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Gansu Province, China / Sister City Garden

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.

Gansu Province, China / Sister City Garden / opened (date illegible)
The suburb
Kennedys Bush
The year
2001, the register’s commission
Rides on
rock
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Halswell Quarry Park

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

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

90 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 69 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Park - General Request CH2H+QV Kurashiki Garden Songpa Street, Kennedys Bush · 4 October 2026
Park - General Request CH2H+QV Kurashiki Garden Songpa Street, Kennedys Bush · 15 September 2026
Park - General Request CH2H+QV Songpa Garden, Kennedys Bush · 16 August 2026
Public Toilet CH2H+QV Kurashiki Garden Songpa Street, Kennedys Bush · 2 August 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 31 July 2026
Water Fountain CH2H+QV Songpa Garden, Kennedys Bush · 29 July 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 12 July 2026
Overgrown Vegetation Canterbury · 4 July 2026
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art CH2H+QV Kurashiki Japanese Gardens Songpa Street, Kennedys Bush · 1 July 2026
Public Toilet CH2H+QV Kurashiki Japanese Gardens Songpa Street, Kennedys Bush · 27 March 2026
Fallen Tree Canterbury · 23 March 2026
Park - General Request CH2H+QV Songpa Garden, Kennedys Bush · 29 January 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Halswell Quarry Park in Kennedys Bush, 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 rock. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Are there others at Halswell Quarry Park?

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

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2001. 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/89860-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.