A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Shipping containers are stacked on the road in front of the west-facing facade.
Man on a bicycle looks through the security cordon on Dundas Street. Diggers and rubble from the Smiths City car parking building in the background.
The remains of several collapsed buildings on Oxford Street in Lyttelton. The sites formerly housed the Lyttelton Lounge cafe, the Opportunity Shop and NZ Souvenir.
An excavator bunching up scrap metal as part of efforts to clear the site of the demolished Hillary and Marshall Limited building on Manchester Street.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Javier, the owner of the Curator's House restaurant, in front of the building that sustained no real damage from the earthquake".
A band performing on the site of a demolished building in Sydenham. A member of the band is playing one of Gap Filler's painted pianos.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought Iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought Iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
A photograph of the badly-damaged former Christchurch Civic Offices on Tuam Street. The building has been fenced off and many windows have been broken.
A photograph of street art on the wall of a building in Sydenham. The photographer believes that the artwork was created by the artist 'Misery'.
A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Shipping containers are stacked on the road in front of the west-facing facade.
A photograph of street art on the wall of a building in Sydenham. The photographer believes that the artwork was created by the artist 'Misery'.
Students from the University of Canterbury preparing a demolished building site in Sydenham. This is where Gap Filler's Community Chess Board is to be built.
A view down the High Street Mall from Cashel Street, looking towards the Port Hills. Rubble from a collapsed building is visible on the right.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
A photograph of the badly-damaged building at 128 Manchester Street. Shipping containers are stacked on the road in front of the west-facing facade.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought Iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought Iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought Iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Removal of the flagpole and wrought iron lattice work from the spire on top of the 110 year old Press building".
The Royal Hotel on the corner of Canterbury Street and Norwich Quay in Lyttelton. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gloucester Street - this big machine munches concrete rubble and reduces it to aggregate for hard fill on building sites".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workers apply steel framing to protect the historic building now the 'Octagon' restaurant on corner of Manchester Street and Worcester Street".
Our City building extensively propped up.
File reference: CCL-2011-08-12-CanterburyPublic Library pre-demolition-040
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Shop parapet toppled in the magnitude 7 earthquake in Christchurch on Saturday 4-9-2010. This building was condemned and demolished on 9 September 2010.
Shop parapet toppled in the magnitude 7 earthquake in Christchurch on Saturday 4-9-2010. This building was condemned and demolished on 9 September 2010.
