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In Loving Remembrance of our Mother / Hilda May Baldwin

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 loving remembrance of our mother / Hilda May Baldwin / (nee Johnston) / 1916 - 1987
The ground
Botanic Gardens
The year
2008, the register’s commission
Rides on
seat
The register says
in service
The donor line
MAISON ROUGE LTD

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

397 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 302 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a playground or in a park Hagley Park North 14 Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 13 September 2026
Road Blockage 14 Riccarton Ave · 7 September 2026
Pest / Vermin Canterbury · 5 September 2026
Pavement - Damaged Canterbury · 5 September 2026
Public Toilet 8 Riccarton Ave · 17 August 2026
Pothole Canterbury · 15 August 2026
Hazard, vehicle Canterbury · 2 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Botanic Gardens in Christchurch Central, 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 Botanic Gardens?

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

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2008. 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/85683-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.