Silkannthreades 14/11/2012: Garden, may I be your house?

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 14 November 2012 entitled, "Garden, may I be your house?".

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1937

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An overgrown garden surrounds a damaged house.

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1931

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An overgrown garden surrounds a damaged house.

The House Gate

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Warning tape on the gate of a residential property near Cranmer Square. The photographer comments, "The yellow tape was put on the gate to warn property [owners] that the house beyond was unsafe. Now there is no house, but by the cobwebs on the handle the tape is doing a great job".

20121124_0566_1D3-67 Cunningham House

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Cunningham House at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens is still closed due to earthquake damage. I wonder if it will ever re-open or suffer the demolition fate many other iconic structures in Christchurch have.