Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 325

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A red-stickered house with cracking on the stairs.

Photograph number UC 11-0093-17

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Members of the recovery team climbing the stairs on the first floor of the Registry Building.

Photograph number UC 11-0093-16

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Members of the recovery team climbing the stairs on the first floor of the Registry Building.

How Many Feet Have Climbed These Stairs

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

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Photograph number UC 11-0093-08

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A member of the emergency team climbing the stairs on the first floor of the Registry Building, on the way to retrieve important items.

Old Post Office Window with Watercolour Effect

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

The Old Lyttelton Post Office, opened in 1874, showing damage after a series of earthquakes hit Christchurch and Lyttelton over the last 9 months. In the shadow of a broken house, Down a deserted street, Propt walls, cold hearths, and phantom stairs, And the silence of dead feet — Locked wildly in one another's arms I saw two lovers meet. ...