A scan of page 258 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.
A scan of page 28 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Edmonds Band Rotunda, Cambridge Terrace".
A scan of page 145 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.
A scan of page 39 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Steel bracing being attached to 169 Hereford Street".
A scan of page 157 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Octagon Live restaurant, old Trinity Congregational Church, corner of Worcester and Manchester Streets".
A scan of page 252 of the Townsend Telescope Visitors' Book.
People viewing the badly-damaged Catholic Cathedral from behind a wire fence.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Beaufort House, on the corner of Latimer Square and Hereford Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Our Lady Star of the Sea, Catholic School in Menzies Street, Sumner".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Warners Hotel with Novotel behind, Cathedral Square".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Crichton Cobbers on Fitzgerald Avenue".
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This aerial photo of the Square, taken on 13 December 2011, shows the Novotel, the Marque Hotel, the Millenium Hotel and Heritage Hotel. These hotels all have significant work to do, and mostly have an opening date of 2013".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Odeon Theatre and Real Groovy, Tuam Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Isaac Theatre Royal, Gloucester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Highlight House, corner Manchester and Cashel Streets".
A photograph of staff from the Department of Physics and Astronomy examining the rubble of the Observatory tower in the South Quad of the Christchurch Arts Centre. The tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A digger was used to clear the rubble away from the building. Scaffolding around the tower has also collapsed and is amongst the rubble.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Pieces of iron fretwork from the entrance to the Warners Hotel carefully laid on the ground in front of the building. Thisshows the careful salvaging which has taken place during the demolistion of many heritage building in order to be able to re-use significant pieces later".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Barbadoes Street. After the February earthquake the statue of Mary was facing outwards towards the street, whereas before the earthquakes the statue faced inwards towards the church".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "St John the Baptist, Latimer Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Diva on High Street".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Crichton Cobbers on Fitzgerald Avenue".
The cross at the top of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, knocked off kilter by the earthquake.
A copy of an article extracted from page 3 of The Star newspaper, published on 7 December 1882. The article is titled, "The Transit of Venus".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "McKenzie & Willis building on Tuam Street".
A story submitted by Pat A Chousal to the QuakeStories website.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral, Cathedral Square".