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Baxters Drain plaque

A plaque at Baxters Drain, standing in Addington. The surveyor filed a note, not words: “Decorative thistle carving – no text”.

The ground
Baxters Drain
The suburb
Addington
The year
2008, the register’s commission
Rides on
stone plinth
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.

The ground’s other names

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

1,442 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 1,106 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Baxters Drain in Addington, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The surveyor filed a note, not the words themselves, “Decorative thistle carving – no text”. The plaque still earns its page: it stands, the ground is named, and the record’s pin is real.

Are there others at Baxters Drain?

3 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2008. 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/311068-baxters-drain.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.