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20130320_1044_EOS M-29 lifted house (Day 79/365)
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A red-zone house just a few down the road from where we used to live in Velsheda Street, with bricks (brick veneer?) off and lifted prior to transporting away.
20130911_8095_EOS M-33 Another one ready to leave
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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.
20130611_7558_EOS M-22 Cut in half and onto the truck (Day 162/365)
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19 Velsheda Street, Pacific Park, Bexley is about to be trucked out.
20130328_1143_EOS M-55 Red zone weeds (Day 87/365)
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Growing in a red zone vacant section in Wetlands Grove, Pacific Park.
20130524_7221_1D3-58 Pipes
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20130704_7677_EOS M-22 Another one on the way out (Day 185/365)
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A suburban "red zone" house from Velsheda Street (#11), Pacific Park, is finally cut in half and loaded ready for transport out and a future life somewhere else in the South Island, whether it be close by or way down south in Gore or Clinton (where a few have gone already). The house has been stripped of it's bricks and jacked up for over four m...
20160307_0036_EOS M-41 Summit Road closed
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20161018_9063_7D2-70 Restricted Area (292/366)
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In the suburban red zone on Avonside Drive.
20130610_7556_EOS M-22 HireQuip toilet (Day 161/365)
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Sitting on the concrete in front of what was my model railway room - a single car garage at the rear of our house in Pacific Park. Reason it is here - one of the houses behind my old house is going to be trucked out. See previous photo.
20130511_1535_EOS M-22 Captain Cook (Day 131/365)
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The statue of Captain Cook looks over an empty Victoria Square with autumn leaves lying around. This used to be a very tidy and busy area, but is now nearly all fenced off. Pedestrian access to this section was established about five or six months ago.
20131110_8308_EOS M-28 Lupins in the Red Zone
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Another empty Red Zone section. Avonside Drive, Dallington.
20130827_2683_1D3-28 Thanks 4 the Memories exhibit
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Worcester Blvd. Lawrence Roberts works for Photo & Video in Christchurch, suppliers of much of my photo gear in exchange for cash!
20131110_8305_EOS M-27 Empty and overgrown (Day 314/365)
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A house, one of the few still remaining in the Dallington Red Zone (Avonside Drive, Dallington). The area is "red zoned" due to land damage from earthquakes (mainly the February 22nd 2011 6.4 magnitude quake).
20130902_2891_1D3-165 The view down the drive
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Sewer repairs due to earthquake damage have our street totally closed off apart from pedestrian traffic down the footpath.
20130621_7828_1D3-130 Temporary Snow! (Day 172/365)
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20130325_1112_EOS M-25 Water water everywhere! (Day 84/365)
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While the whole of the North Island is under drought conditions and parts of the South Island likely to follow suit, I doubt it will happen in Christchurch. With hundreds of earthquake road, water and sewer repairs underway many are spilling hundreds of litres of water per minute, like this one outside my house. It has been running like this fo...
20131110_8306_EOS M-55 Beauty in the Red Zone
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There is some beauty in the desolate and near empty Dallington Red Zone.
20130206_0211_EOS M-55 Town Hall and Ferrier Fountain
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20160703_144759_GT-S7275T-04 New sea wall at Redcliffs (185/366)
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20160703_144759_GT-S7275T-04 New sea wall at Redcliffs (185/366) I went for a drive in my second car mainly to charge the battery up and forgot to take my camera gear so only had my phone. This is the new rock wall to replace the severely damaged previous one (in the February 2011 earthquake). Work is still underway on the car parking and p...
20130704_7680_EOS M-22 Another one on the way out!
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The Mack tractor unit with "half a house" ready to depart in the middle of the night, when the roads are quiet. But where is this house heading too?
20130106_1236_1D3-60 Cathedral (006/365)
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Deconstruction has been halted, but this was the front of Christchurch's most famous landmark. The tower/spire was above the nearest bit of remains.
20130808_2300_1D3-40 Warning (Day 220/365)
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Across the river were a row of several houses - all gone now. That side of the river is "Red Zone" and will be devoid of houses soon. #4077
20130312_0935_EOS M-18 T-Rex (Day 71/365)
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Went for a drive down to South New Brighton/Southshore after work today to see what interesting birds I could find on the Estuary (godwits, skuas, terns etc), but passing Jellico Street, I saw this. T-Rex the seismic survey truck from the University of Texas that is visiting the city (first time out of USA). Weighs 30 tonne and from the marks o...
20131212_6234_1D3-24 Another New Brighton building comes down (Day 346/365)
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The old Esplanade Tavern is being demolished due to damage suffered in the earthquakes of 2011. Another one of New Brighton's iconic buildings to go.
20130123_1662_1D3-35 Canterbury substation (Day 23/365)
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The electrical supply substation built into the Lion Breweries Canterbury Draught brewery in St Asaph Street, Christchurch. Now the whole complex is being demolished due to earthquake damage.
20130618_7676_1D3-105 Brick Substation
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20130618_7684_1D3-200 Sumner Road Closed
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20170918_6084_7D2-41 Demolition still happening (260/365)
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Six ½ years after the earthquakes there are still a few demolitions taking place. This one is a block of council owned flats. Whether the whole complex is being demolished or not I don't know., but here the centre block of three is being demolished. The green grass is what was sections and houses demolished in 2012-2015 as it is too close to t...
20130416_1284_EOS M-33 200 metres
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A bit of the now demolished QEII (Queen Elizabeth II) Park running track in the "Gap Filler" on the old Deka site in New Brighton (last occupied by a charity barn before a major fire and subsequent demolition).
20130921_3607_1D3-200 Last light on Castle Rock
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A very different looking Castle Rock to what was there pre earthquakes.