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Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of pipes lifted out of the ground at a petrol station in New Brighton.

The old Fire Brigade Station prior to 1913

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Black-and-white photograph of a brick building, with staff and horse-drawn carriages from the Fire Brigade of Christchurch in the foreground. Photograph taken c1906.

New quake safety doubts over police stations, hospitals

It's been revealed that not a single one of New Zealand's 315 police buildings constructed before 2011 have had a full earthquake safety check. Canterbury's district health buildings and a central Wellington cinema are among other major structures needing checks. Phil Pennington joins us with the details.

Digital Photograph: Lyttelton Fire Station, London Street, Lyttelton

Images, Canterbury Museum

One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 19 November 2011 showing the Lyttelton Fire Station. The building is fenced off and unused due to earthquake damage. To the right of the photograph the front of one of the Fire Appliances and the shipping containers set up in the rear car park to provide temporary facilities can be seen. Followin...

Steam and Speed, Christchurch’s Railway Station in 1878

Articles, Lost Christchurch

Tiny British-made locomotive engines first began chugging between Ferrymead’s Wharf on the estuary and the city on December 1st, 1863. This was New Zealand’s first public railway line, …

NicksPlace Photograph 246

Images, UC QuakeStudies

The old Lyttelton Fire Station, surrounded by cordon fencing and with its parapet supported by plywood sheeting.

Alternative Radio : exhibiting radio and music heritage after the Christch…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

This article examines the representation of Christchurch, New Zealand, student radio station RDU in the exhibition Alternative Radio at the Canterbury Museum in 2016. With the intention of ‘making visible what is invisible’ about radio broadcasting, the exhibition articulated RDU as a point of interconnection between the technical elements of broadcasting, the social and musical culture of station staff and volunteers, and the broader local and national music scenes. This paper is grounded in observations of the exhibitions and associated public programmes, and interviews with the key participants in the exhibition including the museum's exhibition designer and staff from RDU, who acted as independent practitioners in collaboration with the museum. Alternative Radio also addressed the aftermath of the major earthquake of 22 February 2011, when RDU moved into a customised horse truck after losing its broadcast studio. The exhibition came about because of the cultural resonance of the post-quake story, but also emphasised the long history of the station before that event, and located this small student radio station in the broader heritage discourse of the Canterbury museum, activating the historical, cultural, and personal memories of the station's participants and audiences.

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Images, UC QuakeStudies

A man fills bottles from a water supply at a Red Cross aid station on Pages Road

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1939

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a damaged pumping station. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "River Road, Avonside".

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1940

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a damaged pumping station. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "River Road, Avonside".

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Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Clock Tower at old ChCh central Train station (Now movie theatre and science alive activity centre)

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Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Clock Tower at old ChCh central Train station (Now movie theatre and science alive activity centre)

CTV back on air

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The regional television station, Canterbury Television, has begun broadcasting news again for the first time since February's devastating earthquake.