Dallington 7
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
A photograph captioned, "My daughter grew up in this house. She's 10 now. She is going to miss it - and Dallington. It's where she's grown up, what she knows. She'll miss it alright. Me too".
A photograph captioned, "My daughter grew up in this house. She's 10 now. She is going to miss it - and Dallington. It's where she's grown up, what she knows. She'll miss it alright. Me too".
A PDF copy of a print image from phase 1 of the All Right? campaign. The image reads, "It's all right if you're over it right now. Canterbury has changed a lot and we all see things a little differently. And that's all right." The image appeared in News Advertiser, The Observer, Pegasus Post and Western News on 18 March 2013 and The Star on 20 March 2013.
A PDF copy of a print image from phase 1 of the All Right? campaign. The image reads, "It's all right to feel a little blue now and then. Canterbury has changed a lot and we all see things a little differently. And that's all right." The image appeared in News Advertiser, The Observer, Pegasus Post and Western News on 25 February 2013. The image appeared in The Star on 27 February 2013.
A PDF copy of a print image from phase 1 of the All Right? campaign. The image reads, "It's all right to feel lucky. Canterbury has changed a lot and we all see things a little differently. And that's all right." The image appeared in News Advertiser, The Observer, Pegasus Post and Western News on 11 March 2013.
Photograph captioned, "Dallington used to be the most popular suburb in New Zealand to live in. And that makes sense, because it's halfway between the beach and the city. It's close enough to town but far enough away, as well. There were good schools in the area. The mall was close. It's got the river and the tree lined sections, everything. It was special all right".
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man or woman in possession of natural body odour is most definitely in want of something to cover it up. At least, in today’s society, it certainly seems to be considered unacceptable … Continue reading →
A photograph captioned, "So it's been an eventful couple of years. I think the first earthquake, it was just so totally unexpected. You went to bed one night and when you woke up - in just a few seconds- everything was different than it had been before".
An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 25 February 2014 entitled, "It's all turned to custard..... remix".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 18 December 2010 entitled, "I think it's summer".
A PDF copy of a newsletter sent by All Right? to their mailing list in April 2017.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 9 October 2011 entitled, "It's spring in Christchurch...".
Bob Parker can't believe it's been nearly six years since the ChristChurch Cathedral was almost destroyed by an earthquake, and still it sits there.
A photograph captioned, "It's weird, it's very random. There were some beautiful houses here and now they are gone".
"It can be years down the track that things pop up, you know, you just can't ask him a question."
An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 7 April 2013 entitled, "Is it good news or bad news?".
Christchurch has a frontier appearance about it in this photograph taken by Dr. Barker in 1860 from the tower of the Canterbury Provincial Buildings. With little beyond the immediate streets, it c…
A photograph captioned, "It feels like it has been a really on-going process. We weren't in the head space for it really, because when you retire, you think you're in your retirement home and you're there to stay. You don't expect to have to move on. To do all this".
Its 12 years of accumulated stuff and I was thinking I was just going to get rid of everything. I had the feeling I didn't want to hang onto anything. We tried to get rid of a lot of stuff in a garage sale. Some of it went, some of it didn't. It's a long process".
An earthquake memories story from Shirley Butcher, Charge Nurse Manager, Burwood Hospital, titled, "Could see it all unfolding".
Seventy Canterbury homeowners have found unreported damage.
An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 27 September 2013 entitled, "We did it.... the Bull is here to stay :)".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 28 June 2013 entitled, "Keeping it real: Living with Anxiety".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 23 December 2011 entitled, "Noooooo! It's happened again... More earthquakes".
Caption reads: "At the moment we’re trying to carry on like everything is normal. It’s not easy. It’s hard sometimes to remember what things were like before the earthquake."
An earthquake memories story from Susan Kovacs, Mental Health GP Liaison, Rural Canterbury Primary Health Organisation, titled, "We watched it all unfolding".
An earthquake memories story from Kate Cooper, Associate Clinical Nurse Manager, Emergency Department, Christchurch Hospital, titled, "Sharing made it so much easier".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 7 February 2012 entitled, "It Makes Me Want to Sing".
Oscar von Sierakowski’s factory and shop was built on the corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets in 1906. It boasted that it was the largest wire work factory in the colonies, producing decorati…
An elderly man, dressed in a plum coloured suit and bow tie, stands gazing at his nearly completed home. It is September 1900, and this is no ordinary home, it is reputed to be the largest wooden r…