A sculpture on Poplar Lane visible from High Street after the surrounding buildings were demolished.
The mirrors from Sergio's Menswear are still intact on the wall of the adjoining building after the demolition of Sergio's.
The building which formerly housed the Coffee Club on High Street, standing alone after surrounding buildings have been demolished.
The mirrors from Sergio's Menswear are still intact on the wall of the adjoining building after the demolition of Sergio's.
The building which formerly housed the Coffee Club on High Street, standing alone after surrounding buildings have been demolished.
The old post office building in Cathedral Square, now visible from Hereford Street after the demolition of the ANZ building.
The mirrors from Sergio's Menswear are still intact on the wall of the adjoining building after the demolition of Sergio's.
The building which formerly housed the Coffee Club on High Street, standing alone after surrounding buildings have been demolished.
An aerial photograph looking south over the Arts Centre on Worcester Boulevard. Scaffolding and cranes can be seen around the building which is having extensive repairs done to it after the earthquakes.
Shands Emporium standing alone on Hereford Street, the buildings on either side of it demolished. The photographer comments, "This lovely old building looks a little more broken every time I see it, after having been exposed to the elements for so long".
The earthquake re-pair work has started on the Knox Church on Bealey Avenue, August 14, 2013 Christchurch New Zealand. While building after building is torn down in Christchurch, plans are in place to ensure as much of a 131-year-old church is retained as possible. Knox Church on Bealey Avenue suffered major damage in the February 22 earthquak...
The University of Canterbury is known internationally for the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) corpus (see Gordon et al 2004). ONZE is a large collection of recordings from people born between 1851 and 1984, and it has been widely utilised for linguistic and sociolinguistic research on New Zealand English. The ONZE data is varied. The recordings from the Mobile Unit (MU) are interviews and were collected by members of the NZ Broadcasting service shortly after the Second World War, with the aim of recording stories from New Zealanders outside the main city centres. These were supplemented by interview recordings carried out mainly in the 1990s and now contained in the Intermediate Archive (IA). The final ONZE collection, the Canterbury Corpus, is a set of interviews and word-list recordings carried out by students at the University of Canterbury. Across the ONZE corpora, there are different interviewers, different interview styles and a myriad of different topics discussed. In this paper, we introduce a new corpus – the QuakeBox – where these contexts are much more consistent and comparable across speakers. The QuakeBox is a corpus which consists largely of audio and video recordings of monologues about the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. As such, it represents Canterbury speakers’ very recent ‘danger of death’ experiences (see Labov 2013). In this paper, we outline the creation and structure of the corpus, including the practical issues involved in storing the data and gaining speakers’ informed consent for their audio and video data to be included.