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Edmonds Factory Garden plaque

A plaque at Edmonds Factory Garden, standing in Waltham. The surveyor filed its words as unknown.

The suburb
Waltham
Rides on
stone plinth
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Edmonds Factory Garden

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

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

1,078 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 886 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak 125 Osborne St · 10 October 2026
General Request 357 Ferry Road, Waltham · 29 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish 330 Ferry Road, Waltham · 28 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish Ferry Rd near Osborne St, Waltham · 25 September 2026
Hazard, vehicle 10 Ryan St · 24 September 2026
Water Leak Edmonds Park 357 Ferry Road, Waltham · 20 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish 126 Osborne Street, Waltham · 19 September 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Edmonds Factory Garden in Waltham, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The surveyor filed the inscription as "unknown", the weathering won, or nobody transcribed it. The plaque still earns its page: it stands, the ground is named, and the record’s pin is real.

Are there others at Edmonds Factory Garden?

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

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/310916-edmonds-factory-garden.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.