A photograph of a Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team member talking to a member of the Professional Building Services on Gloucester Street. In the background is the Press House building with many cracks in the façade. Bits of bricks and other debris are scattered across the footpath. Some of the windows above the facade have broken. USAR codes have been spray-painted on one of the bottom-storey windows.
A photograph of graffiti on one of the walls of the kitchen in Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace. Parts of the graffiti read, "Quakes, a national disaster", "Recovery, a national disgrace", "Ring fn EQC, ring fn insurance", "Useless fn council", "Don't let the bastards get you down", "Avon Loop - park or developers fodder?", and "Never trust a Carter". There are also shopping and to-do lists scrawled amongst these messages.
20130911_8095_EOS M-33 Another one ready to leave Another salvaged house from the Bexley (Pacific Park) red zone is on the truck and may start it's journey to a new location overnight. #4204
Empty sections where houses once stood at 24A and 24B Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The sections are overgrown with weeds.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Wainoni Road garage sale. From far right: Jason Fogarty and Katz Cowley who are moving house and selling stuff".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "238-246 High Street with the Link Centre and Te Waiponamu House behind (both to be deconstructed)".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Four families huddle together in a Redcliffs house that still has no power. Story Keith Christchurch Press."
A cliff above Redcliffs showing signs of recent collapse. A fence from one of the houses above is now jutting over the edge.
A photograph of an empty site where a house has been demolished. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Andre Marchand at the site of the heritage building in Colombo Street that housed his business before the earthquake".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A house on the Winchester and Oxford Street corner with rubble from their place on the footpath".
A photograph of bricks stacked outside a house in the Christchurch central city. Bricks can also be seen in the green bins behind.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to Wharetiki on Colombo Street. One of the walls has buckled and pulled away from the house.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Andre Marchand at the site of the heritage building in Colombo Street that housed his business before the earthquake".
Demolition of the top storey of Fuze Restaurant and Cafe. The building formerly housed the Harbour Board Offices, and was built in 1880.
A photograph of a house with an overgrown garden. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Jean Batten Place, Horseshoe Lake, Burwood".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. Chimney repair work at a house on Hackthorne Road, Cashmere".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Fissure on the banks of the River Avon near the site of the demolished Plunket House".
Empty sections where houses once stood at 26 Waygreen Avenue in New Brighton. The sections are overgrown with weeds and have partly flooded.
A photograph of dried liquefaction covering the floor of a house. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "8A Waygreen Avenue".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A house at 402 Oxford Terrace which has slumped badly. This area is now red zone land".
This house along Bealey Ave lost its chimney stack in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
This house along Bealey Ave lost its chimney stack in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
A small house is shown on an enormous foundation block labelled 'Rate$'. The cartoonist's comment is 'Like for like for the house...Total dislike for the foundation!' In Christchurch there were prospects of large rises in householders' rate to help finance the Christchurch Rebuild project. In view of the damage to housing, rate increases may be badly disproportionate. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
A truck carries a house to a new position and the family in the house wonder if they 'can stay on the truck permanently'. Context - Continuing housing problems in Christchurch following the earthquakes of 4 September 2010 and February 22 and June 13 2011. Many aftershocks are still happening and the ground is unstable in many places. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Another house has gone from Seabreeze Close, Pacific Park, Bexley, leaving just the concrete base, a few floor tiles and the smashed toilet (throne). Houses are being demolished (85%) or deconstructed/shifted (15%) as a result of land damage in the major earthquakes of 4th September 2010, 22nd February 2011, 13th June 2011 and 23rd December 2...
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street looking across Manchester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Latimer Square and IRD building (centre)".
A graphic showing 19th-century artifacts found during the demolition of a 1970s building.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Morganwood St and Brynn Lane, Bexley".