Peterborough St focus. Wednesday 11.05.11. Eleven weeks post 22 February 2011 quake, M6.3, I parked my car at Peterborough St / Cambridge Tce. Weeks before, when I'd trekked that way along parallel Salisbury St, Peterborough St was still in the CBD, NO GO red-zone, during the National State-of-Emergency. The National State-of-Emergency was now over, but the NO GO red-zone was still intact, guarded by cops & NZDF-soldiers at steel-mesh-fence-cordon checkpoints. Cordon-fences had moved inwards, strangling the CBD red-zone. Peterborough St fence-cordon, threat-signs:
EXTREME
DANGER
KEEP
OUT
From my snaps, I gave lots of destruction details in Peterborough St. Multiply that out 1000s of time for an idea of Christchurch destruction. I trekked both sides of Peterborough St & Cambridge Tce to Montreal St return:
Peterborough St: Many red-stickered ruins had DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-tape across driveways, or gates, or doors, or windows. Those ruins would be demolished:
*Corner ruined-house: broken steel-garden-gates, tilted-garage, green-portaloo on footpath. A jogger passed. The house would be demolished & rebuilt. Opposite the ruin, a stray fox terrier ran along the cracked & displaced tarseal-footpath beside Avon River. Many dogs & cats became strays during quake-times.
*Fallen brick porch-wall, brick-rubble on footpath. More brick-rubble-heaps on the opposite footpath.
*Fallen brick-chimney & side wall, rooms exposed, brick-rubble in driveway, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-taped. A texting girl stood on the footpath awaiting a lift. The house would be demolished.
*Red-stickered, two-storey, fallen-brick side-walls, exposed roof-space, exposed inner-wall & exposed rooms, garage-roof conked by fallen- bricks, brick-rubble in garden, QLD, USAR / TF pink spray-painted wall. Steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-taped.
*Red-stickered, semi-detached two-storey, boarded-doors & boarded-windows, pink spray-painted QLD TF1 28/2, steel-mesh-fenced-cordoned, DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-taped.
*Red-stickered house, boarded-front-door, overgrown-garden.
*Yellow-stickered house. Boarded-front-door. DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-taped.
*Boarded-house-windows, garage-door hanging open, orange spray-painted Taiwan 28 Feb. Grey-quakemire by garage.
*patrick architecture sign by a front-gate, pink spray-painted USAR / TF graffiti:
NG
QLD TF1
28/2
1721
Footpath green spray-painted:
NZRT2
C
24/2
Four days later, a Queensland USAR / TF team had double-checked a NZRT team.
11.05.11. Jogger, Feb 22 quake damaged house, Cambridge Tce / Peterborough St. The house would be demolished / rebuilt
11.05.11. Green portaloo, Feb 22 quake damaged house, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Cars & Feb 22 quake rubble, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Texting girl, Feb 22 quake damaged house, Peterborough St. The house would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house, Peterborough St. The house would be demolished
11.05.11. Two Feb 22 quake damaged, steel mesh cordoned houses, Peterborough St. The houses would be demolished
Council wanted citizens' input for Council to provide CERA a draft-rebuild-plan for Christchurch-CBD, but citizens were forbidden entry into the CBD red-zone, guarded by NZDF-soldiers & cops. Citizens were expected to gaze at a website of vicarious quake-hell, then provide input how to morph Christchurch-CBD into nirvana. Never-mind existing in broken-houses, crapping in portaloos & chemical-toilets & dodging lumps & cracks on broken-roads for months.
