BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 219

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A crane with a wrecking ball demolishing St Elmo Courts on Hereford Street.

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 08:57:02

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 08:56:13

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 186

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A digger and a crane with a wrecking ball demolishing the St Elmo Courts building on Hereford Street.

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 08:56:12

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 08:57:11

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove, 2011:02:22 16:56:40

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 08:56:49

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 08:56:06

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 08:57:23

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wrecked house in Rapaki, hit by a car-sized boulder from the peak above".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 187

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A digger and a crane with a wrecking ball demolishing the St Elmo Courts building on Hereford Street.

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 220

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A crane with a wrecking ball demolishing St Elmo Courts on Hereford Street. Behind it is the Christchurch City Council Building.

The Wrecking Crew Move On

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A digger being loaded onto the back of a truck. The photographer comments, "After clearing away the remains of a building in Christchurch, New Zealand destroyed by the February 22 earthquake the digger can now be transported to its next destination for destruction".

Spotted Amongst the Wreckage of the Ozone

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A black and white photograph of a sign reading "A tidy standard of dress is required." In the foreground is a pile of building rubble. The photographer comments, "I reversed this picture in the interests of my followers as it was harder to read the right way round. The wrecking crew did not wear ties, but they did look neat in their orange vests".

QuakeStory Photo 327

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A photograph submitted by Gaynor James to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "DTZ building going, 20 July 2011. A small crowd watches the demolition …There is an eerie silence- no excited buzz – people watching yet another part of their history turning into rubble. The wrecking ball, delicately positioned, drops and is followed by the cracking and rending of floor after floor and the debris tumbles down … It starts to clear and an extraordinary sight greets us. Hundreds and hundreds of sheets of paper drift down like giant confetti.".