Deb Robertson's Blog 29/11/2011: The dummy: should it stay or should it go…
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 29 November 2011 entitled, "The dummy: should it stay or should it go???".
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Deb Robertson's Blog 26/11/2011: It's been a long twelve months.... or kee…
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An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 26 November 2011 entitled, "It's been a long twelve months.... or keeping it real parenting teenagers".
Deb Robertson's Blog 28/06/2011: Making it better...
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An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 28 June 2011 entitled, "Making it better...".
Deb Robertson's Blog 09/10/2011: It's spring in Christchurch...
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An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 9 October 2011 entitled, "It's spring in Christchurch...".
The Government Provincial Buildings
Articles, Lost Christchurch
Christchurch has a frontier appearance about it in this photograph taken by Dr. Barker in 1860 from the tower of the Canterbury Provincial Buildings. With little beyond the immediate streets, it c…
Deb Robertson's Blog 23/12/2011: Noooooo! It's happened again... More eart…
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 23 December 2011 entitled, "Noooooo! It's happened again... More earthquakes".
Von Sierakowski & Co, Corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets 1906
Articles, Lost Christchurch
Oscar von Sierakowski’s factory and shop was built on the corner of Colombo and Tuam Streets in 1906. It boasted that it was the largest wire work factory in the colonies, producing decorati…
Holly Lea – a Rich Man’s Folly?
Articles, Lost Christchurch
An elderly man, dressed in a plum coloured suit and bow tie, stands gazing at his nearly completed home. It is September 1900, and this is no ordinary home, it is reputed to be the largest wooden r…
Deb Robertson's Blog 03/08/2011: Drum roll please.... It's the asterisk qu…
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An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 3 August 2011 entitled, "Drum roll please.... It's the asterisk quilt!!!".
Deb Robertson's Blog 22/06/2011: It's not just the water and food you need…
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 22 June 2011 entitled, "It's not just the water and food you need in an emergency...".
Deborah Fitchett's Dreamwidth Blog 26/4/2011: In which it's been two months
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An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 26 April 2011, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which it's been two months".The entry was downloaded on 16 April 2015.
Deborah Fitchett's Livejournal Blog 26/4/2011: In which it's been two mont…
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An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 26 April 2011, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which it's been two months".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
Deb Robertson's Blog 18/11/2011: It must be November cause the Works in Pr…
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An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 18 November 2011 entitled, "It must be November cause the Works in Progress pile has gone CRAZY...".
Deborah Fitchett's Dreamwidth Blog 11/3/2011: In which it's a hard life fo…
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An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 11 March 2011, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which it's a hard life for a cat".The entry was downloaded on 17 April 2015.
Deborah Fitchett's Livejournal Blog 23/12/2011: In which she is home despi…
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An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 23 December 2011, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which she is home despite it all".The entry was downloaded on 13 April 2015.
Deborah Fitchett's Livejournal Blog 11/3/2011: In which it's a hard life f…
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 11 March 2011, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which it's a hard life for a cat".The entry was downloaded on 14 April 2015.
Deborah Fitchett's Dreamwidth Blog 23/12/2011: In which she is home despit…
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 23 December 2011, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which she is home despite it all".The entry was downloaded on 16 April 2015.
Deborah Fitchett's Livejournal Blog 22/3/2011: In which it has been a mont…
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 22 March 2011, posted to Livejournal. The entry is titled, "In which it has been a month (aka, A simple guide to surviving a disaster)".The entry was downloaded on 14 April 2015.
Deborah Fitchett's Dreamwidth Blog 22/3/2011: In which it has been a month…
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
An entry from Deborah Fitchett's blog for 22 March 2011, posted to Dreamwidth. The entry is titled, "In which it has been a month (aka, A simple guide to surviving a disaster)".The entry was downloaded on 17 April 2015.
From Cabstand Corner to Triangle Corner 1884 – 2011
Articles, Lost Christchurch
1884 Outside the City Hotel, a stream of Hackney and Hansom cabs wait for fares at ‘Cabstand Corner’ (later known as the ‘Triangle’.) The year is 1884 and it appears t…
Market Square: swamp, river and raupo in the central city
Articles, Lost Christchurch
It was hard to avoid sinking up to your knees in wet weather in Market Square in 1862. This panoramic photograph shows Christchurch’s Market Place (later renamed Victoria Square) the damp ge…
Mrs Merritt’s Boarding House
Articles, Lost Christchurch
Drunkeness was a serious problem in Christchurch by the late 1870s. It didn’t help that for a city of its size, there were 47 hotels and breweries as opposed to just 10 dentists and chemist …
Edwardian and Elegant Working Class Sydenham c.1912
Articles, Lost Christchurch
Marking Time in Sydenham In 1912, the impressive Sydenham Post Office stood as a sentinel on the busy corner of Colombo and Brougham Streets. It was a huge post office which served a large communit…
Deutsche Kirche, corner of Worcester and Montreal Streets, 1880
Articles, Lost Christchurch
It is the year 1880 and Wilhelmina Arnst and John Christian Aschen have just married in the Deutsche Kirche, on the corner of Worcester and Montreal Streets. They stand outside on the street with t…
St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Kilmore and Manchester Street corner
Articles, Lost Christchurch
The wooden church of St Luke the Evangelist, stood in Manchester Street, just north of the Avon, from 1858 until it was pulled down in 1908 to make way for a larger stone and brick structure, faced…
The Clarendon Hotel – from town house to public house fit for Royalty
Articles, Lost Christchurch
Christchurch’s newest and grandest hotel in the first decade of the 1900s was the Clarendon Hotel situated on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street. It replaced the former two-sto…
NZ Raw blog post 3 March 2011 'Sydenham Church Demolished'
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A post on the NZ Raw blog written by Mark Lincoln on 3 March 2011. Mark says, "Sydenham Church - this is the one that was demolished and then suddenly everyone started asking why it was demolished - somewhere along the line there was a communication error and a demolition company knocked down the church without speaking to the Heritage Trust".
NZ Raw blog post 24 February 2011 'New Christchurch Earthquake Photos'
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A post on the NZ Raw blog written by Mark Lincoln on 24 February 2011. Mark says, "I think this is the first post I wrote after the Feb 2011 earthquake. That first photo was my first view after coming out of the office. There's a popular wide panoramic photo that someone took from the Port Hills of all of the dust rising up from the city - the photo in the blog post shows what it looked like from within the dust cloud! There are people gathering further down the street where a building has collapsed".
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