Abandoned shed on Birch Street (2)

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Mess inside an abandoned shed in a residential property on Birch Street.

Rubbish in a residential property on Birch Street (2)

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Rubbish abandoned in a residential property on Birch Street.

Weeds growing in a residential property on Birch Street (6)

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Weeds growing in a residential property on Birch Street.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1947

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The Medway Street footbridge in Richmond has warped beyond repair in the February 2011 earthquake.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1948

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The Medway Street footbridge in Richmond has warped beyond repair in the February 2011 earthquake.

Dallington 8

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A photograph captioned, "So it's been an eventful couple of years. I think the first earthquake, it was just so totally unexpected. You went to bed one night and when you woke up - in just a few seconds- everything was different than it had been before".

Dallington 11

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A photograph captioned, "I miss living here, right by the river. I'd been there for quite a long time, 12 years or so. I realize now I took it for granted a bit. I used to get a bit bored with having a big old house that was cold, difficult to clean, and perhaps hard to keep warm. But now, when I go back there, I miss living in a big house by the river with an open fire and a big lounge and everything. I had the park there on the other side of the river. And there was a little bridge down there where you could walk over to it. There was actually a circuit you could do, up to the New Brighton Bridge and back. Yeah, it was beautiful".

Dallington 14

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A photograph captioned, "Lovely big weeds, they're pretty aren't they. Amongst all this".

Dallington 16

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A photograph captioned, "It feels like it has been a really on-going process. We weren't in the head space for it really, because when you retire, you think you're in your retirement home and you're there to stay. You don't expect to have to move on. To do all this".

Dallington 18

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A photograph captioned, "We went to Nigel's place for breakfast and stayed for three months".

Dallington 5

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A photograph captioned, "In the 1930s the traffic in Gayhurst Road was so light that I can remember playing hockey and cricket with apple boxes for wickets. If a car or cart came along there was plenty of time to shift the boxes to let them past".

Dallington 7

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A photograph captioned, "My daughter grew up in this house. She's 10 now. She is going to miss it - and Dallington. It's where she's grown up, what she knows. She'll miss it alright. Me too".

Bexley 11

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Caption reads: "Yeah yeah, I know, but you’ve got to look. It’s incredible what’s happened to these places. It’s not something you see everyday and once it’s gone, it’s gone forever."

Bexley 15

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Caption reads: "You can’t do a thing about it but I can’t be bothered going house hunting. I’ll just live each day as best I can. I keep thinking it could change again. The dust here doesn’t bother me, the noise doesn’t bother me. When they start pulling down houses the vibrations don’t bother me. Nothing bothers me. We’re all like that. That’s how you have to be when you can’t do a thing about it."

Bexley 19

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Caption reads: "At the moment we’re trying to carry on like everything is normal. It’s not easy. It’s hard sometimes to remember what things were like before the earthquake."

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1978

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A photograph of cracks in a garden. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "River Road, Avonside".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1975

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A photograph of a letterbox. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "River Road, Avonside".

Julia Holden's 2012 Photographs 099

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A photograph of an empty section in Bexley.

Dallington 1

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A photograph showing the damaged streetscape of Dallington, following the series of earthquakes in Christchurch.

Flooding in residential properties in Bexley

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Flooding in residential properties in Bexley.

Horseshoe Lake 7

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A digital photograph in PDF format. Image taken from within the Horseshoe Lake Reserve, of the local wildlife.

Horseshoe Lake 3

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A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. Image looking East, on Kingsford St. Memorial Day remembrance flowers, on the side of the street.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0863

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An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Atlantis Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0862

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An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Waygreen Avenue".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0864

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An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Atlantis Street".

Dallington 6

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A photograph captioned, "Nobody’s trained for this, you go to your lawyer and they can’t give you an answer because they've never faced this before, so yeah, even they are scratching around trying to find out".

Bexley 20

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Caption reads: "It used to be lovely. We would go out walking all the time and we always went through the wetlands. There was all the beautiful flax and bushes that were around the track, and now it’s gone. All gone."

Bexley 1

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Caption reads: "There’s nothing we can do about what we’ve lost. We just keep hoping for the best."

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0859

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An aerial photograph of a residential area.

Bexley 3

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Caption reads: "At night we light up the house like a Christmas tree so that people know we’re here."