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20131231_8485_EOS M-22 Quake City exhibit
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Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while.
20130611_7558_EOS M-22 Cut in half and onto the truck (Day 162/365)
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19 Velsheda Street, Pacific Park, Bexley is about to be trucked out.
20130328_1143_EOS M-55 Red zone weeds (Day 87/365)
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Growing in a red zone vacant section in Wetlands Grove, Pacific Park.
20130622_7842_1D3-24 Disabled in more ways than one (Day 173/365)
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One of many disabled carparks outside what used to be one of the great sporting complexes in New Zealand. The Queen Elizabeth II Park complex in north-east Christchurch was built initially for the 1974 Commonwealth Games and was used for track and field and the adjoining pool complex had swimming and diving. It was built on an area that was used...
20130630_9138_1D3-58 IRD Building (Day 181/365)
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The old (or is that the new) Inland Revenue Department (IRD) building on the corner of Madras and Cashel Streets in central Christchurch. Built in 2006/07 on the site of the former Farmers department store (itself badly damaged by fire), it was just a few years old when the earthquake of February 2011 struck, and subsequent quakes (all through 2...
20131231_8484_EOS M-22 Quake City exhibit
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20131231_8484_EOS M-22 Quake City exhibit Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. #4502
20130328_1148_EOS M-49 T-Rex may have visited
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The seismic survey truck T-Rex (from University of Texas) was in Bexley and Pacific Park a few days ago and may have left this calling card on the front lawn of my old "red zone" house. Obviously the geotechs will know what it means.
20130320_1044_EOS M-29 lifted house (Day 79/365)
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A red-zone house just a few down the road from where we used to live in Velsheda Street, with bricks (brick veneer?) off and lifted prior to transporting away.
20131231_8503_EOS M-22 From Cashel Street
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20131231_8503_EOS M-22 From Cashel Street Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. #4504
Another one ready to leave
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20130911_8095_EOS M-33 Another one ready to leave Another salvaged house from the Bexley (Pacific Park) red zone is on the truck and may start it's journey to a new location overnight. #4204
20131110_8305_EOS M-27 Empty and overgrown (Day 314/365)
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A house, one of the few still remaining in the Dallington Red Zone (Avonside Drive, Dallington). The area is "red zoned" due to land damage from earthquakes (mainly the February 22nd 2011 6.4 magnitude quake).
20131231_8511_EOS M-22 Forsyth Barr building for sale, under the archway
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20131231_8511_EOS M-22 Forsyth Barr building for sale, under the archway Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. #4507
20130112_2568_G12-06 Why the land is zoned red! (012/365)
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Water from the river at high tide crosses Evans Avenue and enters a now abandoned "red zone" house via the garage. Next door (to the left) is the garage containing a car that was destroyed by fire last week (see earlier photos).
20130304_2842_G12-10 Christchurch Gondola test running (Day 63/365)
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Hopefully will be open again later this month - 25 months afer the February earthquake.
20131231_8509_EOS M-22 Forsyth Barr building with remains of PWC just behi…
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20131231_8509_EOS M-22 Forsyth Barr building with remains of PWC just behind the green fence (across river) Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. #4506
20131231_8504_EOS M-22 Looking up Cashel Street
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20131231_8504_EOS M-22 Looking up Cashel Street Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. For 36 years I worked in a now gone building where that red car is parked (on the left). and would have wa...
20131231_8513_EOS M-22 The chocolate double decker
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20131231_8513_EOS M-22 The chocolate double decker Another city walk around, this time with my brother-in-law from Auckland. Also went to the Quake City exhibition in the city organised by the Canterbury Museum. First fine day for a while. This bus is used as a chocolate restaurant, and is parked next to the Pallet Pavilion on the site of th...
20130610_7556_EOS M-22 HireQuip toilet (Day 161/365)
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Sitting on the concrete in front of what was my model railway room - a single car garage at the rear of our house in Pacific Park. Reason it is here - one of the houses behind my old house is going to be trucked out. See previous photo.
20130511_1535_EOS M-22 Captain Cook (Day 131/365)
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The statue of Captain Cook looks over an empty Victoria Square with autumn leaves lying around. This used to be a very tidy and busy area, but is now nearly all fenced off. Pedestrian access to this section was established about five or six months ago.
Another one on the way out (Day 185/365)
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20130704_7677_EOS M-22 Another one on the way out (Day 185/365) A suburban "red zone" house from Velsheda Street (#11), Pacific Park, is finally cut in half and loaded ready for transport out and a future life somewhere else in the South Island, whether it be close by or way down south in Gore or Clinton (where a few have gone already). The hou...
20130312_0938_EOS M-39 T-Rex
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Went for a drive down to South New Brighton/Southshore after work today to see what interesting birds I could find on the Estuary (godwits, skuas, terns etc), but passing Jellico Street, I saw this. T-Rex the seismic survey truck from the University of Texas that is visiting the city (first time out of USA). Weighs 30 tonne and from the marks o...
20130511_1538_EOS M-22 The Last National Bank?
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I think all the National Banks in the country have been either closed or rebranded ANZ, but this one on the corner of Colombo and Armagh Streets is still inside the CBD red zone and has yet to be touched. I have heard that this building is staying so whether it becomes an ANZ or not time will tell. This was one of the top five busiest pedest...
Water water everywhere! (Day 84/365)
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20130325_1112_EOS M-25 Water water everywhere! (Day 84/365) While the whole of the North Island is under drought conditions and parts of the South Island likely to follow suit, I doubt it will happen in Christchurch. With hundreds of earthquake road, water and sewer repairs underway many are spilling hundreds of litres of water per minute, like...
20130312_0936_EOS M-27 T-Rex
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Went for a drive down to South New Brighton/Southshore after work today to see what interesting birds I could find on the Estuary (godwits, skuas, terns etc), but passing Jellico Street, I saw this. T-Rex the seismic survey truck from the University of Texas that is visiting the city (first time out of USA). Weighs 30 tonne and from the marks o...
20130312_0935_EOS M-18 T-Rex (Day 71/365)
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Went for a drive down to South New Brighton/Southshore after work today to see what interesting birds I could find on the Estuary (godwits, skuas, terns etc), but passing Jellico Street, I saw this. T-Rex the seismic survey truck from the University of Texas that is visiting the city (first time out of USA). Weighs 30 tonne and from the marks o...