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Images, UC QuakeStudies

A scanned copy of a handmade poster advertising the University Bookshop (UBS) on campus, and the Book Shop in the Arts Centre. The poster was produced in the 1970s and was sourced from archives held at Macmillan Brown Library.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the earthquake damage to a group of stores on Manchester Street including the While You Wait Studio, Smith's Bookshop, Aji Global Grocery & Chocolateria and Curios Bric-a-Brac. Sections of the front wall have crumbled, the bricks falling to the footpath and damaging the awnings. Plastic fencing has been placed along the road as a cordon.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the earthquake damage to a group of stores on Manchester Street including Peaches and Cream, the While You Wait Studio, Smith's Bookshop, Aji Global Grocery & Chocolateria and Curios Bric-a-Brac. Sections of the front wall have crumbled, the bricks falling to the footpath and damaging the awnings. Plastic fencing has been placed along the road as a cordon.

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Demolition of Robertson's Bakery building, Victoria Street, Christchurch. The Chandelier rescue ... Walking into work I saw the building I always wanted to buy (and run as a bookshop, perfumery, shoe shop) - the old Robertson's Bakery getting demolished. But the bigass digger gently reached into the wreckage and saved this chandelier, bringing...

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Scorpio Books in Christchurch turns 50 this year. Founded by David Cameron, who started with a tiny specialist shop and built it into a store with more than 30 staff and over 26,000 titles, it has survived the internet, Amazon and the Canterbury earthquakes. Head buyer Bel Monypenny joins Culture 101 to talk about what keeps an independent bookshop alive, the authors who have walked through the doors unannounced, and the book she most recently pressed into customers' hands.