She Passed Beside These Quiet Waters
A plaque at Halswell Quarry Park, standing in Kennedys Bush. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
SHE PASSED BESIDE THESE QUIET WATERS / SHELTERED FROM THE SILVER EASTERLY / BY CRIMSON CLOAK AND GREEN HARAKEKE / I REST HERE IN SUBDUED COLOURS / AND REMEMBER HER LIGHT / PLACED HERE BY THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF SUZANNE QUIRK / JULY 1954 – SEPTEMBER 2006
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 31
Halswell Quarry Park plaque, no. 89609
Halswell Quarry Park plaque, no. 89612
This Tree Was Planted by Ronald S. Fung
Planted on / 29th September 1973 / H F Hay
Column Basalt
Holiwell Stone
Planted on / 29th September 1973
Harry Ell’S Vision
23 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
136 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 107 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Water Leak
Facility - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Litter
Roads - General
Fallen Tree
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Hazard, vehicle
Dumped Rubbish
Pest / VerminQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Halswell Quarry Park in Kennedys Bush, 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 rock. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
32 plaques on the register share this ground, the others are linked above.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2006. 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/89668-halswell-quarry-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.