The damaged clock tower on Victoria Street, wrapped and braced to prevent further damage. The photographer comments, "Diamond Jubilee Clock Tower in Christchurch. Its legs wrapped up for protection. Volcanic stone and limestone clock tower with ornate wrought iron work with coloured glass around part of the tower and four clock faces. Clock Tower built in this location to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Has two white marble plaques and one bronze plaque set on stone work above arches".
The clock face on the left is showing the correct time. The clock face on the right stopped at the moment of the big earthquake in CHCH on Sept 4th at 4.25am. It stayed like that for a week until fixed. Interestingly that face has not shown the correct time since.
View of the Victoria Clock Tower on Victoria Street. The time on the clock's face is stopped at the time of the February earthquake.
The Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.
The Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras Street and Oxford Terrace.
The Victoria Clock tower stopped at the time of the 22 February earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "New Brighton clock tower showing the time that the earthquake struck".
Detail of the Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.
Detail of the Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.
Clock tower on Victoria St stopped at the time of the 22nd February earthquake.
Clock Tower at old ChCh central Train station (Now movie theatre and science alive activity centre)
Clock Tower at old ChCh central Train station (Now movie theatre and science alive activity centre)
Clock Tower at old ChCh central Train station (Now movie theatre and science alive activity centre)
Cracked.. Badly
Detail of the clock tower on the former railway station building on Moorhouse Avenue at the bottom of Madras Street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Clock tower on Victoria Street stopped at the time of the earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Clock tower on Victoria Street stopped at the time of the earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Major earthquake hits Christchurch. Clock tower on Victoria Street stopped at the time of the earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch 6.3 earthquake aftermath. The clock tower on the old post office in Cathedral Square."
Victoria Mansons and the Clock tower on Victoria St which is stopped at the time of the February 22nd earthquake.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of the Strategy Building on Victoria Street. In the background is the Victoria Clock Tower.
A digitally manipulated image of diggers sitting on top of rubble beside the old Railway Station. The photographer comments, "Which one will be buried 6 foot under?".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch mayor Bob Parker surveys the earthquake damage to the Science Alive/old train station building on Moorhouse Avenue. The clock tower has large cracks and the clock itself stopped at the time the earthquake hit".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch mayor Bob Parker surveys the earthquake damage to the Science Alive/old train station building on Moorhouse Avenue. The clock tower has large cracks and the clock itself stopped at the time the earthquake hit".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch mayor Bob Parker surveys the earthquake damage to the Science Alive/old train station building on Moorhouse Avenue. The clock tower has large cracks and the clock itself stopped at the time the earthquake hit".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker surveys the earthquake damage to the Science Alive building (previously the old train station) on Moorhouse Avenue. The clock tower has large cracks and the clock itself stopped at the time the earthquake hit".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker surveys the earthquake damage to the Science Alive building (previously the old train station) on Moorhouse Avenue. The clock tower has large cracks and the clock itself stopped at the time the earthquake hit".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker surveys the earthquake damage to the Science Alive building (previously the old train station) on Moorhouse Avenue. The clock tower has large cracks and the clock itself stopped at the time the earthquake hit".
The clock tower of the former Railway Station, encased in plywood to prevent further damage. A banner sponsored by The Press hangs below the clock, covered with words which symbolise the September earthquake. The photographer comments, "After the September earthquake the clocked stopped at 04:35 and everyone campaigned to have this clock left as it was. At that time the building was believed to be OK. Two more earthquakes later and the possible memorial will probably end up like a lot of Christchurch's heritage buildings on a huge pile of stone and bricks in Bottle Lake Forest".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Clock tower at the old railway station, now Science Alive, stopped at time of the earthquake and won't be fixed till after shocks stop".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Clock tower at the old railway station, now Science Alive, stopped at time of the earthquake and won't be fixed till after shocks stop".