A photograph looking east down Bedford Row. There is a pile of gravel on the left and the road has been fenced off.
A photograph looking east down Bedford Row. There is a pile of gravel on the left and the road has been fenced off.
A photograph of piles of dirt and gravel outside the ASB Stadium in Wigram.
A large mound of gravel sits beside a building on High Street. In the background, excavators continue to demolish buildings.
According to the sign it can take about 30 minutes to walk from the entry point (near the small statue) to the centre and out again. What you can do with a few thousand old bricks and gravel. See next photo for more detail.
According to the sign it can take about 30 minutes to walk from the entry point (here) to the centre and out again. That is without stepping across the gaps between bricks. What you can do with a few thousand old bricks and gravel!
Prior to the earthquakes (mainly the February 22 2011 event) this park bench was at track level. Shortly after the February quake someone in the council did the sums and realised that the area near the Avon River had dropped between a metre and 1.4m (about 4 foot), so a rush job by contractors shifted in many tonnes of rock and gravel to raise a...