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In Remembrance of Greg Smith

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

In remembrance of Greg Smith / Land Surveyor from Eliot Sinclair & Partners / Greg helped shape the landscape we see here today at Wigram Skies and will be fondly remembered by his friends and colleagues. / 1972 – 2017
The ground
Marama Park
The suburb
Wigram
The year
2018, the register’s commission
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Marama 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.

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

152 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Vehicles & parking, 134 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Hazard, vehicle 5 Echelon Drive, Wigram · 29 September 2026
Road Blockage 67 Skyhawk Road, Wigram · 4 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park 176–198 Kittyhawk Ave · 25 August 2026
Park - General Request 122–146 The Runway · 14 August 2026
Water General 88 Skyhawk Road, Wigram · 14 August 2026
Hazard, vehicle 10 Mackay St · 13 August 2026
Road Blockage 93 The Runway · 12 August 2026
Hazard, vehicle 10 Mackay St · 30 July 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Marama Park in Wigram, 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 plaque. 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 2018. 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/307647-marama-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.