Showing posts with label Rogers Drive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogers Drive. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2020

History behind the naming of Rogers Drive and Motee Crt at Highfields

Have you ever wondered where the Street Names in Highfields for Rogers Drive and Motee Crt came from? Rogers Drive runs behind the Highfields Village Shopping Centre and the Highfields Cultural Centre and behind the Rogers Reserve from Highfields Road through to Polzin Road and Motee Crt comes off Merritt St (from Rogers Drive).
These street names are named after the former owners of this land, Mr & Mrs Charles & Motee Rogers who were well known Toowoomba Musicians and ran the successful Midlands Poll-Hereford Stud on the surrounding land many years ago. They were also part owners of "Rogers Bros" which was one of the largest Milk Vendors in Queensland and a Toowoomba business.
Mr and Mrs Rogers bequested the land for Preserve Charles & Motee Rogers Bushland Reserve at Highfields to the Crows Nest Shire Council after lengthy discussions and agreements, to ensure that this patch of remnant vegetation would be preserved for future generations to come. Mr and Mrs Rogers donated the rest of their land (which is now Highfields Village Estate) to the Royal Flying Doctors Service. They were very generous people. Out of respect for this generous donation and for the memory of Mr and Mrs Rogers we owe it to them as a community, to do whatever we can to continue to honour and preserve this environment and not forget about the significance of this bequest.

Motee Court and Rogers Drive street signs at Highfields, named after Charles and Motee Rogers.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Where did the timber Entrance Signs to the Bushland Reserve on Rogers Drive Go?

At the beginning of this year, while walking through the Charles and Motee Rogers Bushland Reserve at Highfields, I noticed the absence of the original timber entrance signage on the Rogers Drive side of the Reserve.  I clearly remember this signage and it also had a brochure holder the same as the one on the Community Crt Entrance on the rogers drive side also, which always had the original brochures in it for those visiting the reserve.

During the petition for the reserve and researching the full history, no one I spoke to could remember the signs on Rogers Drive and didn't know anything about it.  I was relieved today to discover these google street view images taken in 2008 which show the entrance signage to the Reserve on Rogers Drive.  While the images are slightly blurry you can see it on the left of the gravel entrance. You will notice also that one large tree on the left hand side of the gravel entrance has also been removed sometime in the last six years.

Any information on why this signage was removed (it has not been re-located within the reserve), why and where it is now would be greatly appreciated. It is possible that the sign was too close to the gravel driveway entrance for access vehicles at the back of the reserve, if this was the case, why was it not moved a little further to the left of the driveway?

Google Street View Image on the left from 2008 showing Original Timber Signage at Entrance to the Charles and Motee Rogers Bushland Reserve on Rogers Drive Highfields.  Image on the right shows the signage is no longer erected and also that one large tree on the left of the gravel driveway has been removed.

Google Street View Image on the left from 2008 showing Original Timber Signage at Entrance to the Charles and Motee Rogers Bushland Reserve on Rogers Drive Highfields.