Rugby Football Was First Played in Cranmer Square
A plaque at Cranmer Square, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
Rugby football was first played in Cranmer Square by the Christchurch Football Club in 1863
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
2,338 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 1,934 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Pest / Vermin
General Request
General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Cranmer Square 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 stone plinth. 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 2003. 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/61081-cranmer-square.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.