Flooding in residential properties on Birch Street, Bexley.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "24 Seabreeze Close, Bexley. The door is permanently open because of the liquefaction silt, but there is no-one home to welcome you in".
A photograph of liquefaction in front of a house. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "It would be very hard work opening that door. 22 Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
A photograph of a sign reading, "Seabreeze Close is now closed. The Klingons from the Government have taken it over." The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
A photograph of an abandoned property at 72 Arncliff Street in Bexley. Wooden bracing is supporting the garage and a broken office chair is lying in the driveway.
A photograph of a fenced-off property at the end of Mitcham Place, Bexley. The house has been covered in temporary cladding and there are signs on the fence outlining hazards and dangers.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bexley".
Earthquake damage to residental properties on Brook Street, Bexley.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bexley, Morganwood Street is in the centre of this picture. Also includes Velsheda Street, Wetlands Grove and Birch Street".
A photograph of an abandoned section at the end of Mitcham Place in Bexley, next to Sopley Lane. A pile of household rubbish and broken furniture has been left on the footpath in front of the property.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Another way of demonstrating how high the liquefaction is piled up in the garden of this house is how little room there is under the eaves of this house at 22 Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
20120321_2397_1D3-47 Beachcomber Dairy Corner of New Brighton Road and Rawson Street, New Brighton. This diary is inside the suburban red zone and will probably be demolished some time in the future. See how the earthquakes have moved the footpath - the post and phone box used to stand straight! This is one of the Teleccom Wi-Fi hotspot boo...
RWTU3388135 (ex Triton TTNU3388135) about to be placed on the ground outside my "Red Zone" house. This is the second container, the first is away in storage with 95% of the house hold stuff. This one is for the hobby (no, not photography gear) and garage stuff.
The old New Brighton Power Boat Club building was badly damaged in the February 2011 earthquake, and is only now (July 2012) being demolished. The building is just down the road from where I grew up and is a New Brighton iconic building.
The old New Brighton Power Boat Club building was badly damaged in the February 2011 earthquake, and is only now (July 2012) being demolished. The building is just down the road from where I grew up and is a New Brighton iconic building.
one of Christchurch's abandoned suburbs. The land moved - bricks and block walls everywhere collapsed - two multi story buildings folded - 184 people died. Wooden framed houses largely stayed up, many concrete slabs cracked, power poles leaned in liquid ground, surface bubbled, services ruptured .... damage to the cbd still gets the most cover...
8 Velsheda Street, Bexley, Christchurch, across the road from my house was demolished a week or so ago, just one of many demolitions of Red Zone properties at the moment. This house was about ten years old and suffered land damage during the 4th September 2010 and 22nd February 2011 earthquakes. The same fate awaits my house later in the year o...
Cobwebs and graffiti in a shower block. The photographer comments, "This was the Soccer changing rooms in Bexley Park in Christchurch. They have now been made out of bounds due to the extensive damage to the big building. The spiders must have grown awfully big though".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This photo epitomises aspects of many homes in the residential red zone. A home that used to be lovely once upon a time, and now is just a broken house, with indicators of the care once lavished upon it by the family that owned it in the rose bush still flowering by the door. Seabreeze Close, Bexley".
A photograph of a damaged roof. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "37 Seabreeze Close".
A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "37 Seabreeze Close".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This house has had its doors and windows removed prior to demolition".
A view down Beresford Street in New Brighton, looking west towards the city at sunset. The photographer comments, "On the other side of the Avon river from New Brighton is the Bexley red zone. Here numerous earthquake damaged streets of houses will be flattened due to it being to uneconomical in the current climate to repair the land to be suitable for housing. There is a campaign at the moment to try and convert all this red zone land, which is mainly adjacent to the Avon river to a giant park".
A 'sand volcano' of liquefaction silt. The photograph has been rotated 180 degrees. The photographer comments, "This could be just a horrible hole caused by liquefaction pouring out of a hole after the Christchurch earthquake in January, but turn it upside down and it becomes an outcrop on the floor of an unseen tidal estuary".