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This Feature Was Donated to the City of Christchurch

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

THIS FEATURE WAS DONATED TO THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH IN 1969 BY JOHN HEATON RHODES
The suburb
Riccarton
The year
2008, 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 Mandeville 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

1,169 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 961 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

General Request 32 Riccarton Rd · 5 October 2026
General Request 62 Riccarton Rd · 5 October 2026
Overgrown Vegetation Canterbury · 28 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish 77 Picton Avenue, Riccarton · 17 September 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Mandeville Reserve 57 Riccarton Road, Riccarton · 15 September 2026
Litter 69 Riccarton Rd · 7 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Mandeville Reserve in Riccarton, 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.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2008. 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/27127-mandeville-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.