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Date: 13 Dec 2011

From: BeckerFraserPhotos :Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011

Reference: PADL-000662

Description: Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 taken 13 December 2011 by Ross Becker. Shows aerial photographs of Christchurch city documenting the damage, including Westfield Riccarton (Riccarton Mall). Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called "Flying - selected" Quantity: 104 digital photograph(s).

Date: 20 Feb 2012

From: BeckerFraserPhotos :Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011

Reference: PADL-000725

Description: Photographs showing the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, taken 20 February 2011. Particularly of the Christchurch Arts Centre, Botanic Gardens and Cashel Mall. Includes photographs of damage to the former Cantebury College buildings (Christchurch Arts Centre), people enjoying the Botanic Gardens, the Festival of Flowers (flower arrangements and topiary), Curator's House, temporary information centre, portaloos decorated for the Festival, Cashel Mall memorial, tourists, temporary Westpac Bank in a shipping container, turret of the Canterbury Museum, Police Station (Hereford Street) and the City Art Gallery. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called "Feb 20 - Aerial from WLG, Arts Centre, Bot Gardens" Quantity: 37 digital photograph(s).

Date: 24 June 2012

From: BeckerFraserPhotos :Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011

Reference: PADL-000775

Description: Photographs showing the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 taken on 24 June 2012 by BeckerFraserPhotos, particularly of demolition work and buildings in Christchurch central business district (CBD) red zone. Includes view taken on High Street showing puddle on muddy road, with cranes, Holiday Inn, Link Centre and Westpac Tower in background Includes low angle view taken on Oxford Terrace of the Public Trust building Includes views taken on Hereford Street showing old Post Office Telephone Exchange building at 95 Hereford street, Ibis Hotel Includes views taken in Cathedral Square showing old Christchurch Central Post Office, cranes working on Clarendon Tower and Grant Thornton House, Rydges Hotel, Government Life, diggers on top of huge rubble pile, workman on digger machine beside a lampost boarded over with plywood Includes views taken on Colombo Street showing public looking through barriers and steel supports on Christchurch Cathedral Includes view taken on Worcester Bouevard showing cranes in front of Holy Grail Sports Bar (partial view only, formerly Avon Theatre) and Canterbury Museum Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called 'June 24 - CBD red zone & etc' Quantity: 14 digital photograph(s).

Date: 8-9 July 2011

From: BeckerFraserPhotos :Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011

Reference: PADL-000836

Description: Photographs relating to the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes taken by Ross Becker comprising photographs taken in the CBD (central business district) red zone area taken on 9 July 2011, and photographs of Merivale, Knox Church, Avonside, Stanmore Road taken on 8 and 9 July 2011 during winter season. Includes views of the Richmond Working Mens Club and M.S.A building, London Street, Richmond, "unsafe" sign, Richmond Methodist Church and demolished church hall on Stanmore Road, nearby park. Includes views taken on Bealey Avenue, demolition on site of 118 Bealey Avenue, various signs for relocated businesses. Includes views taken on Victoria Street showing Fidelity House, Procope Coffee House, Knox Church. Includes views taken in Cashmere showing domestic house, wide views of Christchurch city and snowy mountains, cyclists riding up Cashmere Hill, "temporary bus services" sign. Includes views taken on Montreal street showing The Coffee House, traffic cones, Christchurch City Council building, Police Station, guerilla knitting messages on fence, Registry Additions building of Christchurch Arts Centre at 301 Montreal Street (housed Untouched World), electorate office for Nicky Wagner, National MP. Includes views taken on Hereford Street showing messages of support for Dux de Lux restaurant on fence, signs for businesses, closed sign for Thomas's Hotel, Children's Library and old Canterbury Public Library, Ross Becker photographing Library, salvaged stonework outside the Dux de Lux, wooden houses and Art Deco flats. Includes views taken on Worcester Street showing The Arts Centre, shipping containers, scaffolding on clock tower, street busker playing saxophone, Canterbury Museum. Includes views taken on Rolleston Avenue showing Canterbury Museum. Includes views taken on Cambridge Terrace and Worcester Boulevard showing public looking through cordon wire fence, views across the River Avon of buildings on Oxford Terrace, Rydges Hotel, former Public Trust, Our City O-Tautahi (159 Oxford Terrace), bridge, River Avon, wooden sculpture "Te Pou Herenga waka" in front of Christchurch City Council premises, tram lines, Axiom House (109 Cambridge Terrace), 69 Worcester Boulevard (housing Languages International). Includes views taken on Cramner Square showing danger sign outside old house, red stickered townhouses (22 Cranmer Square), damaged Cranmer Court (former Christchurch Normal School on corner of Montreal and Kilmore streets). Includes views taken on Kilmore Street showing demolition crew working on St Luke's Anglican Church, Ross Becker photographing the church. Includes views taken in Avonside suburb showing River Avon, cracks in road alongside river, views of bird life, flooded river banks and reconstruction along Avonside Drive and River Road and Dallington Terrace, household debris and building rubble, closure sign at Avonside Girls High School, Moira Fraser, Avonside Community Group update notice on pole, trucks and digger parked, MED sub station, twisted bridge over river, earthquake damage to streets and houses, water tanks, boys BMX biking and skateboarding, Christchurch earthquake response information sign, waste truck at work, water pipes on pavement. Includes views taken in Merivale and Strowan showing church buildings and detached steeple of Christchurch Chinese Methodist Church 163 Papanui Road, St Mary's Anglican Church (45 Papanui Road and Church Lane), bricks outside damaged Knowles Court 271 Papanui Road during demolition, cleared demolition site. Includes views of the dome being taken off the Regent Theatre, Cathedral Square. Includes views taken on St Aspagh Street showing hospital chimney. Quantity: 510 digital photograph(s).