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Manchester St

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

view to some of the damage in the distance and the building that might be demolished - brick seven storey building - i've always liked this one : ( .

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Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Nothing wrong with this carpark building; that's just a mural on one of the structural shear walls.

20130630_9138_1D3-58 IRD Building (Day 181/365)

The old (or is that the new) Inland Revenue Department (IRD) building on the corner of Madras and Cashel Streets in central Christchurch. Built in 2006/07 on the site of the former Farmers department store (itself badly damaged by fire), it was just a few years old when the earthquake of February 2011 struck, and subsequent quakes (all through 2...

The shopping must go on!

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Merrivale Mall continues after the massive aftershock sustained by Christchurch on 22nd February 2011.

Rose Historic Chapel 2007 (see text + link below)

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Sadly the Chapel has been badly damaged in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit Christchurch 22 February 2011 - see photo at www.flickr.com/photos/geofftrotter/5570195671/in/photostr... The Rose Historic Chapel formerly St Mary’s Convent Chapel is the sole su...

The Arts Centre of Christchurch - Dreaming Spires

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

This winter-eve is warm, Humid the air! leafless, yet soft as spring, The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening, Lovely all times she lies, lovely to-night!— From "Thyrsis: A Monody" by Matthew Arnold 1822–1888