River Road, Avonside

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File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1174 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

River Road, Avonside

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File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1179 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

River Road, Avonside

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File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1172 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

Flowers on the Avon, River Road

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File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1173 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

20121117_2387_G12-06 New Brighton Road flooded again

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With the land dropping about 1metre to 1.4metres after the earthquakes, a few roads besides the Avon and Heathcote Rivers are flooded with very high tides. Extra stop banks (on right) erected after the quakes have helped, but the road is now well below high water level. New Brighton Road, just short of New Brighton. The Pages Road bridge may b...

20120321_2416_1D3-24 Fallen Cone

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A month after the 1st anniversary of the deadly Christchurch earthquake (22/02/11) a road cone lies on New Brighton Road, alongside the Avon River. Part of the earthquake 1st anniversary remembrance was for people to place flowers in road cones (and there are hundreds of thousands in the city). Many had flowers in them, as this one did. Photo ...