This Mural Was Created / by Dcypher in May 2016
A plaque at Wharenui Pool, standing in Riccarton. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
This mural was created / by Dcypher in May 2016 / to mark the reopening of the / Wharenui Recreation Centre. / This facility sustained earthquake damage / in February 2011 and was repaired / and restored in 2016. / Thanks to Dcypher (Guy Ellis) and to / the brand owners who gave / Christchurch City Council / permission to use their images. / © Christchurch City Council. Third party copyright / images are reproduced under copyright licences.
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
1,872 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 1,456 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Hazard, vehicle
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Hazard, vehicle
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Pavement - DamagedQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Wharenui Pool in Riccarton, 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 1899. 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/310967-wharenui-pool.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.