William Guise Brittan Historical Garden on 26 November 1994
A plaque at William Brittan Garden Opening, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
WILLIAM GUISE BRITTAN HISTORICAL GARDEN On 26 November 1994 the first shrubs were planted at the official opening of this reserve. The guest of honour was Amanda Upham, daughter of Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham, V.C. and Bar, the great‑grandson of William Guise Brittan.
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.
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
1,664 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 1,416 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Hazard, vehicle
Pothole
General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at William Brittan Garden Opening in Christchurch Central, 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 plaque. 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 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/59723-william-brittan-garden-opening.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.