This Pillar / Was Erected by / Geo, no. 310918
A plaque at New Brighton Beach Developed, standing in New Brighton. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
THIS PILLAR / WAS ERECTED BY / GEO. T. HAWKER / THE FATHER / OF NEW BRIGHTON / 1865–19[illegible]
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 13
This Seat Is Dedicated to / Frances M. Sands
This Seat Is Dedicated to / Jim & Yvonne Read
This Seat Is Dedicated to / Kempton H. Jervous-Chenery
This Clock and Tower Were Donated
New Brighton Beach Developed plaque, no. 95655
New Brighton Beach Developed plaque, no. 95658
Pegasus / Charitable Trust / Kay, Mary
New Brighton Beach Developed plaque, no. 96387
5 more names stand on the same ground, the whole roll keeps them: /plaques.
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
3,472 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 2,948 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 sign, mural or public art
Pavement - General
Pavement - Damaged
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Dumped Rubbish
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Street Light Outage
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Street Cleaning
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
LitterQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at New Brighton Beach Developed in New Brighton, 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.
14 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/310918-new-brighton-beach-developed.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.