Botanic Gardens, no. 85600
A plaque at Botanic Gardens, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
BOTANIC GARDENS / THIS FENCE, ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF THE BOTANIC GARDENS WAS A GIFT TO THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH FROM W.S.MACGIBBON ESQ O.B.E. A CITY COUNCILLOR FOR 21 YEARS / GEO. MANNING ESQ C.M.G. M.A. MAYOR / CR. P.J. SKELLERUP CHAIRMAN / H.G.GILPIN DIRECTOR / FEBRUARY 1963
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 171
163 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
1,947 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 1,501 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Hazard, vehicle
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Water Leak
Water Leak
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Traffic Signals
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Hazard, vehicle
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridgeQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Botanic Gardens 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 wall. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
172 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2004. 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/85600-botanic-gardens.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.