Churchills Tavern

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Corner of Colombo St and Battersea St. A lot more of the fascade has collapsed.

Churchill's Tavern

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Colombo Street between Moorhouse and Brougham.

Escaping horse

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Churchill Tavern in Sydenham has extensive damage.

Christchurch Earthquake - Churchills Tavern

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A view after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch. Corner of Colombo and Battersea Streets. Given a bit of a HDR process to add "feeling".

Colombo Street, Sydenham - Churchills Tavern

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Still standing in Jan 2011 - but the buildings future is unknown - It is probably destined to be demolished.

20131212_6234_1D3-24 Another New Brighton building comes down (Day 346/365)

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20131212_6234_1D3-24 Another New Brighton building comes down (Day 346/365) The old Esplanade Tavern is being demolished due to damage suffered in the earthquakes of 2011. Another one of New Brighton's iconic buildings to go. #4457

Sydenham Churchills Tavern - the black canopy under all those bricks is wh…

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Reasons why it pays not to be a smoker - if the quake had hit during opening hours there would have been probably half a dozen smokers underneath the black awning crushed by falling bricks.