We Lived Here: Bangor Street Photograph 09

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A photograph of the playground in Walnut Tree Park on Bangor Street.

We Lived Here: Rees Street Photograph 1

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A photograph of the houses at 5, 7, and 9 Rees Street.

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A photograph looking east down the footpath along Oxford Terrace. The photograph was taken from outside 402 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph looking east along the footpath along Oxford Terrace. The photograph was taken from outside 402 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of the house at 402 Oxford Terrace, taken from the footpath.

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A photograph of the house at 396 Oxford Terrace, taken through two overgrown bushes.

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A photograph of the swings in a playground in Walnut Tree Park on Bangor Street.

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A photograph of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. The grass has not been mowed and one of the windows has been boarded up with plywood. A yellow sticker on the door indicates that the access to the house is restricted. There is also a sign in the window to the left, depicting a bulldozer with a line through it. The photographer comments, "Avon Loop resident Donna Allfrey made the sign for Duff".

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A photograph of graffiti on one of the walls of the kitchen in Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace. Parts of the graffiti read, "Quakes, a national disaster", "Recovery, a national disgrace", "Ring fn EQC, ring fn insurance", "Useless fn council", "Don't let the bastards get you down", "Avon Loop - park or developers fodder?", and "Never trust a Carter". There are also shopping and to-do lists scrawled amongst these messages.

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A photograph of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. The grass has not been mowed and one of the windows has been boarded up with plywood. A yellow sticker on the door indicates that the access to the house is restricted. There is also a sign in the window to the left, depicting a bulldozer with a line through it. The photographer comments, "Avon Loop resident Donna Allfrey made the sign for Duff".

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A photograph of Siobhan Murphy outside her house at 436 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of the front gate of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of a flower in Robin Duff's garden at 386 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of the hallway of Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of the kitchen of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of the site of Donna Allfrey's demolished house at 406 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of the house at 428 Oxford Terrace. Plywood has been placed over the door. The house number has been spray-painted on the plywood.

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A photograph of the house at 410 Oxford Terrace. The grass has been mowed but the dead grass has not been removed.

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A photograph of wire fences which have been placed around the property at 390 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of an excavator demolishing Siobhan Murphy's house at 436 Oxford Terrace.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This loop of the Avon encircles Horseshoe Lake and gives the area its name and its attraction as a place to live. The land close to the Avon River has severe issues with slumping, lateral movement and liquefaction, so that much of it is red zoned and the houses will be demolished".

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A photograph of an architectural detail above a window of Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph taken inside Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. Broken furniture and rubbish litter the ground.

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A photograph taken inside Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. Broken furniture and rubbish litter the ground.

We Lived Here: Oxford Terrace Photograph 135

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A photograph of the former site of the houses at 422, 424, and 426 Oxford Terrace. The houses were demolished after the land was zoned Red. Grass has begun to grow over the sites.

Catharsis as Christchurch quake redzone development opens

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Christchurch residents forced away from their redzone homes returned today for the unveiling of the the Avon loop pathway - the first redevelopment, nine years on from the deadly earthquake. Reporter Conan Young went along to hear from them.

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A photograph of the house number spray-painted on one of the windows of 468 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of Doug Sexton holding Small Gardens. Small Gardens featured his garden at 378 Oxford Street.

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A photograph of one side of Siobhan Murphy's house at 436 Oxford Terrace.

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A photograph of the footpath outside the former site of Donna Allfrey's house on Oxford Terrace. Allfrey's house was demolished after her land was zoned Red.