This Stone Was Laid by / the Mayoress of Sumner
A plaque at Scarborough Park, standing in Sumner. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY / THE MAYORESS OF SUMNER / MRS W. H. NICHOLSON / 17TH DEC 1934
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
This Pohutukawa Was Planted by / Thos
Scarborough Park plaque, no. 114134
Scarborough Park plaque, no. 114148
Scarborough Park plaque, no. 310910
Scarborough Park plaque, no. 310911
Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / in Loving Memory
Scarborough Park plaque, no. 310914In 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
695 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 519 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Rubbish and Bins - General
Park - General Request
Abandoned Vehicle
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Pavement - Damaged
General Request
Park - General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Scarborough Park in Sumner, 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 stone plinth. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
8 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
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/310912-scarborough-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.