This Plaque Commemorates the 50th Anniversary
A plaque at Kingsford Smith Reserve, standing in Wigram. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
This plaque commemorates the 50th anniversary of the landing at Wigram of the southern Cross after the first flight across the Tasman Sea on September 11th 1928 / Co-commanders Sqn. LDR. C.E. Kingsford Smith M.C.A.F.C. FLT. LT. C.T.P. ULM A.F.C. / Crew/ H.A. Litchfield Navigator / T.H. McWilliams Wireless Operator / ‘They came on the wings of the morning”
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
191 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 141 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Overgrown Vegetation
Hazard, vehicle
Abandoned Vehicle
Pavement - Damaged
Park - General Request
Overgrown Vegetation
Overgrown Vegetation
Overgrown Vegetation
Trees - GeneralQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Kingsford Smith Reserve in Wigram, 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 other. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
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/311040-kingsford-smith-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.