Welcome to Ashgrove Reserve If You’D Have a Mind at Peace
A plaque at Ashgrove Reserve, standing in Somerfield. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
WELCOME TO ASHGROVE RESERVE IF YOU’D HAVE A MIND AT PEACE A HEART THAT CANNOT HARDEN GO FIND A DOOR THAT OPENS WIDE UPON A LOVELY GARDEN PURCHASED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE CITIZENS OF CHRISTCHURCH DECEMBER 1965
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.
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
279 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Trees & parks, 228 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Facility - General Request
Road Signage
Dumped Rubbish
Roads - General
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Water Leak
Overgrown Vegetation
Water Pollution - Sediment
Dumped RubbishQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Ashgrove Reserve in Somerfield, 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 rock. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2025. 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/30436-ashgrove-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.