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From the air

aerial view of Back in Time and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Back in Time

A sculpture on the city’s public ground: standing in Addington.

On the map as
sculpture
The suburb
Addington
Register places near it
1
The maker
Stuart Sinclair
Made of
metal

Where it stands

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position, the strong outline is the suburb the map puts it in, the rest are its neighbours.

On the register nearby

Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the monument, not the monument itself unless the register says so.

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

375 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 259 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Road Signage 11 Deans Ave · 17 September 2026
Pothole Deans Ave · 16 September 2026
Water Leak 3 Pope Street, Riccarton · 25 August 2026
Fallen Tree 17–19 Lester Ln · 18 August 2026
Dumped Rubbish 19–23 Lester Ln · 20 July 2026
Pothole 3 Deans Avenue, Addington · 3 July 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Blenheim Rd · 25 April 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Back in Time?

A sculpture in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Addington. The map credits Stuart Sinclair.

Where does Back in Time stand?

In Addington, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps 1 place within 300m of it.

Is the pin on the map exact?

It’s OpenStreetMap’s position, a surveyed-looking point, but a volunteer map’s one. Nearby ground and register places are neighbours, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the tags are OpenStreetMap’s, a named node or way tagged memorial or artwork inside the city boundary (ODbL). The maker, material and date fields are the mapper’s own, kept verbatim; a listing is a lead, not a catalogue record.

This page as markdown: /memorial/back-in-time.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.