Polish Settlers Place / 1872-2017
A plaque, standing in Marshland. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
POLISH SETTLERS PLACE/ 1872-2017/ Dedicated to Early Polish Settlers, from faraway land of Pomerania, landed in Lyttleton in august 1872 aboard the 'Friedeburg" and tirelesslt cultivated Canterbury marsh lands, for future generations./ Polish Community in NZ/ Proudly supported by the Polish Embassy in New Zealand
Where it stands
The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.
The ground’s other names
In Memory of / Jaime Robert McDowell Gilbert
Plaque no. 310899
Plaque no. 310900
Plaque no. 310901In 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
233 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 155 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Facility - General Request
Overgrown Vegetation
Overgrown Vegetation
General Request
Bus Shelter Issue
Damaged Road
Pavement - Damaged
Hazard, vehicle
General Request
Pavement - Damaged
Park - General Request
Overgrown VegetationQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch in Marshland, 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 rock. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
9 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
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/311062-ground.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.