Richmond Working Men's Club

Date: 10 Mar 2012

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

Reference: PADL-000710

Description: Photographs of South New Brighton showing the effects of the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes and the recovery effort, taken 9 March 2012. Shows photographs of walkway at end of Ebtide Street, 'Documenting Christchurch in Photographs' workshop at Upper Riccarton Community and School Library Learning Centre, Richmond Club building, empty site of the Methodist Church hall in Stanmore Road, and road work machines. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library within a folder called "Mar 10 - seminar -Sth Brighton" Quantity: 6 digital photograph(s).

Date: 19 September 2011

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

Reference: PADL-001654

Description: Photographs relating to the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 taken by Ross Becker on 18 September 2011 mainly in Christchurch city and suburbs. Images taken in the city show: 6th SCAPE biennial artwork installation in Hereford Street, demolition at the Library Chambers (old public library), Cambridge Terrace, steel bracing on the Municipal Council Chamber, Worcester Street, Lumley and BDO buildings, Victoria Street, and temporary food businesses in Montreal Street and Bealey Avenue. Images taken in the suburbs show: damage on Woodham Road, Richmond Working Men's Club; slumping and earthquake damage to roads, paths, and houses in Kerr's Reach residential red zone area; trucks, road cones, and earthworks on Wainoni Road and Belmont Street green zone area; Our Lady Star of the Sea church, Sumner; shipping containers and truck on Wakefield Avenue, Richmond; demolition sites, Woolston Lodge, Community Centre, school, and other buildings on Ferry Road. Arrangement: Files were originally delivered to the Library in a folder called "CEQ 14 - Sept 16-20 2011/Sept 19 - City, Burwood, Shirley, Sumner, Woolston" Quantity: 80 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).