Lyttelton Gaol on This Site Stood the Infamous Lyttelton
A plaque at Oxford Street Reserve, standing in Lyttelton. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
LYTTELTON GAOL ON THIS SITE STOOD THE INFAMOUS LYTTELTON GAOL BUILT IN 1851 AS A WOODEN LOCK-UP LATER DEVELOPED INTO THE SOUTH ISLAND'S MAJOR PENAL INSTITUTION JAMES MCKENZIE THE NOTED SHEEP RUSTLER SERVED TIME HERE IMPRISONED HERE 1855-56 SEVEN MEN WERE HANGED WITHIN THESE WALLS 1868-1918 THE GAOL WAS DEMOLISHED 1922
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
Erected in Grateful Memory of Charles Hazlitt Upham Mrcs
Opened 1928 F. E. Sutton MayorIn 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
1,581 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Water & drains, 1,348 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Pothole
Playground Equipment
Facility - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Public Toilet
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Overgrown Vegetation
Road Signage
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Facility - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Oxford Street Reserve in Lyttelton, 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.
3 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2008. 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/619-oxford-street-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.