Shand Reserve – John Shand, Arrived From Chester, England
A plaque at Shand Crescent Reserve, standing in Riccarton. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
SHAND RESERVE – John Shand, arrived from Chester, England on the Isabella Hercus in 1851 with two sons Charles and Thomas. They lived in tents while building a sod house and draining their 100 acres to farm. Daughter Catherine soon joined them. / The western part of Shand Crescent was the driveway for the large homestead later built by Thomas Shand. It was surrounded by gardens with a spring fed pond.
The register’s own frame
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
Presented to the Borough of Riccarton on the Occasion
This Tree Was Planted by the Riccarton Wigram CommunityIn 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
1,044 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 814 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Facility - General Request
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Dumped Rubbish
Water Leak
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Shand Crescent Reserve in Riccarton, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.
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.
3 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2003. 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/27206-shand-crescent-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.