Bettina Evans's photograph 102

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Woolly hats and a scarf on the fence posts of Grubb Cottage on London Street.

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 211

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Richmond Club building with protective coverings on the corner of Stanmore Road and London Street. The Club is still open in another building further along the street".

QuakeStory Photo 496

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A photograph submitted by Andy Palmer to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Shop window, London St, Lyttelton. 25 Feb 2012.".

QuakeStory Photo 497

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A photograph submitted by Andy Palmer to the QuakeStories website. The description reads, "Lyttelton Coffee Company building, London St, Lyttelton. 25 Feb 2012.".

Digital Photograph: Site of the Harbourlight Theatre, London Street, Lytte…

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 14 September 2012 showing the site of the Harbourlight Theatre on London Street. The retaining wall at the rear of the site collapsed and part of the adjoining land eroded. Also visible in the photograph are the side walls of the Bank of New Zealand and the former Westpac Branch, now Himalaya Desi...

Digital Photograph: Partially Demolished Shops, corner of London and Oxfor…

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 14 September 2012 showing a block of partially demolished shops on the corner of London and Oxford Streets. The businesses (from left to right) are Bells Pharmacy, Leslie's Bookshop and Lyttelton Sea Foods. The site of The Empire Hotel is visible to the right of the photograph. By the time this p...

Bettina Evans's photograph 94

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A dinosaur seat on the corner of London and Oxford Streets, amongst flowers sown and tendered by children from Lyttelton Main School. In the background, the broken Plunkett Building can be seen.

Bettina Evans's photograph 93

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A carving in the Lyttelton Coffee Co, a boutique coffee roastery and cafe which was located in the converted historic butchery on London Street. The carving was made by the Whakaraupo Carving School

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 4

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A photograph of a musician performing at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 2

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A photograph of people watching a musician perform at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.

Lyttelton Pentanque Club Photograph 3

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A photograph of Coralie Winn standing next to a Lyttelton resident at the Lyttelton Petanque Club.

Disaster anniversaries and community recovery

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The National Recovery Coordinator for Red Cross Emergency Services in Australia, who has researched disaster recovery practices around the world including the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, London bombings and Sichuan earthquake. She is visiting New Zealand ahead of the first anniversary of the February earthquake in Christchurch.

Bettina Evans's photograph 98

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The book launch for "The Shaken Heart Booklet", a collection of interviews with members of the Lyttelton Community put together by Sue-Ellen Sandilands (left), Bettina Evans (middle) and Jen Kenix (right). The event was held at the Lyttelton Pentanque Club, a Gap Filler project on the site of the Ground Culinary Centre on London Street. In the background, members of the public are also making wool medals to celebrate the achievements of the community after the earthquake.

Bexley 5

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Caption reads: "I lived in London all through the Blitz, you get used to these things. Living here after the earthquakes didn’t bother me. I had a small battery operated radio and the neighbour lent me her generator. Initially I used it to run the fridge but after a while I couldn’t get it started. I don’t want to move, to be quite honest. There’s nothing that will be able to replace the life I built here."