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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake in Christchurch. Quillan Dextar (5) rides past the demolition of shops on the corner of Edgeware Road and Barbados Street".
Shop parapet toppled in the magnitude 7 earthquake in Christchurch on Saturday 4-9-2010. This building was condemned and demolished on 9 September 2010.
Shop parapet toppled in the magnitude 7 earthquake in Christchurch on Saturday 4-9-2010. This building was condemned and demolished on 9 September 2010.
Holes looking like war damage on this shop along Manchester Street; aftermath of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
I could have sworn there was another storey above the corner shop; aftermath of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on 4 September 2010.
Matt Brown is a barber - but he does much more than cut hair. After the Christchurch earthquakes he set up a barber shop - in a shed in his backyard.
Damage to a row of shops on Barbadoes Street. The brick facades have collapsed, crushing the awnings. The building is cordoned off with road cones and police tape.
A row of damaged shops on Victoria Street at the intersection with Bealey Avenue. The street has been cordoned off with road cones and a sign that says 'road closed'.
View down Tuam Street. On the left is the building housing the Real Groovy music shop, which relocated there after the September earthquake. Beside it is the former Odeon Theatre.
Oscar von Sierakowski’s factory and shop was built on the corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets in 1906. It boasted that it was the largest wire work factory in the colonies, producing decorati…
This shop on Riccarton Road was badly damaged in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010, and had to be demolished.
This shop at the Colombo Street / Tuam Street corner lost its side wall in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
This shop at the Colombo Street / Tuam Street corner lost its side wall in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
A digitally manipulated photograph of a shop security shutter. The photographer comments, "Sometimes before you feel the ground rolling any metal shutters around start their rattling noises as if someone is shaking them".
Damage to a row of shops in Shirley. The parapets and awnings have collapsed, and the footpath is littered with rubble. The building has been cordoned off with police tape.
Our last guest is one half of the duo known in Christchurch as the Brilliant Bagshaws Dr Sue Bagshaw has worked in the youth health sector for 30 years. She's set up and been involved in so many organisations benefitting young people it would make your head spin. She chairs the Korowai Youth Well-Being Trust running the Youth One Stop Shop 298 Youth Health, where she runs teaching clinics and is in the process of setting up the Christchurch Youth Hub - Te Hurihanga o Rangatahi, a collaboration of health and social services and transitional housing for youth. Dr Bagshaw established the 198 youth one stop shop in 1995 and helped run it for 15 years. She's advised a network of similar organisations around the country, now known as the Network of Youth One Stop Shops. Following the Christchurch earthquakes, she brought together 16 youth organisations to form the first youth hub in Barbadoes Street in 2012. Colin: Dr Bagshaw is now Dame Susan Bagshaw. I asked her if she thinks she'll ever get used to being called Dame Susan
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. Liquefaction at the St Martins Shopping Centre and New World supermarket in St Martins, Christchurch".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A chandelier is recovered by a Southern Demolition excavator operator from a damaged shop, Shrimpton Radcliffe Design on Victoria Street, following the Canterbury earthquakes".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage from the February 22nd earthquake in Christchurch. Liquefaction at the St Martins Shopping Centre and New World supermarket in St Martins, Christchurch".
The Dick Smith Electronics shops at St Asaph Street / Colombo Street was extensively damaged in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
The Dick Smith Electronics shops at St Asaph Street / Colombo Street was extensively damaged in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
The Dick Smith Electronics shops at St Asaph Street / Colombo Street was extensively damaged in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
The Dick Smith Electronics shops at St Asaph Street / Colombo Street was extensively damaged in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
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The Canterbury Earthquake Royal Commission has heard that a breakdown in communication between structural engineers, a property manager and owner led the tenants of a building to wrongly assume their shop was safe.
The government is hoping a new one-stop shop will help homeowners in Canterbury still struggling with insurance claims, but as Logan Church reports, this isn't the first initiative of its kind in the quake-rattled city.
View of the corner of Montreal and Victoria Street. In the background is a vacant lot left by buildings that has been demolished, and on the right is Gordon Smith & Sons fruit and vegetable shop.
A scanned copy of page 4 of an issue of Canta published in July 1975. The page features an advertisement for UBS.
The facade of this shop on Manchester Street was reduced to a heap of rubble during the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.
A video of Charlie Gates investigating the Christchurch City Council's plan to rejuvenate New Brighton mall. Gates interviews Sherry Dhamija, owner of Penguin House Dairy, Kate Thomas, manager of New Brighton Florist, and Colleen Biggs of Pegasus Tattoo about how business is going and what they think the area needs to be revitalised.