Amelia Frances Rogers
A plaque at Amelia Rogers Reserve, standing in Burwood. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
Amelia Frances Rogers (Nee Inwood) / 1848 – 1928 An early resident of the Burwood district Frances Rogers occupied the house previously sited on this reserve and which was demolished in 1993. Postmistress for Burwood 1891 - 1898 and 1908 - 1928 Frances Rogers operated a shop and library from her home in addition to telephone and telegraph services. / Always dressed in black, Frances Rogers was described as a strict woman but kindly and devout.
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.
In 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
360 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 308 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Animal - Deceased
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Poles and Signage - General
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Park - General Request
Dumped Rubbish
Sewer General
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public artQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Amelia Rogers Reserve in Burwood, 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 plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2003. 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/51436-amelia-rogers-reserve.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.