In Memory of / William Boag / Founding Father of Burnside
A plaque at Burnside Park, standing in Burnside. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
IN MEMORY OF / WILLIAM BOAG / FOUNDING FATHER OF BURNSIDE / 1828 — 1904 / William Boag arrived on the ‘Cornwall’, 10 December 1851 from Braco, Scotland. He finally settled on this land naming it ‘Burnside’. The farm grew to approximately 700 acres including Avonhead. / William Boag was well respected in the community, farming circles and well known in Australasia for his Redshire blood stock stud, breeding and importing. / William Boag is buried in the Addington Cemetery on Selwyn Street, Christchurch. This memorial was placed by his descendants in 2005.
The register’s own frame
The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.
Where it stands
The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.
The ground’s other names
Ralph L. Buckenham / 1918 — 1994 / Frith PlaceIn the archive
A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.
The ground under it
The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →
Around it
The reports nearby
495 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Rubbish & dumping, 388 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Park - General Request
Pavement - Damaged
Public Toilet
Playground Equipment
Playground Equipment
Litter
Dumped Rubbish
Park - General Request
Pavement - Damaged
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Burnside Park in Burnside, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.
The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the rock. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
2 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2013. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.
This page as markdown: /plaque/112474-burnside-park.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.