Before the Quake - Downtown Christchurch

[drcuriosity]

Just spent an hour or so going through the bunch of downtown photos I took in July and annotating them with position information, assisted by Google Maps and StreetView images. As it happens, Manchester and High Streets have a lot of old brick buildings and were one of the worse hit areas, from what I hear. I'm thinking of retracing my steps once things are a bit safer, and seeing what changes the quake and its aftershocks have wrought. But for now, here's how it was.

From Christchurch - Even More Building Ref

Also, some quake photo links courtesy of nightwlf:
http://www.crashbang.co.nz/quake040910/index.html
http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/photos.shtml
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/photos/4095395/Latest-photos-7-1-quake

Comments

[lacedwaist.livejournal.com]

Not that I can speak for our digital team, but the library may well be interested in these for their archive if you're amenable.

[drcuriosity]

If interested, they'd be welcome to grab copies with my blessings. Could arrange for copies of the original higher-resolution shots too, if desired.

[lacedwaist.livejournal.com]

That's very kind of you. I'll get talking to peeps as soon as things start returning to some sort of normality at work.

[nightwlf.livejournal.com]

also these, via flickr, pooled resources;
http://www.flickr.com/groups/eqnz/pool/show/

:(

[angryangeltoo.livejournal.com]

I can't believe how the earth just opened up like that :( Is there some kind of fundraising going on I can donate to?

Re: :(

[drcuriosity]

I can't find the Red Cross appeal info at the moment, but you can donate to the Salvation Army appeal here if you so desire.

Repertory Theatre

[lemurkat.livejournal.com]

You don't happen to have a before pic of this theatre, do you? I want to draw it to auction on trademe (as a fundraiser) but all I can find of it without the hole is on streetview and it's not a great picture.

Thank you so much for taking these, I failed to aprpeciate how beautiful the city was until we almost lost it!

Re: Repertory Theatre

[drcuriosity]

Sadly, I didn't get a photo of the Repertory. Was discussing it with a friend up north whose partner used to work there, and went looking, though - best I found was this historical one:

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Photos/Disc11/IMG0069.asp

Hope that's got enough useful for you to be able to fill in the gaps.