World War II Road Blocks / 1942
A plaque at Whitewash Reserve, standing in Scarborough. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
WORLD WAR II ROAD BLOCKS / 1942 / THESE CONCRETE BLOCKS WERE ORIGINALLY SITUATED / ON THE ROAD BETWEEN THE PRESENT CHILDREN'S / SWIMMING POOL AND THE CLIFF WHEN SUMNER WAS PART / OF THE RESTRICTED ENTRY LYTTELTON FORTRESS AREA. / DEMOLISHED IN LATE 1943, THE BLOCKS WERE RECOVERED / FROM THE FORESHORE IN MAY 1994. / CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL & / SUMNER REDCLIFFS HISTORICAL SOC. INC. / 4.11.2000
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
Trish & Rick'S / Seat
This Seat Was Donated by the / Sumner Senior Citizens Club
To the Memory of / Gilbert W. Lewis / 1921 - 1995In 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
324 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Trees & parks, 264 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Hazard, vehicle
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Accessibility
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Pothole
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Overgrown Vegetation
Pavement - General
Water Leak
Pavement - General
Park - General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Whitewash Reserve in Scarborough, 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 other. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
4 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2000. 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/84475-whitewash-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.