High-rise buildings in the CBD seen over a concrete wall. From the left are the Hotel Grand Chancellor, the Westpac building and the Holiday Inn City Centre.
The Hotel Grand Chancellor seen through the arch of the Bridge of Remembrance. In the foreground is a One News vehicle, and a film crew are filming from the bridge.
A photograph of traffic barriers on the corner of Colombo and Tuam Street in central Christchurch.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The plaque on the Heritage Apartments, 28 Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking east down Cashel Mall from the Bridge of Remembrance".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Forsyth Barr building and Copthorne Central".
In 1907, a former public house on the corner of Durham and Battersea Street, Sydenham, was opened as the first women’s maternity hospital in Christchurch. Founded by the Right Honorable Richa…
Drunkeness was a serious problem in Christchurch by the late 1870s. It didn’t help that for a city of its size, there were 47 hotels and breweries as opposed to just 10 dentists and chemist …
A video of a tour through the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of Armagh Street, Madras Street, Latimer Square, St John's Anglican Church, Hereford Street, the Octagon Live restaurant, the Design and Arts building, the High Street mall, and the Grand Chancellor Hotel. It also includes footage of construction workers cutting up metal beams, and clearing rubble from a building on Manchester Street.
Much of the CBD is still cordoned off and without power (as you should be able to spot) as a result of the damage caused by February's deadly earthquake. This photo clearly shows the extent of the lean that the Hotel Grand Chancellor is now on. Apparently it is out by 1m at the top leaning east. Demolition will start about mid June and is expec...
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking across to the Isaac Theatre Royal from the corner of Cathedral Square. The edge of Warners Hotel on the left".
An amphitheatre in Victoria Square where water from the Avon River has overflowed. In the background, the Crowne Plaza can be seen.
More than ten weeks after being damaged beyond repair by the Christchurch earthquake, there is still no decision about how or when the Grand Chancellor Hotel will be demolished.
A view of Cashel Mall, looking east from the Bridge of Remembrance. Rubble from a collapsed store can be seen.
Passers-by looking at the damage to Cashel Mall from the cordon in front of the Bridge of Remembrance.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "197-203 Hereford Street viewed from Latimer Square - Demolition site of Avonmore House".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking down High Street from Hanafins Corner (Hereford Street)".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cashel Mall - Whitcoulls site".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "High Street from the intersection with Colombo and Hereford Streets".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Corner of Tuam and Mancester Streets".
A photograph of the sign next to the entrance of the Lancaster Hotel on Ferry Road. A red sticker on the door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".
Passers-by looking at the damage to Cashel Mall from the cordon in front of the Bridge of Remembrance.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Workers up high - working conditions most of us wouldn't want!".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Armagh Street".
Colour close up photograph of windows and balconies on the Crowne Plaza; it can be seen that they are no longer perfectly aligned.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking down High Street from Hanafins Corner (Hereford Street) - Triangle Chambers".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A view looking down Victoria Street towards the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Keep an eye on this as nearly all these buildings are due for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Aerial view of ChristChurch Cathedral and Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Latimer Square".