A photograph of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the Stranges Building.
Register Record for Strange's Building, 219-223 High Street, Christchurch
A photograph of three windows of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of a detail of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of three windows of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of a detail of the Stranges Building.
Building Record Form for Strange's Building, 219-223 High Street, Christchurch
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to two windows of the Stranges Building.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to a detail of the Stranges Building.
The magnificent, four storey Strange’s & Co Furniture Department Building was built in 1900 on the corner of Lichfield and High Streets, replacing a row of old dilapidated weatherboard sh…
A concrete block wall with a large diagonal crack running through it. The photographer comments, "This wall has fascinated me. It has cracked across in a dead straight diagonal line during one of Christchurch's many earthquakes. How could this have occurred?".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 23 December 2011 entitled, "Banks in Boxes, Strange Santa, and Tiny Trio".
Liquefaction in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "After the double quake local to my home, the liquefaction made strange shapes in the liquid content of the outpourings".
Strange sign when the building it refers to is no longer there. Earthquake damage.
Liquefaction in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "This is the liquid part of liquefaction left when the heavier sand content has dropped down. After the double quake in Christchurch local to me I found these strange lines of bubbles on the surface".
Liquefaction and buckled tarmac on a residential street in North New Brighton. The photographer comments, "In the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch the kerb at the end of my road was pushed from both ends. This caused it to move away from the grass verge and push itself under the tarmac. The tarmac would normally have been 3 inches below the top of the kerb. Between the kerb and the grass can be seen the colour of the liquefaction that spewed out from the ground. The tarmac in the area seemed to flow downhill".
Dressed in a black cutaway coat, dark trousers and a white silk neckcloth, and sporting a Billy-Cock hat over short hair, Henry Jame Muir stood before a London magistrate in 1889 dressed in the clo…