BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 138

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A sign attached to the front fence of the Croydon House Bed and Breakfast Hotel reading, "Don't touch this lady without owner's permission". Yellow tape has been laid over the front reading, "Restricted area, please keep out".

Damage to Cycle Trading on Manchester Street

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Damage to Cycle Trading on Manchester Street. Boarded up frontage has spraypainted message "Please don't demolish".

Parker defends deadline to fix or demolish buildings

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Some owners of commercial buildings badly damaged in the Canterbury earthquake, have been told if they don't repair or demolish them by January the 31st, the Christchurch City Council will do it for them.

Photo by Jennifer Middendorf 216

Images, UC QuakeStudies

The C.F. Cotter & Co building stands alone, with the buildings on either side having been demolished. A sign on the building reads "Buy me don't bowl me!

20170918_6084_7D2-41 Demolition still happening (260/365)

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

20170918_6084_7D2-41 Demolition still happening (260/365) Six ½ years after the earthquakes there are still a few demolitions taking place. This one is a block of council owned flats. Whether the whole complex is being demolished or not I don't know., but here the centre block of three is being demolished. The green grass is what was sections...

Nisbet, Alistair, 1958-: [Debate about the fate of heritage buildings afte…

Images, Alexander Turnbull Library

Text at top left reads 'Don't forget rubbish day' The cartoon is a large wheelie bin stacked high with debris from 'old dunger buildings'. Someone in a damaged house nearby says 'Good riddance!' Context - Two earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks have hit Christchurch, the first on 4 September 2010 and a second more devastating one on 22 February 2011. Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee may or may not have actually used the words 'old dungers' to describe some of Christchurch's heritage buildings that are not worth keeping but he might as well have done because many people believe that this is the way he thinks. Debate about which heritage buildings should be kept and which demolished has begun along with debate about how the city should be rebuilt. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).