A digital photograph in PDF form with caption. Taken from Kingsford St, looking East at 'the Gingerbread house' in Horseshoe Lake.
A photograph of one side of the Locke family's partially-deconstructed house at 392 Oxford Terrace. The photographer comments, "The house was deconstructed over three weeks. The materials were then stored in the shipping container until the house was reconstructed at a new site".
Caption reads: "You can’t do a thing about it but I can’t be bothered going house hunting. I’ll just live each day as best I can. I keep thinking it could change again. The dust here doesn’t bother me, the noise doesn’t bother me. When they start pulling down houses the vibrations don’t bother me. Nothing bothers me. We’re all like that. That’s how you have to be when you can’t do a thing about it."
A partially deconstructed house in Bexley. The roof cladding and parts of the wall cladding have been removed. The photographer comments, "Today I took a drive around the residential area between Bexley and New Brighton. It was a stark reminder to be thankful for the situation we're in and perhaps not complain too much that our garden wall hasn't yet been rebuilt".
A photograph of a red-stickered house on Avoca Valley Road. Weeds have began to grow in the driveway. The stickers indicate that the building is no longer safe to enter.
A photograph captioned, "They're fixing other places first. People over the other side of town are getting their houses fixed. We wonder why".
A digital photograph in PDF format with caption. Image showing an empty lot. The house stood right alongside the Horseshoe Lake reserve.
A photograph of a house at 7 Rees Street. The side of the house has been covered in plastic sheeting. Plywood has been used to board up the door. The number of the house has been spray-painted on the wall next to the door. The letterbox of the house next door also has its house number spray-painted on it.
A damaged house with a red sticker on its front window. The sticker indicates that the building is unsafe to enter. To the side, the brickwork has crumbled and in the front the broken windows have been boarded up. A woman in a florescent vest can be seen to the left, inspecting the house.
A crack in the front lawn of a house in north-east Christchurch. Some liquefaction has pushed up through the crack.
A photograph of the hallway of Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace.
A photograph of the kitchen of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace.
A photograph of the site of Donna Allfrey's demolished house at 406 Oxford Terrace.
A photograph of the former site of Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace, taken from the footpath in front. Allfrey's house was demolished after her land was zoned Red.
A photograph of Robin Duff's house at 386 Oxford Terrace. Plastic sheeting has been placed over sections of the house to keep it water tight.
A photograph of the former site of Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace. Allfrey's house was demolished after her land was zoned Red.
A Civil Defence staff member completing a Level 1 Rapid Assessment inspection form for a damaged house. Some of the brickwork has collapsed from the outer wall of the house and the awnings over the windows have collapsed.
A photograph looking east along Oxford Terrace from outside the former site of Donna Allfrey's house. Allfrey's house was demolished after her land was zoned Red. The sites of many other demolished houses can be seen to the left.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Red stickered. 402 Oxford Terrace, Avon Loop".
A photograph of USAR codes spray-painted on the gate posts of a property on Peterborough Street.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Red stickered. 402 Oxford Terrace, Avon Loop".
A photograph of USAR codes spray-painted on a gate post of a property on Peterborough Street.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Red stickered. 402 Oxford Terrace, Avon Loop".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Great Wall of Sumner containers".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Red stickered. 402 Oxford Terrace, Avon Loop".
Balloons and a sign advertising a garage sale hang from a fence. The photographer comments, "Today, 23/7/2011 the Bexley community in Christchurch got together and held a Bexley wide garage sale. You could pick up a map of the garage sales in Arncliffe St, which meant that people could find all the garage sales even if they were on the back sections. People got together with close neighbours to hold joint Garage Sales. In the area where the garage sales were held all the homes have been 'written off' by the government, as the land on which they sit is too damaged by the Christchurch earthquakes to repair. In places it looked more like a ships graveyard with the hulls of the houses sinking lopsidedly into the sand. Unfortunately for nearly everyone in the red zone they cannot rebuild a new home as sections to build on start now around $2,000 and the government is not paying them enough to buy a plot of land and build a new home. The choices for Bexley residents in most cases is to rent, buy a house at least a few years old or move to Australia to start again. I was told that up to 80% could be off to Oz".
A photograph of a portaloo on the side of a residential street. Many houses had no water or sewerage after the 22 February 2011 earthquake and portaloos were placed along the street for people to use.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing Siobhan Murphy's house at 436 Oxford Terrace.
A photograph looking down the Avon River to the house at 2 Bangor Street.
A photograph of the house at 2 Bangor Street, taken from across the Avon River.