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In Loving Memory / Maude and Ernie M'Ewan

A plaque at Elmwood Park, standing in Merivale. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

In loving memory / Maude and Ernie M'Ewan
The ground
Elmwood Park
The suburb
Merivale
The year
2013, the register’s commission
Rides on
seat
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Elmwood Park

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

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

228 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 192 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Flooding Canterbury · 29 September 2026
Water Leak 113 Heaton St · 14 August 2026
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet Heaton St near Glandovey Rd, Canterbury Region 8052 · 24 May 2026
Water Leak 43 Leinster Rd · 18 May 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park 15–21 Heaton St · 4 May 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Elmwood Park in Merivale, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the seat. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Are there others at Elmwood Park?

3 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2013. 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/112690-elmwood-park.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.