A photograph of a trailer loaded with items from the Residential Access Project being driven down High Street. The project gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes.
A story submitted by Lin to the QuakeStories website.
A photograph of workers loading a trailer with items salvaged from people's homes during the Residential Access Project. The project gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes.
A photograph of the front porch of Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace. A sign on the porch reads, "Avon Loop Harvest Market".
Machinery on a truck bed. The photographer comments, "Seeing this near the Christchurch earthquake red zone I was wondering if they are now going to use a giant catapult to knock down some of the remaining quake damaged buildings".
Fallen potplants and jumbled paving bricks outside Stewart Dawsons in Cashel Mall. A public walkway down Colombo Street to a small viewing area in the Square was opened up for a few weekends to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone.
Weeds growing through the paving outside the old Post Office building in Cathedral Square. A public walkway through to a small viewing area in the Square was opened up for a few weekends to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone.
A view through a gap in the partially-demolished Crowne Plaza Hotel to the Forsyth Barr building.
Building rubble from a partially-demolished building is piled behind and partly against a large display window.
A sign on a cordon fence on St Asaph Street reads "Stop. You must be inducted before entry." The photographer comments, "Safety comes first when it comes to demolition in the earthquake red zone in Christchurch, New Zealand".
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 5 June 2012, looking over Hereford Street with the Re:Start container mall visible in the bottom right. The Cathedral can be seen in the middle right, Oxford Terrace to the left.
A snapshot from GPS Boomerang's SmartBird flight over the Christchurch red zone on 23 December 2012, looking over the Town Hall and Victoria Square with the site of the Crowne Plaza Hotel visible in the bottom left, GapFiller's Pallet Pavillion now in the space.
For the first time in November 2011, Christchurch residents finally had the opportunity to see the earthquake-damaged city centre on the Red Zone bus tours organised by CERA. Looking down the new Re:Start Mall as the bus goes down Colombo Street.
A photograph of workers from HireQuip loading a trailer with items from people's homes during the Residential Access Project. The project gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes.
A photograph captioned by Elizabeth Ackerman, "Brandon, Lance and Elizabeth". The photograph was taken during the Residential Access Project which gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Transcript of Leslie Llewellyn James Griffiths's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Blair Anderson's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Jan's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Vic Bartley's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Michelle Durham's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Summary of oral history interview with Joy Brownie about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
The Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's "Community Earthquake Update" bulletin, published on Friday 26 August 2011.
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 20 December 2013
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 7 March 2014
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 31 January 2014
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 3 September 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 14 September 2012
Since the Christchurch earthquakes propelled Paul Fleming from his Chancery Lane shop in central Christchurch, he has begun a business called 'Happy Tours' featuring an immaculate Austin Seven called Myrtle. Myrtle takes Spectrum's Deborah Nation into Christchurch's central city Red Zone. Christchurch poet Helen Jacobs also tours in Myrtle.
A worker repairs a leaning power pole in Bexley. The photographer comments, "I was told that this electricity pole in Bexley always leans after every big earthquake. Maybe it might take more than a one man and one shovel to put 'straight'".
A PDF copy of pages 324-325 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Scaffold Pavilion'.