Aldred Reserve plaque
A plaque at Aldred Reserve, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
ALDRED PARK / IN 1993 A SUGGESTION WAS PUT TO THE CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL BY THE VICTORIA NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP, TO ESTABLISH A RESERVE ON THIS SITE. / SUBSEQUENTLY IT WAS PURCHASED, CLEARED AND LANDSCAPED. / IT HAS BEEN NAMED FOR THE REVEREND ALDRED WHO OWNED LARGE TRACTS OF THE LAND IN THIS AREA DURING THE CITY'S EARLY SETTLEMENT. / THE NEIGHBOURHOOD SURROUNDING THIS PARK IS ONE OF THE OLDEST IN THE CITY. THE SOCIAL CLASS STRUCTURE OF 100 YEARS AGO IS STILL EVIDENT IN THE STYLES OF HOUSING IN THE AREA, FROM THE SMALLEST OF WORKERS COTTAGES TO LARGE VILLAS AND GRANDER HOMES. / EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THESE CAN BE SEEN ON [illegible], DURHAM, PEACOCK AND MONTREAL STREETS, ALSO [illegible] AND GRACEFIELD AVENUES. / NOTABLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED HERE INCLUDE JAMES K BAXTER (WRITER & POET) AND FANNY BUSS (ARTIST). / IN MEMORY OF / GEORGE THORN, JOHN HUGGINS, FRANK WARE & FRASER BURRIDGE, / WHO HELPED MAKE THIS A NEIGHBOURHOOD.
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.
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
1,693 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 1,427 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Hazard, vehicle
Trees - General
General Request
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Rubbish and Bins - General
Traffic Signals
Dumped Rubbish
Hazard, vehicle
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or waQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Aldred Reserve in Christchurch Central, 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 wall. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2004. 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/310931-aldred-reserve.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.