To the Memory
A plaque at Ruru Lawn Cemetery, standing in Bromley. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
TO THE MEMORY OF (text unclear on bench edge)
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 25
Remembering our Dearly Loved Son Brother and Grandson Gary
Remembering All the Families of John and Rubina Owens
Remembering our Son Craig Brian Hodder Christchurch New
Remembering All the Families of Leonard and Lillah Hodder
Dedicated to the Memory of Fltlt George Nimmo 404931
In Remembrance of My Husband Daniel Giles Sullivan
To the Memory of our Loving Mother Mary Eileen Doody
With Loving Memories of Raymond Davies 1987
17 more names stand on the same ground, the whole roll keeps them: /plaques.
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
291 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Rubbish & dumping, 241 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
Litter
Litter
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Pavement - General
Water General
Dumped Rubbish
Public Toilet
Facility - General Request
Public ToiletQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Ruru Lawn Cemetery in Bromley, 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 seat. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
26 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/66047-ruru-lawn-cemetery.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.