An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 27 February 2011 entitled, "Our corner shops".
A digitally manipulated image of a shop window, with a poster of Elvis Costello visible inside. The photographer comments, "This picture of a young Elvis Costello looks hauntingly out from a badly earthquake damaged shop in Christchurch".
Staff carrying shop fittings out of the damaged Bealey Pharmacy.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Good neighbours in Riccarton. Florist shop takes in barber shop after their building was damaged in the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage at The Palms Shopping Centre".
Damaged shops on Colombo Street cordoned off with fencing and police tape.
The damaged Country Theme shop behind cordon fencing on St Asaph Street.
Shop fittings sitting on the footpath in front of the damaged Bealey Pharmacy.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. View north on Colombo Street in Sydenham. Damaged shops and cars".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. View north on Colombo Street in Sydenham. Damaged shops and cars".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. View north on Colombo Street in Sydenham. Damaged shops and cars".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Good neighbours in Riccarton. Florist shop takes in barber shop after their building was damaged in the quake. Barber Evan Jarden gives a trim to florist owner Jervis Davis as daughter Carolyn Rushton gets flowers into the shop".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Shirley Shopping Centre".
Damage to a row of shops on Barbadoes Street. The brick facades have collapsed, crushing the awnings.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a shop on the corner of Cashel and Barbadoes Street.
Damage to buidings on Victoria Street. Shops that have been checked are marked with spray-painted codes.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. A shop on Kilmore Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A woman carries her shopping past the extensively-damaged Blackwells department store in Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage to shops along Riccarton Road following the September 4th 2010 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage to shops along Riccarton Road following the September 4th 2010 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage to shops along Riccarton Road following the September 4th 2010 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage to shops along Riccarton Road following the September 4th 2010 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage to shops along Riccarton Road following the September 4th 2010 earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Rubble mound. Bruce Tran of Kaiapoi Fish and Chips surveys the damage outside his shop".
A large chess board made from sand and broken shells, with a painted beach scene on the wall behind. The photographer comments, "After all the suggestions put on the wall on what to do in this area, which was once an earthquake damaged shop, they have made the chess board, painted a seaside scene on the wall and created a small wall of tyres".
A digitally manipulated image of a damaged wooden wall. The photographer comments, "And the walls came tumbling down".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. A massive 7.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Christchurch and the wider South Island, causing widespread damage, two serious injuries and power cuts to most of the city. Beckenham shops damaged in the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. A massive 7.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Christchurch and the wider South Island, causing widespread damage, two serious injuries and power cuts to most of the city. Beckenham shops damaged in the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. A massive 7.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Christchurch and the wider South Island, causing widespread damage, two serious injuries and power cuts to most of the city. Beckenham shops damaged in the quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Brett Wells, retail operations director of the Rock Shop, behind the curtain that separates the back of the shop, which they can trade from, and the front (behind Brett) that only staff can enter, after earthquake damage".