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Kendal School / 1961 – 2013

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

Kendal School / 1961 – 2013 / Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow / The important thing is not to stop questioning / Albert Einstein
The ground
Kendal Reserve
The suburb
Burnside
The year
2014, 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 Kendal Reserve

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

143 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 101 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 25 September 2026
Water General 195 Grahams Road, Burnside · 1 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish 195A Grahams Rd · 1 August 2026
Fallen Tree Canterbury · 20 May 2026
Overgrown Vegetation Canterbury · 28 March 2026
Pothole 195 Grahams Road, Burnside · 1 March 2026
Pothole 195 Grahams Road, Burnside · 1 March 2026
Pothole 195 Grahams Road, Burnside · 1 March 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Kendal Reserve in Burnside, 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.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2014. 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/118881-kendal-reserve.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.