Clocks

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Jim Hay keeps ticking along in a career that's spanned more than 30 years. He's a watchmaker and although he'll be the first to tell you time's just about run out on wrist watches, his skills in clock repairs are in demand since the Christchurch earthquake.

Rotherham Clock Park Photograph 3

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A photograph of volunteers with the clock for the Rotherham Clock Park.

The Times They Are A-Changing

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A wall clock with its glass broken. The photographer comments, "A very appropriate title as the numbers are not sequential and the clock has a very odd shape".

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2599

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View of the Victoria Clock Tower on Victoria Street. The time on the clock's face is stopped at the time of the February earthquake.

Rotherham Clock Park Photograph 1

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A photograph of the Rotherham Clock Park in Riccarton.

Fairfax Video, September 2012 (3)

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A video of an excavator demolishing the clock tower of the former railway station on Moorhouse Avenue.

Elizabeth Ackermann Photograph 305

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A photograph of the clock from the Canterbury Provincial Chambers on display in the Canterbury Quakes exhibition at the Canterbury Museum.

Rotherham Clock Park Photograph 2

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A photograph of the Gap Filler mini-golf hole in the Rotherham Clock Park in Riccarton.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1838

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The Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1837

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The Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras Street and Oxford Terrace.

The Final Showdown

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A digitally manipulated image of diggers sitting on top of rubble beside the old Railway Station. The photographer comments, "Which one will be buried 6 foot under?".

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1839

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Detail of the Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1840

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Detail of the Edmonds clock tower, on the corner of Madras St and Oxford Tce.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2525

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Clock tower on Victoria St stopped at the time of the 22nd February earthquake.

Koen Broekema's Photograph 172

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The damaged New Regent Street facades. The clock has stopped at 12.51 pm on 22 February 2011.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2094

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Detail of the clock tower on the former railway station building on Moorhouse Avenue at the bottom of Madras Street.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 2527

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Victoria Mansons and the Clock tower on Victoria St which is stopped at the time of the February 22nd earthquake.

The Clock Tower – neglected by the Government, admired by the People

Articles, Lost Christchurch

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September 1888 – the most destructive earthquake since the Canterbury Pilg…

Articles, Lost Christchurch

Shortly after 4 o’clock this morning the whole of the South and a portion of the North Island was shaken by a violent shock of earthquake, the most severe experienced for more than 20 years……

Nisbet, Alistair, 1958- :Scientists create model to predict quakes...12 Ja…

Images, Alexander Turnbull Library

Scientists stand before a model that will predict earthquakes. The model is a large arm attached to wires and switches with a thumb that flicks coins '"Heads" we have big quake at five-o-clock... "tails" we don't'. Context: short term predictions (hours to days) are in general unlikely to be possible, at present. Relates to the Christchurch earthquakes which experts have said could go on for years. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).