Canterbury Centenary / 1850 1950
A plaque at First Methodist Sunday School, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
CANTERBURY CENTENARY / 1850 1950 / ON THIS SITE THE FIRST METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL IN CANTERBURY WAS COMMENCED IN THE WHARE OF MR & MRS JOHN QUAIFE ON 1ST APRIL 1851 / DEDICATED 1ST APRIL 1951
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
219 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 188 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Park - General Request
Fallen Tree
Litter
Pavement - General
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public artQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at First Methodist Sunday School in Christchurch Central, 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 2009. 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/72401-first-methodist-sunday-school.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.