This Olive Tree Was Planted on / 20th May 1984
A plaque at Elizabeth Park, standing in Cashmere. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
THIS OLIVE TREE WAS PLANTED ON / 20th MAY 1984 / TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF CRETE / WHICH BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1941 / N.Z. CRETE VETERANS ASSOCIATION / (CANTERBURY BRANCH)
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
225 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Trees & parks, 174 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Water Leak
Damaged Street Sign
Street Gutters / Storm Water
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Hazard, vehicle
Public Toilet
Abandoned VehicleQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Elizabeth Park in Cashmere, 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.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 1998. 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/84766-elizabeth-park.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.