Dedicated to the Memory of / Russell Buchanan
A plaque at Hoon Hay Park, standing in Hoon Hay. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
Dedicated to the memory of/ Russell Buchanan/ in recognition of his devotion/ to maintaining this park
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
518 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 436 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
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Public Toilet
Public Toilet
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Dumped Rubbish
Public ToiletQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Hoon Hay Park in Hoon Hay, 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 seat. 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/311042-hoon-hay-park.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.