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Upper Riccarton War Memorial plaque

A plaque at Upper Riccarton War Memorial P, standing in Upper Riccarton. The surveyor filed its words as unknown.

The ground
Upper Riccarton War Memorial P
The suburb
Upper Riccarton
The year
2025, the register’s commission
Rides on
wall
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Upper Riccarton War Memorial P

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

1,351 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 1,150 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - General 11 Leslie St · 11 October 2026
Accessibility 15 Leslie St · 10 October 2026
General Request Riccarton Rd · 5 October 2026
Dumped Rubbish 4 Haynes Ave · 4 October 2026
Bus Shelter Issue 372–398 Riccarton Rd · 25 September 2026
Pothole Q4/364 Riccarton Road, Upper Riccarton · 21 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish 12–14 Haynes Ave · 17 September 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Upper Riccarton War Memorial P in Upper Riccarton, 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.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2025. 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/311019-upper-riccarton-war-memorial-p.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.