Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Hororata Spring Fair for restoration of St Johns Church. A local takes a short cut at the fair".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Hororata Spring Fair for restoration of St Johns Church. A local takes a short cut at the fair".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Hororata Spring Fair for restoration of St Johns Church. Caleb Barr (3), centre, finds the treasure in the haystack".
The historic Te Koraha building at Rangi Ruru Girls' School under going significant restoration to bring it up to the new building code.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 24 May 2012 entitled, "Peculiar Pipes".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 24 April 2013 entitled, "Horological Happening".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
A video of a public forum being held to discuss the Anglican Church's three options for the restoration of the ChristChurch Cathedral. The three options are restoring the original cathedral, reinterpreting the original cathedral in modern materials, or building a contemporary cathedral. The video includes footage of speeches by Bishop Victoria Matthews and RCP project manager Marcus Read. It also includes footage of Matthews, Read, and Warren and Mahoney architect Bill Gregory answering questions from the public.
A video of a tour of the historic Canterbury Club building on Cambridge Terrace. The club will reopen on 9 June 2012, after an intensive rebuild and restoration process which has fixed the damage from the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The video also includes an interview with Dr Brent Stanley, the Canterbury Club President. Stanley talks about the strengthening work that was done in 2009, as well as the history of the club.
A video about the reopening of New Regent Street which is expected to take place on 20 April 2013. The video includes an interview with Liz Phelna, owner of Shop 8, about her decision to open a shop in New Regent Street. It also includes an interview with project manager Ed Leeson about the restoration and strengthening processes. Leeson says that five shops will be part of the reopening of the street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road is having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui Road is having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 16 November 2010 entitled, "Sewerage Suckers".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 20 May 2012 entitled, "Cloven Clocktower".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 19 May 2012 entitled, "Road Repairs".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 14 May 2012 entitled, "Midnight Maintenance".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 13 May 2013 entitled, "Restored Roadsigns".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 25 May 2011 entitled, "Airport Alterations".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 2 July 2011 entitled, "Saturday Scenes".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 25 June 2014 entitled, "Ecclesiastical Enhancement".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake cleanup. The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake cleanup. The Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church on Papanui road having its spire carefully removed so that restoration work can be considered".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 25 November 2011 entitled, "Brand new Brick dust".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 16 March 2011 entitled, "Day 23, 6pm - still inside the red zone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 30 July 2012 entitled, "Transferring Traffic".