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Bexley 17

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "We have to find a new home. We have to move on but we don't know what to look for."

Bexley 14

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "People brought food to the area and we were grateful. It was a disaster but we were coping. Our house was broken but that didn’t mean we had to be."

Bexley 7

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "No, I don’t think they deliver the mail everyday. Not anymore."

Bexley 11

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "Yeah yeah, I know, but you’ve got to look. It’s incredible what’s happened to these places. It’s not something you see everyday and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever."

Caption reads: "You can’t do a thing about it but I can’t be bothered going house hunting. I’ll just live each day as best I can. I keep thinking it could change again. The dust here doesn’t bother me, the noise doesn’t bother me. When they start pulling down houses the vibrations don’t bother me. Nothing bothers me. We’re all like that. That’s how you have to be when you can’t do a thing about it."

Bexley 19

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

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."

Bexley 20

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "It used to be lovely. We would go out walking all the time and we always went through the wetlands. There was all the beautiful flax and bushes that were around the track, and now it’s gone. All gone."

Bexley 1

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "There’s nothing we can do about what we’ve lost. We just keep hoping for the best."

Bexley 3

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "At night we light up the house like a Christmas tree so that people know we’re here."

Bexley 18

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "We were the only people around here for a long time. All of our neighbours moved out. It wont be long until Bexley is empty, and after that it will be gone."

Bexley 10

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "We made lifelong friends in Bexley. We never had a thought of living anywhere else until now."

Bexley 4

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "When we came to Bexley we were ready for a new life. We slowed down and started to enjoy ourselves. Before we moved to the area we never realised such a perfect place existed."

Bexley 9

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "A community is defined by people. After the 4th of September Bexley became a community."

Bexley 12

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "We have always been a hidden treasure in this city and it’s sad to say goodbye."

Bexley 2

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "No one is doing anything with their gardens now. There’s no point."

Bexley 5

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "I lived in London all through the Blitz, you get used to these things. Living here after the earthquakes didn’t bother me. I had a small battery operated radio and the neighbour lent me her generator. Initially I used it to run the fridge but after a while I couldn’t get it started. I don’t want to move, to be quite honest. There’s nothing that will be able to replace the life I built here."