Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Damaged gravestones in the Lyttelton cemetery".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Damaged gravestones in the Lyttelton cemetery".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Damaged gravestones in the Lyttelton cemetery".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Damaged gravestones in the Lyttelton cemetery".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Damaged gravestones in the Lyttelton cemetery".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A damaged gravestone in the Lyttelton cemetery".
A sign in the Lyttelton Cemetery reading, "Danger. Cemetery closed. Dangerous headstones".
A sign in the Lyttelton Cemetery reading, "Hazard. Many of the headstones and monuments in this cemetery are unstable due to the recent earthquake. Please proceed with caution when entering the cemetery".
The September Canterbury earthquake. These pictures were taken of Colombo Street in Sydenham. A lot of masonry in this area has been damaged/fallen down. Monumental masons is a gravestone maker. Note: these photos were taken on a cellphone; mind the quality.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Nurse Maude's gravestone at St Peter's Anglican Church. Church Corner, Upper Riccarton".
The side wall of the building on the left collapsed onto their roof, collapsing it into the stonemasons store. Several gravestones were also damaged!
A digitally manipulated image of a fallen headstone. The photographer comments, "Since the September 2010 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand a lot of the headstones have fallen, but sadly a lot have not been resurrected to their former places".
In the days after the devastating earthquake on 22 February 2011, we lost water in my neighbourhood. However, I was able to supplement the water in our emergency kit with water from this spigot in Somerfield Cemetary. Thank you, William Russell.
A review of the week's news including: Prosecutions against thirteen of the seventeen people arrested in police raids in the Ureweras and elsewhere are dropped, the Christchurch earthquake one year on, health officials take expert advice on containing a deadly meningitis outbreak in Northland, a group of Dunedin volunteers are making a photographic record of thousands of the city's old gravestones, more Kiwis will have their calls monitored by researchers at Victoria University and DOC and an enthusiastic Rugby World Cup welcome Tongan style.