The Victoria Clock Tower. Stopped at 12:51... On February 22nd 2011. |
Check out the finial |
Former Cranmer Bridge Club (being turned into a photography studio) |
A bright bit of colour. |
An artwork outside the Art Gallery. Check out the places. |
Artwork outside the Christchurch City Council. Does this mean they're a slimey lot or just very flexible? |
Worcester Chambers, built initally for Digby's Commercial College - a secretarial school. |
He's been re-potted. |
Check out the cracks! |
Remember the statue of Robert Falcon Scott lying forlornly in the museum? This is where he should be. |
They're reinstating the tram tracks! (And the guy in the middle was good enough to pose for me. I thanked him with a thumbs up.) |
Kate Sheppard National Memorial. It's in the shadow of that propped up building by Rydges - and Rydges itself, so this is as close as we could get. |
Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings. The ones that started out as wood before being made out of earthquake-prone stone. I think Carl said it was a World Heritage Site. |
Hebe. |
You wouldn't thing that to the right of this scene is the Town Hall, with its upheaved (is that a word?) steps. |
Victoria Square was used initially by Maori and then Pakeha (white New Zealanders for those overseas) as a trading and market area. This carving tells the Maori story. |
Historic and pretty willow. (A bird had dirtied the plaque and I read it as "Weeping Widow".) |
How'd you like to abseil from the top floor of that!? Forsythe Barr building. |
Scaffolding stairs. The only way into the Forsythe Barr building now. |
What remains of the Edmonds (of baking powder fame) Band Rotunda. The rest has been deconstructed until they decide what to do with it. |
Site of the tragic PGC (Pyne Gould Corporation) collapse. |
Felix (8) and Lukas (6) playing with the carpark |
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