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This Stone and Time Capsule / Celebrates the Life, no. 310664

A plaque at Pigeon Bay Hall, standing in Pigeon Bay. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

THIS STONE AND TIME CAPSULE / CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF / THE PIGEON BAY SCHOOL / 1852 — FEB. 2006 / THE TIME CAPSULE IS TO / BE OPENED IN THE YEAR 2106
The ground
Pigeon Bay Hall
The suburb
Pigeon Bay
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 Pigeon Bay Hall

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

This Stone and Time Capsule / Celebrates the Life, no. 309977 “THIS STONE AND TIME CAPSULE / CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF / THE PIGEO…” 1852 — 1952 / Pigeon Bay / Centennial of / Education, no. 309978 “1852 — 1952 / PIGEON BAY / CENTENNIAL OF / EDUCATION / COMMEMORA…” To Commemorate / 150 Years of Education / at / Pigeon Bay, no. 309979 “To Commemorate / 150 years of Education / at / Pigeon Bay / Pige…” 1852 — 1952 / Pigeon Bay / Centennial of / Education, no. 310665 “1852 — 1952 / PIGEON BAY / CENTENNIAL OF / EDUCATION / COMMEMORA…” To Commemorate / 150 Years of Education / at / Pigeon Bay, no. 310666 “To Commemorate / 150 years of Education / at / Pigeon Bay / Pige…”

In the archive

Documents naming This Stone and Time Capsule / Celebrates the Life, no. 310664 the shelf, searched for the name on the plaque The record’s own search everywhere else the name appears Pigeon Bay Hall the park the plaque stands on Pigeon Bay the suburb it stands in

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay Inside a kept landscape, NCCE1.0 - Natural Character in the Coastal Environment the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Open Space Community Parks OCP The nearest recorded shake: M3.1 15 June 2011 · ~550 m from the pin · 30 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

Pigeon Bay Hall the community park it’s inside Pigeon Bay Campground community park · ~250 m Planted in Memory of / Mrs Helen McBride plaque · 7.4 km These Baths Were / Officially Opened / by / L. H. Field plaque · 7.5 km The Parkinson Memorial / Park Trust plaque · 7.5 km In Memory of Margaret June Money (Nee Marr) 1926 - 1993 plaque · 9.0 km

The reports nearby

2 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Vehicles & parking, 2 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Hazard, vehicle 12–46 Starvation Gully Rd, Canterbury, Pigeon Bay 7583 · 6 July 2026
Water General 23 Starvation Gully Road, Pigeon Bay · 4 June 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Pigeon Bay Hall in Pigeon Bay, 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.

Are there others at Pigeon Bay Hall?

6 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.

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/310664-pigeon-bay-hall.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.