A sign on the sidewalk advertising The Vintage Peddler, a vintage bicycles business that offer bike hires and tailored City tours.
A sign advertising 'Silty' bricks at the Canterbury A&P Show. The sign reads, "Have you got your silty? Proceeds raised from the sale of 'Silty' bricks will go to two Christchurch organisations - Greening the Rubble and Gap Filler".
A sign advertising Riccarton House Bistro, hung on the security fence surrounding Riccarton House. The house has been closed for restoration.
Vehicles drive through a flooded road in New Brighton. A sign advertising the stronger Christchurch website reads, 'Rebuilding for our future'.
A photograph of a sign advertising the Festival of Flowers, 17 February to 4 March 2012 at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.
The site of the demolished Westende Jewellers building advertising a new building to be constructed on a site. A sign advertising a new building to be built on the site offers potential tenants the opportunity to "Be part of a new chapter".
A cordon check-point at the corner of Barbadoes and Lichfield Streets. In the foreground, a sign reading "Warrant of fitness", advertising a nearby automotive shop, leans against the "Road closed" sign. Behind the cordon, a soldier sleeps on top of the cab of an army truck.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Painted advertising which was revealed when the Grumpy Mole was demolished on the Corner of Cashel and Manchester Streets. The text says 'Printer, lithographer, bookbinder, manufacturer of paper bags, tea packets and cardboard boxes. NZ Agent for making Stevenson's patent leatherboard boxes. Paper merchants, wholesale stationer, account books, Crown printing office'".
A photograph of a sign outside the Christchurch Art Gallery advertising the "Debuilding" exhibition which was on display when the 22 February 2011 earthquake hit.
A photograph of the entrance way to SAMO Coffee Lounge on Canterbury Street in Lyttelton. A sign on the footpath is advertising the Cafe as well as the Loons.
A photograph of a building in Cashel Mall. The demolition of the adjoining building has exposed an old advertising sign on the awning, reading, "High grade footwear at keen prices".
An old advertising sign for Polson's decorators and signwriters exposed on the side of a building on Manchester Street. Behind is the facade of the Excelsior Hotel, protected by shipping containers.
A woman walks through a car park towards an entrance to Re:Start mall. A large sign advertising Cosmic Corner, one of the shops in the mall, is on the side of a container.
An old advertising sign for Polson's decorators and signwriters exposed on the side of a building on Manchester Street. Peaking over the top are shipping containers that are protecting the facade of the Excelsior Hotel.
A large sign outside QEII stadium advertising a IPC Athletics World Championships event 21-30 January 2011. The photographer comments, "A Sunday afternoon ride to New Brighton, then back via Aranui, Wainoni, Dallington, and Richmond. Not a cheerful experience. QE2 sign. This must have still been in place on Feb 22, 2011. It advertises an athletics meet three weeks earlier".
Looking in the cordon fence, the damaged Gough House, with windows boarded up and the Vintage Watch store on Hereford Street. On the fence is a sign that says 'Road closed' and another one advertising a Wilson's carpark
A sign on the site of the demolished Westende Jewellers building advertising a new building to be constructed on a site. It offers potential tenants the opportunity to "Be part of a new chapter", with "Building to commence early 2011".
Members of the Shirley community relaxing around a table set up by the World Mission Society Church of God on North Parade in Shirley. A member of the church can be seen holding a sign advertising free sausages.
A sign outside St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square advertising new venues for church services. Behind it the front wall of the church can be seen with the plywood and tarpaulins that have been used to weather proof the gaps where masonry has fallen away.
A sign outside St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square advertising new venues for church services. Behind it the front wall of the church can be seen with the plywood and tarpaulins that have been used to weather proof the gaps where masonry has fallen away.
A member of the public takes a closer look into the cordon, looking down to Hereford Street to the damaged Gough House, with windows boarded up and part of the Vintage Watch store. On the fence is a sign that says 'Road closed' and another one advertising a Wilson's carpark.
The A and T Burt building on Ferry Road in Woolston. Bricks from the top section of the building have fallen away. Signs advertising two businesses housed in the building, Superheat and Junk and Disorderly, can be seen sitting in front of it. The footpath is covered with brick dust and small pieces of masonry from when the larger pieces were cleared away.
Balloons and a sign advertising a garage sale hang from a fence. The photographer comments, "Today, 23/7/2011 the Bexley community in Christchurch got together and held a Bexley wide garage sale. You could pick up a map of the garage sales in Arncliffe St, which meant that people could find all the garage sales even if they were on the back sections. People got together with close neighbours to hold joint Garage Sales. In the area where the garage sales were held all the homes have been 'written off' by the government, as the land on which they sit is too damaged by the Christchurch earthquakes to repair. In places it looked more like a ships graveyard with the hulls of the houses sinking lopsidedly into the sand. Unfortunately for nearly everyone in the red zone they cannot rebuild a new home as sections to build on start now around $2,000 and the government is not paying them enough to buy a plot of land and build a new home. The choices for Bexley residents in most cases is to rent, buy a house at least a few years old or move to Australia to start again. I was told that up to 80% could be off to Oz".
A view across Montreal Street to the Christchurch Art Gallery. The building was used as the headquarters for Civil Defence in the aftermath of the 22 February 2011 earthquake, and large white marquees have been set up in its forecourt to accommodate extra personnel. The site is surrounded by a safety fence. On the left is a sign advertising the "Van der Velden: Otira" exhibition, which was cut short by the earthquake.