Proudly Donated by the de la Mare Family
A plaque at Crofts Reserve, standing in Parklands. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
Proudly donated by the De La Mare family/ In loving memory of/ Roger Anthony De La Mare/ 14.11.1939 to 29.12.2022/ Owner of the Bower Egg Farm/ which stood on this site for over 40 years
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
143 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 109 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Abandoned Vehicle
Sewer - Leak / Blockage
Street Light Outage
Abandoned Vehicle
Water Leak
Overgrown Vegetation
Litter
Water General
Pavement - Damaged
Overgrown Vegetation
Pavement - DamagedQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Crofts Reserve in Parklands, 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, 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/311046-crofts-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.