President of Sumner-Redcliffs RSA, which was destroyed in the Christchurch earthquake, talks about their plans for Anzac Day.
Earlier this morning Christchurch's Cathedral Square saw its first dawn service since the earthquake in 2011. The city's Mayor Phil Mauger was there.
35 Hargood Street, Woolston - earthquake land damage. Second house away from the Woolston Club.
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).
Hopefully will be open again later this month - 25 months afer the February earthquake.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 April 2011 entitled, "Day 49 - last day behind the cordon".
Strange sign when the building it refers to is no longer there. Earthquake damage.
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19 Velsheda Street, Pacific Park, Bexley is about to be trucked out.
Growing in a red zone vacant section in Wetlands Grove, Pacific Park.
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.
A graphic comparing spending in the Boxing Day and 'Boxing Day replay' sales.
Christchurch Cathedral Square held its first Anzac Day dawn service since the earthquakes.
A scanned copy of a black and white photograph depicting a line of police officers at a protest against the Springbok Tour in 1981. The photograph was taken on the National Day of Shame, 22 July 1981.
A digitally manipulated image of a statue of the Virgin Mary in a broken window of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. The photographer comments, "Before the February 2011 earthquake the statue above was facing into the Cathedral looking down a corridor, but after it had turned 180 degrees to point towards the window. The statue of Mary turning like this gave a sign of hope for the people of Christchurch. It was amongst one of the most photographed things after the earthquake until it was removed".
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An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 9 April 2011 entitled, "Day 47 - Shopping Shemozzle".
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An earthquake memories story from Niall Hamilton, Medical Registrar, Christchurch Hospital, titled, "An unforgettable day".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 27 February 2012 entitled, "Determining the Day".
Christchurch city experienced a magnitude 7.1 earthquake on September 4 at 4:35 am. The epicentre was 40 km west of the city. It was the most damaging earthquake in New Zealand since the Hawke's Bay earthquake in 1931, but there was no loss of life. It was fortunate the earthquake occurred when the central city streets were deserted, as there w...
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.
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.
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.
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 house has been stripped of it's bricks and jacked up for over four m...
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 2 April 2011 entitled, "Day 40 - Inside the red zone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 29 March 2011 entitled, "Day 36 - inside the red zone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 22 March 2011 entitled, "Day 29 in the red zone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 23 March 2011 entitled, "Day 30 - inside the red zone".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 12 May 2012 entitled, "Snapshots of a memorable day".