In Memory of / Ernie Heenan
A plaque at Botanic Gardens, standing in Christchurch Central. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
In memory of / Ernie Heenan / 19.6.1930 - 21.2.2009 / "A life of devotion"
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
432 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 318 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Dumped Rubbish
Road Blockage
Park - General Request
Pavement - Damaged
Playground Equipment
Public Toilet
Playground Equipment
Pothole
Pavement - GeneralQuestions, 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 seat. 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 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/85677-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.