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View of the intersection of Victoria Street and Bealey Avenue, looking towards the Knox Church. Across the street are unstable buildings with scaffolding erected around the sides.

Nisbet, Alistair, 1958- :'Who needs the Gold Coast...we've got the "Silt C…

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Shows a happy crowd playing in the sea and sand in the Christchurch Square. Bishop Victoria Matthews is seen balancing on the Wizard of Christchurch who has turned himself into a surfboard. Context: refers to a proposal by Bishop of Christchurch Victoria Matthews that the earthquake-damaged Square could be made "welcoming and engaging" again by transforming it into an artificial beach with large movie screens. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:09:08 18:00:26

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "A chandelier is recovered by a Southern Demolition excavator operator from a damaged shop, Shrimpton Radcliffe Design on Victoria Street, following the Canterbury earthquakes".

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A view of the corner of Montreal and Victoria Streets. In the background is the damaged Caxton Press Building, and on the right is Gordon Smith & Sons Fruiterers.

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A view down Victoria Street. On the left is Christchurch Casino, Crowne Plaza Hotel in the middle, and the Corpthorne Hotel can be partially seen on the right.

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Scaffolding in front of the damaged building that housed Satchmo Hairdressing on Victoria Street. The street has been cordoned off with Police and Army personnel guarding the entrace.

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A view down Peterborough Street between Victoria and Montreal street. Dried silt from liquefaction still remains on the footpath. The Peterborough Centre can be seen in the background.

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A photograph of the site of a demolished building on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street. Wire fencing has been placed around the site as a cordon. Signs on the fence indicate that many of the businesses which were in the area have moved and are still open.

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Extensive damage to the Caxton Press building on Victoria Street. Bricks have toppled from the facade down to the footpath, and the windows and doors have been boarded up.

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:09:23 09:47:18

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Graeme Marshall, owner of Asko Design, and Sarah Aspinwall of Canterbury Cheesemongers, on the site in Victoria Street where their businesses stood before the earthquake".

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Extensive damage to the Caxton Press building on Victoria Street. Bricks have toppled from the facade down to the footpath, and the windows and doors have been boarded up.

Port Lyttelton – ‘a mean, insignificant little place’

Articles, Lost Christchurch

This land-locked port of Lyttelton – called occasionally Port Cooper and sometimes Port Victoria – is the main, or rather the only, entrance to the Province of Canterbury. The surroundi…

Christchurch Press Image: Ross Giblin 2010:09:10 14:01:50

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake experts give a lecture at Victoria University about the Christchurch earthquake. The lecture theatre was full and people watched on a screen in another room".

Christchurch Press Image: Ross Giblin 2010:09:10 14:04:09

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake experts give a lecture at Victoria University about the Christchurch earthquake. The lecture theatre was full and people watched on a screen in another room".

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:09:08 17:10:11

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Amanda Hackett with a chandelier recovered by a Southern Demolition excavator operator from her damaged shop, Shrimpton Radcliffe Design on Victoria Street, following the Canterbury earthquakes

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A row of damaged shops on Victoria Street at the intersection with Bealey Avenue. The street has been cordoned off with road cones and a sign that says 'road closed'.

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Damage to buildings down Victoria Street. Members of the public have walked inside the police tape cordon to have a look at the damaged buildings and bricks across the road.

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A view past the intersection of Peterborough and Victoria Streets. The building that housed the New Zealand College of Early Childhood Education and Antiqueworld can be seen in the background.

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Awaiting the demolition ball! See the hole punched in by the neighbouring building (now demolished) during the February 22 2011 earthquake. This building is leaning to the north (left) while it's now demolished neighbour was leaning to the south (right). All because the crap land gave way underneath!

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This block of shops on Victoria Street was so badly damaged that it had to be demolished following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.

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This block of shops on Victoria Street was so badly damaged that it had to be demolished following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.

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This block of shops on Victoria Street was so badly damaged that it had to be demolished following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck Christchurch on Saturday 4 September 2010.

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:12:11 10:47:39

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Nader Guirguis assists Michael Awadalla with his traditional Arabic headdress at an event in Victoria Square to raise funds for the Coptic Church, damaged in the Canterbury earthquake".

The Timaru Herald Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:12:11 10:48:29

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Nader Guirguis assists Michael Awadalla with his traditional Arabic headdress at an event in Victoria Square to raise funds for the Coptic Church, damaged in the Canterbury earthquake".

The Timaru Herald Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:12:11 10:48:39

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Nader Guirguis assists Michael Awadalla with his traditional Arabic headdress at an event in Victoria Square to raise funds for the Coptic Church, damaged in the Canterbury earthquake".

The Timaru Herald Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:12:11 10:48:01

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Nader Guirguis assists Michael Awadalla with his traditional Arabic headdress at an event in Victoria Square to raise funds for the Coptic Church, damaged in the Canterbury earthquake".

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Damage to Asko Design store and Mod's Hairdressing on Victoria Street. Road fencing and cones have been put up to contain the building rubble which has spilled onto the footpath and road.

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:12:11 10:35:08

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Karim Mina (17) is missed by a thrown wet sponge at an event in Victoria Square to raise funds for the Coptic Church, damaged in the Canterbury earthquake".

Christchurch Press Image: Ross Giblin 2010:09:10 13:57:42

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake expert Ken Gledhill gives a lecture at Victoria University about the Christchurch earthquake. The lecture theatre was full and people watched on a screen in another room".

The Timaru Herald Image: John Kirk-Anderson 2010:12:11 10:48:08

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Nader Guirguis assists Michael Awadalla with his traditional Arabic headdress at an event in Victoria Square to raise funds for the Coptic Church, damaged in the Canterbury earthquake".