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Keith Owen Mitchell and Grandson Judah

A plaque at Owen Mitchell Park, standing in Redwood. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

Keith Owen Mitchell and grandson Judah 31.8.1993 - 27.9.2012 ‘Lived Exuberantly, Lived Extravagantly’
The suburb
Redwood
The year
2019, the register’s commission
Rides on
seat
The register says
in service

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

354 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 288 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Park - General Request Redwood · 1 October 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Canterbury · 25 September 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 19 September 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 17 September 2026
Public Toilet 100 Grimseys Rd · 7 September 2026
Public Toilet 100 Grimseys Road, Redwood · 7 September 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Owen Mitchell Park in Redwood, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

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.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2019. 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/311066-owen-mitchell-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.