This Garden Is Dedicated to the Memory of James McCombs
A plaque at Woolston Park, standing in Woolston. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
THIS GARDEN IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES McCOMBS AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH REID McCOMBS BOTH OF WHOM SERVED AS COUNCILLORS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH FOR MANY YEARS
The register’s own frame
The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.
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
Woolston Centennial 27th July 1893–1993 Plaque – Donated
Coronation 1910 Erected by Anchor Lodge
George Wears Samms 1882 – 1954 Lily Samms Scott 1909 – 2005
Coronation / 1910 / Erected by Anchor Lodge
Woolston Park plaqueIn 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
1,101 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 890 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Dumped Rubbish
Litter
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Water General
Damaged Asset – CCC contractor
Damaged Road
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Woolston Park in Woolston, 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 wall. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
6 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2009. 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/54470-woolston-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.