Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cleared site on Avonside Drive".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Drive".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Drive".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Drive".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Drive. The swimming pool is still sitting above ground, where the earthquake lifted it back in September, 2010".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Medway St footbridge (aka wobbly bridge)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Drive looking down North Avon Road".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Avonside Drive and Morris Street (left of the river) and River Road with Lois Place (right of the river)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Large scale roadworks at the intersection of Avonside Drive, Woodham Road, and Linwood Avenue".
A two-storey house in Avonside Drive with a warped upper balcony. The photographer comments, "This house is on Avonside Drive opposite the Avon River. The land in this area spread laterally and had bad liquefaction of the soil. This caused some houses to sink into the ground, but as the balcony supports did not sink as much the balcony came to rest at a crazy angle".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "May 05, 2012".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The River Avon close to the gate of Avonside Girls High School. The river forms part of the lovely setting for the school, along with the mature trees".
A sewage pumping station on Avonside Drive near the intersection with Robson Avenue has been lifted out of the ground by liquefaction. The photographer comments, "A Sunday afternoon ride to New Brighton, then back via Aranui, Wainoni, Dallington, and Richmond. Not a cheerful experience. Pumping station. Another hydraulically-lifted sewage pumping station, this time on Avonside Drive".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Medway St footbridge (aka wobbly bridge)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Medway St footbridge (aka wobbly bridge)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Medway St footbridge (aka wobbly bridge)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Medway St footbridge (aka wobbly bridge)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Medway St footbridge (aka wobbly bridge)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking across the Avon from Avonside Drive to 347/349 River Road".
A wooden house in Wainoni has visibly bowed inwards towards its centre. The photographer comments, "During the numerous earthquakes in Christchurch the land which ran alongside the Avon river on Avonside Drive slumped towards the waterway. In a line parallel to the road the road, but around 20m away a ground movement occurred which caused some houses to rise up or sink down".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Oxford Terrace pump house".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Road working machines blocking the entrance to Ottawa Street".
Large cracks run through the brick cladding of this house in Wainoni. The photographer comments, "During the numerous earthquakes in Christchurch the land which ran alongside the Avon river on Avonside Drive slumped towards the waterway. Houses which were wooden framed and had an external brick veneer started to sink into the liquefied soil. This caused the brick walls to crack, but the houses' occupants though shook up were saved by the wooden framework from the houses collapsing on them".
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A sewage pumping station on Avonside Drive has been lifted out of the ground by liquefaction. In the background, the damaged Snell Place footbridge over the Avon River is closed off with cordon fencing. The photographer comments, "A Sunday afternoon ride to New Brighton, then back via Aranui, Wainoni, Dallington, and Richmond. Not a cheerful experience. Dallington footbridge. The two pieces of this foot bridge have moved towards each other, so the bridge has developed quite a peak. The sewage pumping station has been heaved out of the ground by hydraulic pressure during quakes".
A badly damaged house in Burwood. Parts of the house have moved in different directions, leaving walls and doors misaligned. The photographer comments, "Although this looks like an extreme wide angle shot it is actually a house tilted in every direction at the same time. The earthquake caused the ground to vibrate and compress so much that the sandy soil liquefied and caused the ground to collapse under this modern home".