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This Tree Was Planted to Commemorate the Coronation

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

This tree was planted to commemorate the coronation of H.M. Elizabeth II 1953
The ground
Linwood Park
The suburb
Phillipstown
The year
2009, the register’s commission
Rides on
stone plinth
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Linwood Park

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

1,154 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 1,027 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Playground Equipment Canterbury · 11 October 2026
Playground Equipment Linwood Park Linwood Avenue, Phillipstown · 8 October 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park Linwood Park Linwood Avenue, Phillipstown · 26 September 2026
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet Canterbury · 21 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish Linwood Park Linwood Avenue, Phillipstown · 18 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park Linwood Park Linwood Avenue, Phillipstown · 14 September 2026
Park - General Request Linwood Park Linwood Avenue, Phillipstown · 5 September 2026
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art Linwood Park Linwood Avenue, Phillipstown · 30 August 2026
Facility - General Request Linwood Park Linwood Avenue, Phillipstown · 26 August 2026
Water Leak 252 Linwood Ave · 25 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Linwood Park in Phillipstown, 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 stone plinth. 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 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/60179-linwood-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.