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, red stickered, USAR / TF graffitied, 2 storey, brown house, Peterborough St. The house would be demolished
11.05.11. Green portaloo & Feb 22 quake rubble, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, red stickered, USAR / TF graffitied, 2 storey, semi-detached houses, Peterborough St. The houses would be demolished
The red-zone website-pics were taken several weeks post 22 February 2011 quake in April, poor quality, sanitized pics, someone's idea of what a quake-set should be. Whoever paid for the pics was vampired: crap-colour, dark-pics, sun-strike pics, poor resolution, no interpretation of ground-level pics, no upper-storeys where much damage happened. Some major red-zone CBD streets weren't done, like Barbadoes St, Salisbury St, Peterborough St, Oxford Tce, St Asaph St, Montreal St, the four Avenues. (A year later the website would be gone from the internet).
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged house & overgrown garden, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, DANGER KEEP OUT, white, plastic taped house, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned, USAR / TF graffitied, garage, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned house, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, architect's gate & USAR / TF graffiti, Peterborough St / Madras St. C meant Clear, no bodies
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, novo bldg, Peterborough St / Madras St. Novo bldg would be demolished
From Peterborough St I watched changing of the orange Hi-Vis vested Territorials guard, Madras St / Kilmore St: ROAD CLOSED. Checkpoint-hut. NO GO red-zone. Several NZDF-soldiers swapped over. Orange-plastic-road-cones, steel -mesh-fence-cordon. A yellow Hi-Vis jacketed cop hovered. The Poplars, a creamy multistorey ruin behind would be demolished. It was just one of many variable-checkpoints I saw on the CBD-cordon. CBD military-checkpoints would carry on for 28 months while CERA slowly shrunk the CBD-cordon. There were no military-checkpoints in the suburbs.
Peterborough St: There was much liquefaction-damage, many ruins, several complete-demolition-sites or part-demolition-sites & a demolition-in-progress, Peterborough St / Victoria St : gouged Early Childhood Education & Antique World multi-storey ruin. Colourful footpath portaloos abounded. USAR / TF graffiti on doors, walls & footpaths added colour to quaked Peterborough St. The Southern Demolition digger wasn't working then, as workmen chucked debris from the Victoria St ruin onto a huge rubble-pile, stationery fluttering around. On Victoria St stood a smaller salvage-heap of copper. As the ruin was steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, what valuables were slipped into demolishers' pockets? Nice to be able to demolish hundreds of red-zoned cordoned-ruins, protected by DANGER signs, fence-cordons, cops & NZDF-soldiers, without public & owners' scrutiny.
Months later, The Press published stories of demolishers' denials about flogging "salvage" goods at a Christchurch warehouse. Owners were assured in writing nothing was salvageable. "Looters" were blamed of course. (The Press 11.10.11, Community House demolition).
Later in a published book, Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce boss Townsend said that CBD red-zone business-owners sneaked past the red- zone-cordon to retrieve business-records from their cordoned-buildings. Townsend didn't divulge names nor buildings. If true, checkpoint-cops & NZDF-soldiers were slack. That made Arie Voorkamp's & mate's March hassling by soldiers & cops as "looters" for stealing light bulbs ridiculous. The pair were gaoled without charge for days. Why didn't cops or NZDF-soldiers arrest Townsend's sneaky-business owners invading the cordon?
Peterborough St, ghost-housing:
*Red-stickered house. Overgrown-garden. DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-taped. Orange spray-painted, Taiwan 28 Feb, on garden-fence. Shattered tarseal on footpath.
*Crumbled concrete-ring-foundations. Roof-corner black-tarped. Shattered tarseal on footpath.
*Collapsed roof-gutters, exposed roof-space. Buckled brick side-wall. Garden-wall, yellow spray-painted, Taiwan 28 Feb.
*Two-storey house, collapsed-garage, brick-rubble & roof-rubble in garden, yellow / black plastic-barrier-taped.
*Block of flats: Cracked concrete-wall, snapped concrete-curb on driveway. Orange spray-painted:
Taiwan
28 Feb
0942
0945
The Taiwan USAR team took three minutes to check a block of flats!
