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 photograph of the earthquake-damaged Our City O-Tautahi Building on the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace. Steel bracing has been placed against the building to secure the brick walls. The bracing is supported by large concrete blocks. Wire fences have also been placed around the bottom of the building as a cordon. Scaffolding has been erected around the tower to the right.
A photograph of a map used by emergency management personnel to inspect buildings after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The map is of central Christchurch. Almost all of the blocks outside four streets (Moorhouse Avenue, Oxford Terrace, Kilmore Street, and Barbadoes Street) have been highlighted in yellow. Latimer Square has also been highlighted. A message written at the top of the map reads, "Query pile checked by dogs".
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 30 June 2011 showing earthquake damage to graves in Lyttelton Roman Catholic and Dissenters (Public) Cemeteries in Reserve Terrace. Most of the headstones and grave surrounds in the photograph show damage. Looking east in the Dissenters (Public) section of the cemetery. The Lyttelton cemeteries a...
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 30 June 2011 showing signs warning of the danger posed by unstable headstones in Lyttelton Roman Catholic and Dissenters (Public) Cemeteries in Reserve Terrace. Several toppled headstones and collapsed grave surrounds are visible in the photograph. Looking east from the main gate. The Lyttelton c...
Here we look upon one of Christchurch’s beautiful public gardens which spans Durham Street and the River Avon. This photograph shows how carefully the city authorities went about landscaping …
A footpath above the Avon River on Oxford Terrace. The pavement has cracked and one of the fence posts has fallen over.
A view down Oxford Terrace towards Rydges Hotel. On the right is Our City O-Tautahi with bracing in front of it.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking along Gloucester Street from the Oxford Terrace intersection. The central library is to the left".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The PricewaterhouseCoopers, Building, Forsyth Barr Building, and the Copthorne Hotel viewed from Cambridge Terrace".
The Brannigans Building on the corner of Gloucester Street and Oxford Terrace. An army truck is parked just outside the street cordon.
Aerial image of the PGC Building site on Cambridge Terrace, taken by the Royal New Zealand Air Force for the Earthquake Commission.
A photograph of people punting on the Avon River. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Corner Gloucester Street and Oxford Terrace".
Redcliffs with visible rock fall, seen from the spit in Southshore.
A view looking from Cathedral Square tram stop towards Oxford Terrace. The Clarendon Towers building has been damaged and the windows boarded up.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The former Public Library".
Liquefaction and building rubble on the damaged footpath outside the former Public Library.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The former Public Library on Hereford Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".
Cordon fencing around the Robert Falcon Scott statue which has fallen from its plinth, on the corner of Worcester Boulevard and Oxford Terrace.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A collapsed part of the old City Library".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The old City Library being readied for demolition".