In Loving Memory of our Mum / Nancy Tarling / Nee Houghton
A plaque at Hagley Park North, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
In loving memory of our Mum / NANCY TARLING / nee HOUGHTON / 1938 – 1999
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 78
Hagley Park North plaque, no. 73649
Known As the 'Lone Oak' / This Beech Tree Marks
In Memory of Rewi Alley / Planted March 25 1988
Liberte Egalite Fraternite
1952 — 2002 / Nurse Maude Association / Home Care Services
In Loving Memory of / Peggy Foster
This Scarlet Oak / Was Planted to Celebrate
Planted on the / Occasion of the Visit
70 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
436 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 350 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 sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Animal - Domestic
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Trees - General
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Roads - General
Abandoned Vehicle
Public ToiletQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Hagley Park North 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.
79 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/75268-hagley-park-north.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.