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A photograph of a garden bed receiving some new bark.

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Bird droppings on the windows of the Town Hall, and weeds growing in the fountain bed below.

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A photograph of flower beds on Park Terrace. Fences and road cones are seen in the background.

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The Town Hall viewed from Victoria Square. The Ferrier Fountain is no longer running and weeds have grown in its bed.

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The Ferrier Fountain in front of the Town Hall. The fountain is no longer running and there are weeds in the water bed.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1888

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A bed of sunflowers growing in the garden surrounding the Coffee Zone kiosk, with some sweet peas behind. The garden was a project supported by Greening the Rubble.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1876

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A bed of sunflowers growing in the garden surrounding the Coffee Zone kiosk, with some sweet peas behind. The garden was a project supported by Greening the Rubble.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1877

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A bed of sunflowers growing in the garden surrounding the Coffee Zone kiosk, with some sweet peas behind. The garden was a project supported by Greening the Rubble.

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new car park on Colombo Street between Tuam and Lichfield Streets, with flower beds and new trees".

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Plant beds made out of corrugated iron, greening the empty building sites along Colombo Street. These were placed here by Greening the Rubble, a community project in Christchurch to create temporary public parks and gardens on the sites of demolished buildings.

Dallington 8

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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".

Fairfax Video, September 2012 (4)

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A video of a press conference with Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee. Brownlee announced that cabinet has agreed to redevelop the hospital sites throughout Canterbury. This will include the building of additional operating theatres, the replacement of around 5000 beds, the expansion of the intensive care unit and emergency department, and the building of a new hospital for older persons in Burwood.

When Are They Going to Reveal the Secret?

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The dome of the Isaac Theatre Royal covered in sheeting and suspended in the backstage area. In the foreground, a small digger sits on the bed of a truck, and a crane is visible to the left. The photographer comments, "This is the 'dome' of the Isaac Theatre Royal's heritage stage. The front section of the theatre has stayed and so has the back, but the middle has been completely demolished. The best way to hide a secret is in plain sight. Could this really be an ancient UFO stored secretly in the old theatre for decades and now exposed by the earthquake? Is the waiting crane and transporter ready to whip it away to another secret location in the dead of night?".