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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Liquefaction mounds on the Estuary. Looking towards 'Ferrymead Towers'".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1173

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A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Liquefaction mounds on the Estuary. Looking towards 'Ferrymead Towers'".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking over Whitewash Head to Sumner and the Avon Estuary".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bromley settling ponds".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "An aerial photograph of Bridge Street in New Brighton, showing the extensive effects of liquefaction".

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The start of the New Brighton Jubilee River Walk, next to the Avon River and the Estuary.

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An aerial photographof New Brighton and Bexley.

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A photograph of cars on the McCormacks Bay causeway.

Steam and Speed, Christchurch’s Railway Station in 1878

Articles, Lost Christchurch

Tiny British-made locomotive engines first began chugging between Ferrymead’s Wharf on the estuary and the city on December 1st, 1863. This was New Zealand’s first public railway line, …

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 045

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The start of the New Brighton Jubilee River Walk, next to the Avon River and the Estuary. The Council has built a stop bank along the walkway.

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A photograph of a sign on the roadside beside Sumner beach. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "It looks as if the site access is out there in the estuary".

Pleasant Point Yacht Club

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Badly damaged in both the September and February quakes and over 6000 aftershocks the Point Pleasant yacht club had started to sink into the Avon estuary before being demolished in July 2011 after the June 6.3 earthquake

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 553

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Avon River is at this point on Avonside Drive 10 km from the estuary. At high tide the river now overflows its banks showing that the ground has sunk by about 40 cm".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Avon River is at this point on Avonside Drive 10 km from the estuary. At high tide the river now overflows its banks showing that the ground has sunk by about 40 cm".

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 542

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Avon River is at this point on Avonside Drive 10 km from the estuary. At high tide the river now overflows its banks showing that the ground has sunk by about 40 cm".

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 544

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Avon River is at this point on Avonside Drive 10 km from the estuary. At high tide the river now overflows its banks showing that the ground has sunk by about 40 cm".

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2011 photograph 554

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Avon River is at this point on Avonside Drive 10 km from the estuary. At high tide the river now overflows its banks showing that the ground has sunk by about 40 cm".

Broken River extended version

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Days after the city of Christchurch was devastated by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, This Way Up's presenter Simon Morton traverses the city using the Avon River as his route. Travelling on a bicycle from the source of the Avon in the West to Heathcote Estuary in the East, where the Avon meets the Pacific, everyone has a story to tell.

Broken River - extended version

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Days after the city of Christchurch was devastated by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, This Way Up's presenter Simon Morton traverses the city using the Avon River as his route. Travelling on a bicycle from the source of the Avon in the West to Heathcote Estuary in the East, where the Avon meets the Pacific, everyone has a story to tell.