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New Zealand Football / Southern Regional Facilities

A plaque at English Park Stadium, standing in Saint Albans. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL / SOUTHERN REGIONAL FACILITIES / MAINLAND FOOTBALL TURF PITCH / (official opening text) / In partnership with Christchurch City Council / (names and date largely illegible due to glare)
The ground
English Park Stadium
The suburb
Saint Albans
Rides on
post
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at English Park Stadium

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

581 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 489 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Cranford St near Winton St, St Albans · 3 October 2026
Park - General Request 18 Sheppard Pl · 25 September 2026
Hazard, vehicle 85 Trafalgar St · 20 September 2026
Litter 115 Cranford Street, Saint Albans · 10 September 2026
Abandoned Vehicle 15 Oxley Ave · 7 September 2026
Road Signage 12 Berwick St · 2 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish 117 Cranford St · 31 August 2026
Noise - General 18 Sheppard Pl · 26 August 2026
Traffic Signals 96 Cranford St · 26 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at English Park Stadium in Saint Albans, 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 post. 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. 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/310852-english-park-stadium.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.