*Yellow-stickered house. Front-door, DANGER KEEP OUT white-plastic-barrier-taped. Door-sign:
Danger
Do Not enter Sign on window: Danger
Live Wires
11.05.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, USAR / TF graffitied, houses, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Yellow, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, USAR / TF graffitied housing & liquefactioned driveway, Peterborough St
Peterborough St: Sunk, tilted, crooked ruins all along Peterborough St: red-stickered, DANGER plastic-barrier-taped, steel-mesh-fence- cordoned. Overgrown-gardens. USAR / TF spray-painted graffiti on footpaths, walls & windows: Taiwan... NSW... QLD...
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned Shipleys Audiovisual, Peterborough St. Shipleys Audiovisual would be demolished
11.05.11. USAR / TF graffiti & Feb 22 quake damaged staircase, Shipleys Audiovisual, Peterborough St. Shipleys Audiovisual would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, grey liquefaction muddied Knit World, Peterborough St
A tilted block of eight flats was evacuated: grey-quakemire a foot deep in places, gates flung aside, garden-furniture in deep silt, walls skewed, paving-stones buckled. Looking into a ground-floor flat, I saw jumbled, rotting furniture, mould, scum & green seedlings growing in grey-silt on the rotting, lounge carpet. The eight flats would survive the quakes.
City Oasis Motel ruin: Signs of quick evacuation: Strewn pots, pans, bottles, crockery, glasses, bedding, mail. City Oasis Motel would be demolished.
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, water pipe, pavement & green portaloo, Peterborough St
Peterborough St, ghost-housing:
*Block of flats: Crooked concrete-block gate-post. Muddy-footpath, broken-tarseal.
*Red-stickered house. Brick-rubble in garden. Front-door stained-glass-windows intact. Tilted garage-walls. Green-portaloo on footpath.
*Red-stickered two-storey house: boarded front-door, tilted wooden-porch, displaced louvre-window-panes, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, DANGER KEEP OUT white plastic-barrier-taped.
*Red-stickered house.
*Peterborough St / Manchester St ruined-flats. Fallen-gables, fallen-walls, exposed rooms, exposed roof-spaces, gable-boards & brick-rubble in garden & driveway. The flats would be demolished.
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged garage, gatepost & pavement, Peterborough St
11.05.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake, red stickered house, stained glass windows & quake rubble, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, rubbish bins, green portaloo, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake tilted garage, Peterborough St
11.05.11. White, plastic tape, steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, red stickered, USAR / TF graffitied, double storey, white house, Peterborough St
Peterborough St, ghost-businesses spooked me:
*Knit World: Deep grey-silt outside, doors open, silt on floors, office furniture was straightened.
*Shipleys Audiovisual: Liquefaction-damaged, abandoned, door open, broken-staircase inside.
*Travel Agency: Fallen-brochures & fallen-poster.
11.05.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged flats, Peterborough St. The left bldgs would be demolished
11.05.11. Sept 4 quake damaged, Feb 22 quake trashed bldg, Peterborough St. The bldgs would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, red stickers, Burgundy portaloo & USAR / TF graffiti, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, red stickers, Burgundy portaloo & Peterborough St view, quake trashed St Lukes Anglican Church transept. St Lukes would be demolished
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged St Lukes Close, Peterborough St / Manchester St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, steel mesh fence cordoned, NO GO red zone, Manchester St. St Lukes Anglican Church left would be demolished
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, St Lukes Anglican Church, quake damaged transept & nave, Manchester St. St Lukes would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned Advantage Finance, Peterborough St / Manchester St. Advantage Finance would be demolished. 2019. Peterborough Urban Farm would grow produce on site
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, double garages & 2 storey house, Peterborough St / Manchester St. The bldgs would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damage, City Oasis Motel, Peterborough St. City Oasis would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, abandoned pots & saucepans, City Oasis Motel, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned, tilted flats, Peterborough St. The flats would survive the quakes
EXTREME DANGER KEEP OUT. Some ruins Like St Lukes Anglican Church, Manchester St / Kilmore St, were damaged in the 4 September 2010 quake, then were trashed in the 22 February 2011 quake. I saw the fallen transept-wall & fallen western nave-wall from Peterborough St. I saw right through St Lukes transept from one open-gable to the other open-gable, wooden roof-arches were OK. St Lukes would be demolished. Burgundy portaloo on footpath. Orange spray-painted USAR graffiti on St Lukes Close wall:
N
Taiwan
28 Feb
1015
1058
WHOLE COM
There was only a 43 minutes' squizz of St Lukes Close, by Taiwan USAR. Imagine being cordoned from your home or business & your possessions rifled by dirty strangers. That happened thousands of times in cordoned, lockdown Christchurch by USAR / TF & RT searchers. Little rescuing went on, as many home-owners & business-owners fled their properties during quakes.
