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20130130_1854_1D3-32 Armagh Street

20130130_1885_1D3-35 Pallet Pavilion on Park Royal site

20130130_1880_1D3-67 Pallet Pavilion on Park Royal site

20130130_1820_1D3-22 Balyntynes wall

20130130_1836_1D3-32 Clever (Gloucestrer Street)

20130130_1856_1D3-45 Avon River (Edmonds Restaurant)

20130130_1849_1D3-28 New Regent Street

20130130_1812_1D3-17 Outside the Tap Room

20130130_1814_1D3-40 Wilson City

20130130_1864_1D3-73 St Lukes in the City

20130130_1855_1D3-24 Oxford Terrace from Manchester Street

20130130_1813_1D3-28 Gap Filler

20130130_1815_1D3-28 The old Sony shop

20130130_1852_1D3-32 Manchester Street YHA

20130130_1819_1D3-40 Innovative idea in the city

20130901_2890_1D3-70 10:26am Gone!

See previous photo (exactly 3 hours earlier). Demolition of the support structure for NZ Breweries smokestack in Christchurch. CERES NZ's nibbler is at work, the pipe stack having been removed yesterday (Saturday). This is three hours after the previous photo, and just a pile of rubble sits beside the tree (largely undamaged despite being next...

20130112_2576_G12-18 Avon River. Herring Bay, Kibblewhite Street, South Ne…

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When I was a kid this bit of land in the foreground was level and extended at least three times further out, but after the earthquakes you can see the angle that land near the river slumped. We used to catch a lot of herrings (yellow -eyed mullet) here when I was a kid, hence the local name of Herring Bay. Across the river is the Bexley Wetlands.

20130130_1825_1D3-40 Football in the red zone

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Football turf has now gone and the area fenced off again.

20130130_1875_1D3-35 Gap Filler on Park Royal (Crowne Plaza) site

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20130130_1881_1D3-28 Pallet Pavilion on Park Royal site

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20130130_1879_1D3-32 Pallet Pavilion on Park Royal site

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20130130_1857_1D3-85 New building - Kilmore Street

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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.