Road belonged to Hans Christian Bjelke-Petersen (uncle of Sir Joh). It is a good example of the black, sump-oiled, vertical board summer homes ‘down the beach’. His Danish family emigrated to Hobart in 1891 but Hans moved to Sydney where he built up a chain of 160 Physical Education Schools. He spent summers at Kingston Beach and retired here. 9. Robert and Len Nettlefold lived at Nos. 33 - 35 and 9 respectively, their houses called Troon and St Andrews after the Scottish golf courses. In his 40s Robert, proprietor of Nettlefold Motors (later Motors) and an outstanding sportsman, discovered golf. He bought the land to create the KB Golf Course, moved to Balmoral Road and had a connecting footbridge built. He and his left-handed son, Len, become state champions with Len often playing for Australia. 10. No. 53 Beach Road, Rosebanks, was formerly the home of eccentric local doctor and cricket tragic, C N Atkins. He had a nurse run a five-bed maternity hospital here during the 1920s and ‘30s. 11. No. 46 Beach Road was home to another golfing family, the Toogoods. As club professional, Alf Toogood first lived in the cottage on the course. His sons, John and Peter, became representative golfers. In 1954 Peter defeated his brother John to win the Australian Amateur Championship – which generated the headline “TOOGOOD TOO GOOD FOR TOOGOOD”. 12.On the now Stihl site was an early ‘front room’shop that Colin and Alan Walton later developed into Kingston’s first large self-serve grocery store, until the 1970s. The store finally closed in 2003. 13. The red brick hall (built in 1933) replaced an earlier weatherboard one. It was home to dances and balls, socials and concerts, badminton, youth clubs, card evenings … Friday night meant Perry’s Pictures - watched from the ‘comfort’ of a wooden pew, through a haze of cigarette smoke. Beach Road c. 1910 14. The Citrus Moon on the Windsor Street corner was first the site of a holiday guesthouse, Northhampton House, that burned down inApril 1934. It was rebuilt as the Geeves’general store and then became the Young’s Yum Yum Tree, a health food shop.