Grey-quakemire was still in carparks, driveways & roadsides. Footpaths were cracked, buckled or humped, burst water-pipes trickled in places.
Peterborough St, more ruined-housing:
*Advantage Finance: yellow-stickered, carpets in liquefactioned-garden, padlocked front-gate, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. 2019. The demolition- site & neighbouring demolition-sites would be used to grow produce for Peterborough Urban Farm. (See Coda).
*Two-storey house, cracked tilted-garage, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. Beige-portaloo on footpath. The house would be demolished.
*Three-storey house, boarded-wall, a blue-tarp covered the demolished chimney-space. Cracked, tilted brick garden-wall, white-plastic-barrier-tape cordoned.
*Red-stickered two-storey house, fallen brick-parapet, fallen brick-walls, exposed rooms, rubble in garden, white-plastic-barrier-tape- cordoned.
*Red stickered house, fallen brick chimney, broken, stone garden wall, white, plastic tape cordoned. Garden wall stones & Burgundy portaloo on pavement.
*Red-stickered two-storey wooden-house, fallen brick-firewall, brick-rubble in garden, tilted lower bay-window, weakest point, broken bay- window, leaded-glass, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. The house would be demolished.
11.05.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, boarded house, Peterborough St
11.05.11. White, plastic, tape cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, 2 storey house, Peterborough St. The house would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged, 2 storey house, Peterborough St. I saw several such 2 storey houses, lower storey bent under the weight of the upper storey, bay window weakest point & crooked. The house would be demolished
Two North Islander blokes asked me how to see Christ Church Cathedral: "The nearest you'll get is a zoom-view southwards down Colombo St from the red-zone-cordon," I said. "Or go to Worcester St Bridge by Cambridge Tce for a view of Christ Church Cathedral obscured by a red-zone steel-mesh-fence-cordon & autumn trees."
It would be months before Anglicans deconsecrated Christ Church Cathedral & CERA allowed citizens to part-view cordoned Christ Church Cathedral. Thereafter Heritage-hailers would cry, "Save the Cathedral!" And obstructing court-cases by retired politicians Jim Anderton & Philip Burdon would retard the rebuild of Cathedral Sq, while Christ Church Cathedral ruin rotted for years.
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, No Go, red zone: PWC left (to be demolished) Forsyth Barr centre (to be refurbished as Crowne Plaza Hotel) Natcoll right, would be demolished, 2012
Peterborough St, more ruins:
*Two-storey tilted-house, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned.
*Seven-storey Natcoll: boarded-windows, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, a fence sign:
EXTREME DANGER KEEP OUT
Jake did tertiary studies at Natcoll, which would be demolished.
*Six-storey MEDLAB, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. MEDLAB BLOOD TEST OPEN sign, pink spray-pained by USAR / TF graffiti. I saw CBD red-zoned, abandoned PWC, red-zone abandoned Town Hall, red-zone abandoned Forsyth Barr multi-storey & a collapsed two-storey brick-building behind: collapsed roof-space, exposed-rooms, brick-rubble & concrete-rubble in carpark.
