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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: 2 May 2012

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

Reference: PADL-000743

Description: Photographs showing the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, taken 2 May 2012, particularly of Christchurch CBD (Central Business District). Shows bumper sticker ('Kia kaha I'm staying Christchurch), Unlimited School, Christchurch Cathedral, Canterbury Provincal Council Chambers, Alice in Videoland sign, restoration work on buildings in High Street, views of buildings (including Westpac building, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Forsyth Barr), Hotel Grand Chancellor and Crowne Plaza demolition, Clarendon Tower, Magistrates Court repair, pavement deformation from liquifaction, workers doing remedial work to buildings, repair work on Edmonds Clock Tower, new construction at 75 Manchester Street, demolition of 248 High Street, street views of intersections of Colombo & Gloucester, Armagh & Colombo, Gloucester & Manchester, Hereford & Manchester, Cashel & Manchester streets, Chancery Lane, Central Library (exterior and interior views), overgrown gardens in Victoria Square, Medlab building under demolition, memorial tributes at PGC (Pyne Gould Corporation) building, 'Info Gap' on the corner of Colombo and Petersborough streets (Students from University of Technology Sydney urban design projects). Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called "May 02 - CBD" Quantity: 118 digital photograph(s).

Date: 8 Feb 2012

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

Reference: PADL-000724

Description: Photographs showing the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, taken 8 February 2011. Particularly of Christchurch City CBD, Riccarton and Bealey. Shows photographs of the temporary InterCity bus depot and Thai restaurant operating out of a caravan and container at Bealey Avenue, damaged Christchurch Cathedral (including the salvaged spire), Central Library in Petersborough Street, make-shift coffee shops in Colombo Street, people witnessing the demolition of a Brannigans building, workers on the site of the Provincial Council Chambers, demolition of the Gallery Apartments, stencillism art, Archives NZ building in Christchurch, Under the Red Verandah (cafe & restaurant), damage to St James Church and Antonio House on Riccarton Road, tombstone of Sibylla Emily Maude (pioneer nurse), St Peter's Anglican Church, the site and remaining rubble, bell tower and oak tree of St Luke's Church, a memorial on the fence outside the St Luke's Church site of 185 crosses signifying the deaths on Feb 22, demolition workers, demolition of Crowne Plaza, cafes and restaurants on Victoria Street, and views from the roof of the BNZ Building (Cathedral Square) showing many of building in the process of being demolished or yet to be demolished (Triangle Chambers, Millennium Hotel, City Council Building in Tuam Street, Holiday Inn Hotel, Police Station, Ibis Hotel, MFL Building, Grant Thornton Building, Christchurch Cathedral, Pacific Tower, Clarendon Towers, Rydes Hotel, Government Life building, Farmers building, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Forsyth Barr). Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called "Feb 8 - City, CBD, Riccarton, Bealey" Quantity: 114 digital photograph(s).

Date: 3 June 2012

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

Reference: PADL-000763

Description: Photographs showing the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 taken on 3 June 2012 by BeckerFraserPhotos, particularly of demolition sites and recovery efforts in Christchurch central city (CBD). Includes views taken around Oxford Terrace and Madras Street showing graffiti on sign for an alternative location for the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church Sunday morning service at the church demolition site on Madras Street, the Edmonds Clock tower under repair on grass at the corner of Madras Street and Oxford Terrace, shows top section removed from bottom section and covered in plywood and duct tape, and a side view of the the ACC building at 258 Oxford Terrace showing bare trees reflected in blue mirror tiles, one tile missing Includes views of two Gap Filler projects, the urban garden landscape at 822 Colombo Street surrounded by graffiti street art murals, and the Butterfly Gap project on the corner of Barbadoes Street and Worcester Street consisting of a colourfully painted shed with butterfly motifs and fabric covered metal cylinders next to the street signs Includes views taken on Kilmore Street showing demolition site of commercial property building at 151 Kilmore Street (Medlab building), shows vast pile of rubble, a digger and shipping container beside half demolished walls, a pile of broken plasterboard and site office next to twisted rubble of building seen from corner of Peterborough and Kilmore Streets, signs saying 'MacKay Leighs Demolition Ltd', 'Site Hazard Board' and 'No Entry' on wire fence in front of badly damaged building at 151 Kilmore Street Includes ground level view of demolition rubble pile on the Christchurch Convention Centre site in front of the Central Library Petersborough, part of Christchurch City Libraries, on Kilmore Street Includes exterior views of new Press House building at 158 Gloucester Street at dusk showing office lights on for The Press newspaper staff and cars parked outside, view from Cathedral Square shows red brick rubble and Cathedral Vistors Centre building in foreground (The Press staff are first to return to central city after red zone cordon was reduced 15 May 2012) Includes views of damaged Christchurch Cathedral showing pallets of stone from the demolished tower ready to be stored, steel structure beside half demolished church, Portacom unit, portaloo and digger in foreground of Citizens War Memorial (or Soldiers War Memorial) and Cathedral. Includes views of 185 Chairs, an art installation by artist Peter Majendie which is a memorial for the 185 people who died as result of February 22 2011 earthquake, shows installation of white chairs and carrycot set beneath autumn coloured trees on site of the destroyed Oxford Terrace Baptist Church Includes views taken on Colombo Street showing two Jurgens excavators with nibbler attachments beside building at 814 Colombo Street, view of barriers and road signs along Colombo Street looking towards the Chalice in the Square (Cathedral Square) from the cordon Includes views taken on Armagh Street, bare autumn trees beside Price Waterhouse Coopers building under deconstruction, several cranes surrounding the Ernst & Young, Forsyth Barr and Price Waterhouse Coopers buildings Includes views taken along the River Avon, a view looking west from the Manchester Street bridge along the river lined with Price Waterhouse Coopers building, a crane and the Edmonds Band Rotunda, a closer view showing the damaged wall lining the section of the Avon River near the Edmonds Band Rotunda, and Charles Luney House at 250 Oxford Terrace reflected in the river Includes exterior view of the Theosophical Society building as it is being prepared for demolition, cracks visible in facade and a 'BFC Group Ltd Contracting' digger in foreground Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called 'June 03 - City" Quantity: 30 digital photograph(s).