Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "City Council crew cleaning up on the Colombo - High Street intersection".
A photograph of closed businesses on High Street. Many windows have been boarded up with plywood and furniture still remains outside.
A photograph of closed businesses on High Street. Many windows have been boarded up with plywood and furniture still remains outside.
A photograph of road works on a residential street in Christchurch. Two workers in high-visibility vests can be seen, one setting up road cones. A digger is sitting on a pile of dug up gravel and earth. Cordon fences have been placed around the site. In the distance, a dump truck can be seen.
Close up of a handwritten message to Christchurch Girls High School at the Cranmer Centre (previously Christchurch Girls High School).
A photograph of workers suspended from a crane in a basket. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Edward Gibbon building on the corner of Madras, St Asaph and High Streets".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "City Council crew cleaning up on the Colombo - High Street intersection".
The CF Cotter & Co. building on High Street. Wooden bracing has been used to hold up the awning. A pink panther toy is sitting on the bracing.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Workers up high on rebuild".
Reporter Jessica Horn is at Burnside High School, where a welfare centre has been set up.
A photograph of One Big Sugar Bowl on High Street. USAR codes can be seen spray-painted on the window and a window pane to the left has been boarded up. Furniture remains on the street.
A photograph of One Big Sugar Bowl on High Street. USAR codes can be seen spray-painted on the window and a window pane to the left has been boarded up. Furniture remains on the street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition workers up high on the Hotel Grand Chancellor".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Demolition workers up high on the Hotel Grand Chancellor".
A photograph of One Big Sugar Bowl on High Street. USAR codes can be seen spray-painted on the window and a window pane to the left has been boarded up with plywood. Furniture remains on the street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A demolition worker up high on the Hotel Grand Chancellor".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Workers up high - working conditions most of us wouldn't want!".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Workers high up in the Marque Hotel/Pacific Tower on Oxford Terrace".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Working on cleaning up food places, a malodourous occupation. Corner of Armagh and Colombo Streets".
A wooden brace holding up a window of the Cramner Centre, formerly Christchurch Girls' High School. The masonry above the window has fallen away during the earthquake.
Wooden bracing holding up the remaining masonry of this wall of the Cramner Centre (formerly Christchurch Girls' High School). Above the bracing, the masonry has fallen away.
An aerial photograph of High, Lichfield, Manchester, and Tuam Streets. The photographs has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "High Street can be seen running from the bottom left to the top right of the photograph. The old Majestic Theatre is prominent halfway up on the left. The prominent streets are Lichfield Street (on the left) and Tuam Street (on the right)".
Looking down High Street from Colombo Street. A public walkway down Colombo Street to a small viewing area in the Square was opened up for a few weekends to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone.
Looking down High Street from Colombo Street. A public walkway down Colombo Street to a small viewing area in the Square was opened up for a few weekends to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone.
Looking down High Street from Colombo Street. A public walkway down Colombo Street to a small viewing area in the Square was opened up for a few weekends to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone.
Looking down High Street from Colombo Street. A public walkway down Colombo Street to a small viewing area in the Square was opened up for a few weekends to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone. The partially demolished Grand Chancellor is visible in the background.
Warped bike stands and liquefaction silt on the corner of High, Colombo and Hereford streets. A public walkway down Colombo Street to a small viewing area in the Square was opened up for a few weekends to allow the public to see inside the Red Zone.
A video about the work which is being conducted in the Christchurch Red Zone in the weeks after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. Members of the New Zealand Army and Civil Defence are working to secure business premises by boarding up broken windows and doors. The video also includes footage of the damage to the Fisher's Building, the Press Building, Ballies Bar, and ChristChurch Cathedral, and many buildings on High Street.
A video of a tour through the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of Armagh Street, Madras Street, Latimer Square, St John's Anglican Church, Hereford Street, the Octagon Live restaurant, the Design and Arts building, the High Street mall, and the Grand Chancellor Hotel. It also includes footage of construction workers cutting up metal beams, and clearing rubble from a building on Manchester Street.
The CBD is slowly being opened up and this is the post - earthquake result of Cashel Mall. A vibrant, fresh look with high end shopping in colourful container shops. A really good step forward for the city.