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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Victoria Street".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Victoria Street".

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1839

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Detail of the Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1840

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Detail of the Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2525

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Clock tower on Victoria St stopped at the time of the 22nd February earthquake.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 2192

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A photograph of the Edmonds Clock on Oxford Terrace, protected with plastic wrapping and steel braces.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 2190

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A photograph of the Edmonds Clock on Oxford Terrace, protected with plastic wrapping and steel braces.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 2173

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A photograph of the Edmonds Clock on Oxford Terrace, protected with plastic wrapping and steel braces.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 2172

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A photograph of the Edmonds Clock on Oxford Terrace, protected with plastic wrapping and steel braces.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 2193

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A photograph of the Edmonds Clock on Oxford Terrace, protected with plastic wrapping and steel braces.

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The damaged New Regent Street facades. The clock has stopped at 12.51 pm on 22 February 2011.

Photo by Jennifer Middendorf 076

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Liquefaction silt and broken paving in front of the floral clock in Victoria Square, seen through cordon fencing.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2094

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Detail of the clock tower on the former railway station building on Moorhouse Avenue at the bottom of Madras Street.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2527

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Victoria Mansons and the Clock tower on Victoria St which is stopped at the time of the February 22nd earthquake.

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A photograph of flowers in a road cone. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Decorated cones for the February 22 anniversary near the Victoria Street Clock Tower".

The Clock Tower – neglected by the Government, admired by the People

Articles, Lost Christchurch

As Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee drew near in 1897, plans were being put in place throughout the Dominion for suitable memorials. In Christchurch, a number of funds were set up and subscri…

September 1888 – the most destructive earthquake since the Canterbury Pilg…

Articles, Lost Christchurch

Shortly after 4 o’clock this morning the whole of the South and a portion of the North Island was shaken by a violent shock of earthquake, the most severe experienced for more than 20 years……

Nisbet, Alistair, 1958- :Scientists create model to predict quakes...12 Ja…

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Scientists stand before a model that will predict earthquakes. The model is a large arm attached to wires and switches with a thumb that flicks coins '"Heads" we have big quake at five-o-clock... "tails" we don't'. Context: short term predictions (hours to days) are in general unlikely to be possible, at present. Relates to the Christchurch earthquakes which experts have said could go on for years. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).