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Christchurch / City Council Your People Your City

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

CHRISTCHURCH / CITY COUNCIL YOUR PEOPLE YOUR CITY
The ground
Ferrymead Park
The suburb
Ferrymead
The year
2013, the register’s commission
Rides on
wall
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Ferrymead 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

468 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Water & drains, 389 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak 310 Bridle Path Rd · 8 October 2026
Water Leak 279 Bridle Path Rd · 6 October 2026
Water Leak 279 Bridle Path Rd · 2 October 2026
Water Leak Ferrymead Reserve 285 Bridle Path Road, Ferrymead · 1 October 2026
Water Leak 279 Bridle Path Rd · 29 September 2026
Facility - General Request Ferrymead Park North Ferrymead Park Drive, Ferrymead · 25 September 2026
Water Fountain Canterbury · 25 September 2026
Water Fountain Canterbury · 31 August 2026
Water Leak 275 Bridle Path Rd · 25 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Ferrymead Park in Ferrymead, 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 wall. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Are there others at Ferrymead Park?

2 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/113578-ferrymead-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.