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In Loving Memory of Alvine Rosemary Robertson 1959–2003

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

IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALVINE ROSEMARY ROBERTSON 1959–2003
The ground
Akaroa Heritage Park
The suburb
Akaroa
The year
2008, the register’s commission
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Akaroa Heritage 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.

The ground’s other names

Given by the Family of Ian McKellar “GIVEN BY THE FAMILY OF IAN McKELLAR / 2.8.26 - 16.9.99” Set Me Right Read Me Well and I to Thee the Time Will Tell “SET ME RIGHT READ ME WELL AND I TO THEE THE TIME WILL TELL” With Memories of / Una & Jack Reid “With Memories of / Una & Jack Reid”

In the archive

Documents naming In Loving Memory of Alvine Rosemary Robertson 1959–2003 the shelf, searched for the name on the plaque The record’s own search everywhere else the name appears Akaroa Heritage Park the park the plaque stands on Akaroa the suburb it stands in

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay Inside a kept landscape, Significant rural landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Transport T The nearest recorded shake: M3.5 1 October 2010 · 3.9 km from the pin · 2 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

Akaroa Heritage Park community park · under 150 m Ci-Gît Le Corps de Le Lièvre édouard, Gé de 35 Ans, Capt Du plaque · 2.3 km In Memory of Madam Libeau, Pierre David, Le Vaillant plaque · 2.3 km Ici Repose Le Corps de Mr Pierre Le Buffé Commis de La plaque · 2.3 km Old French Burial Ground plaque · 2.3 km

The reports nearby

2 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks, 2 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Overgrown Vegetation Akaroa Heritage Park 280 Long Bay Road, Akaroa 7583 · 17 May 2025
Parks 280 Long Bay Rd, Akaroa · 31 January 2017

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Akaroa Heritage Park in Akaroa, 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 plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Are there others at Akaroa Heritage Park?

4 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/6075-akaroa-heritage-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.