Mother and child walk past Archives New Zealand on Peterborough Street

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Mother and child walk past Archives New Zealand on Peterborough Street.

Mother and child walk past graffitied buildings on Peterborough Street

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Mother and child walk past graffitied buildings on Peterborough St, Christchurch Central.

Mother and child walk past demolished buildings on Peterborough Street (2)

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Mother and child walk past demolished buildings on Peterborough St, with the Crowne Plaza in the background.

Mother and child walk past demolished buildings on Peterborough Street

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Mother and child walk past demolished buildings on Peterborough St, with the Crowne Plaza in the background.

Koen Broekema's Photograph 133

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Shoppers walk past the Nicholas Jermyn store at Re:Start Mall.

Umut Akguzel Photograph 563

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A photograph of members of the public walking along Manchester Street as part of the Sunday CBD walk.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0493

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A photograph showing demolition work proceeding behind the fences on High Street while people in high-vis walk past.

Remembering Lost Christchurch

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Our city is a repository for the social and historical narrative of our past Each street, wall, facade, interior is an integral part of the people who walked passed them, shopped in them, worked in…

Koen Broekema's Photograph 178

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Members of the public walk past the damaged New Regent Street facades. The street has been cordoned off by security fences. The BNZ building on Armargh Street can be seen in the background.

Koen Broekema's Photograph 177

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Members of the public walk past the damaged New Regent Street facades. The street has been cordoned off by security fences. The BNZ building on Armargh Street can be seen in the background.

Koen Broekema's Photograph 175

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Members of the public walk past the damaged New Regent Street facades. The street has been cordoned off by security fences. The BNZ building on Armargh Street can be seen in the background.

Bringing Down the Roof

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Corrogated roofing from the demolition of the QEII complex. The photographer comments, "This collection of galvanised roofing looks so photogenic as I walked around the partly demolished Queen Elizabeth stadium and swimming pool".

Dallington 11

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A photograph captioned, "I miss living here, right by the river. I'd been there for quite a long time, 12 years or so. I realize now I took it for granted a bit. I used to get a bit bored with having a big old house that was cold, difficult to clean, and perhaps hard to keep warm. But now, when I go back there, I miss living in a big house by the river with an open fire and a big lounge and everything. I had the park there on the other side of the river. And there was a little bridge down there where you could walk over to it. There was actually a circuit you could do, up to the New Brighton Bridge and back. Yeah, it was beautiful".

Remembering the 22nd February 2011

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Graffiti on a wooden wall depicts a child pointing at a site across the street and reads "I remember when the Kazbah was over there." The photographer comments, "A local street artist has commemorated Christchurch's deadliest earthquake. The anniversary is tomorrow. Where the photograph was taken was the site of the Ozone Hotel, which has now gone as well. For some of us who live and work in the East of Christchurch the earthquake was not what happened in the City as we were almost unaware of it. We had no water, toilets and most of all no electricity for weeks. For myself petrol was low and with tales of all the petrol stations on our side of town being damaged we could not take the chance of venturing out on severely damaged roads to find no petrol and the possibility of not getting home. We walked around and saw the damage that was local to us. TJ's Kazbah was one that stood out. A building that had a beauty with its round tower standing proud and always looked well kept - it was now collapsed. Its tower, which was once pointing towards the sky was laying on its side. It had kept its shape, but had a lightning shaped crack through it. The one thing that kept us feeling almost normal through the coming weeks was The Press our daily paper still being delivered even though the Press building and staff had suffered so badly themselves.