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Rest & Reflect on the Beauty of the Estuary and Our

A plaque at Spit Reserve, standing in Southshore. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

Rest & reflect on the beauty of the estuary and our enduring debt to / Richard Keith Wright / whose work this seat commemorates. / Keith was a Southshore pioneer, / Residents Association Chairman, / committee member, archivist, and / co founder of the Estuary Association / We owe him much
The ground
Spit Reserve
The suburb
Southshore
The year
2007, the register’s commission
Rides on
seat
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Spit Reserve

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

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

13 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 10 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 28 April 2026
Dumped Rubbish 2 Stilt Lane, Southshore · 2 February 2024
Pest / Vermin Southshore Spit Reserve Rocking Horse Road, Southshore · 3 November 2022
Rubbish/Recycling Southshore · 21 April 2020
Roading/Streets Southshore · 14 September 2018
Parks Southshore · 25 February 2018
Graffiti 2 Stilt Ln, Southshore · 20 July 2016

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Spit Reserve in Southshore, 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 seat. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Are there others at Spit Reserve?

3 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2007. 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/83198-spit-reserve.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.