*I saw salvaged Office-furniture & office-equipment in an open house-garage. Green-portaloo on footpath.
*Two-storey wooden-house, side-wall collapsed, brick-rubble & wood-rubble & collapsed scaffolding heaped in garden, rooms-exposed, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. The house would be demolished. Beige-portaloo on footpath.
*Another two storey wooden-house, collapsed-roof, collapsed upper brick-walls, broken window-panes, exposed-rooms, rubble in garden, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. The house would be demolished.
*Red-stickered Pegasus Rental Cars: boarded front-door, fallen brick-wall, brick-rubble on concrete-pad, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned.
*Peterborough St / Colombo St: Red-stickered, corner building, boarded ground-floor-windows. Empty demolition-site across Colombo St, parked orange-digger. Next-door, a two-storey building awaited demolition: ground-floor-windows gone, exposed-shop, fallen brick-gable, an old, black-painted-advert on a brick side-wall:
[H]OUSEHOLD
AXON
*Diagonally opposite corner: Abandoned Office Max, fallen office-furniture, fallen-shelving, fallen-stationery, nothing in place, liquefaction- dust everywhere.
*Steel-mesh-fence-cordoned, Colombo St south view: Town Hall would be restored. The opposite Convention Centre ruin would be demolished. Abandoned shops. Workmen in hard hats & orange, Hi-Vis vests worked near an orange-digger & demolition-rubble-trucks. Three highrise ghosts would be demolished: PWC, tilted Hotel Grand Chancellor, Copthorne Hotel. Forsyth Barr would be restored as Crowne Plaza Hotel. Christ Church Cathedral would be reinstated from 2021, but work would stop due to lack of funds...) fallen-tower, stone rubble-heap in Cathedral Sq. A steel "Battering Ram" supported the western-wall & rose-window.
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake bent, 2 storey house, Peterborough St. Natcoll behind would be demolished, 2012
11.05.11. EXTREME DANGER KEEP OUT steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, Natcoll in No Go, red zone & CBD high rises, Peterborough St. PWC & Forsyth Barr right. Natcoll & PWC would be demolished, 2012. PWC demolished for the new RC Cathedral precinct. Forsyth Barr would be refurbished as Crowne Plaza Hotel
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefactioned MEDLAB bldg, NO GO, red zone, Peterborough St. MEDLAB would be demolished, 2012
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, collapsed bldg in No Go, red zone, Kilmore St / Colombo St. Christchurch quake damaged Town Hall behind. The bldg would be demolished. Town Hall would be repaired
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, green portaloo & garage storage, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, beige portaloo, rubbish bin, quake damaged house, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, part demolition, 2 quake trashed houses, Peterborough St. The houses would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, blitzed Pegasus Rental Cars & trashed house, Peterborough St. Pegasus Rental Cars would be demolished
Peterborough St: Concrete-curbs & iron-drain-covers by Cranmer Court ruin were broken or buckled. Opposite was a concrete-slab scoured by digger-tracks where a hotel once stood. Nearby a storage-garage stood wide open. By another garage, three adults wrestled a crooked- door open. Cranmer Court was damaged in the 4 September 2010 quake, trashed in the 22 February 2011 quake, stone-rubble everywhere, Montreal St / Kilmore St sides. After more damage in the 13 June 2011 quake & Xmas Quake 2011, Cranmer Court would be demolished after protests. 2023. Cranmer Terraces would be built on-site.
Behind damaged Jubilee Clock Tower stood grey Victoria Mansions ghost: Cracked back-walls & cracked front-walls. Wiggly-lines of pink spray-paint at ground-level on walls checked for liquefaction-settlement. Victoria Mansions would survive the quakes, but was abandoned for years.
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged bldgs, faux pissoir, Peterborough St / Colombo St. The cnr bldg would be demolished, replaced by a cnr park, then a new office bldg
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, faux pissoir, quake damaged, brick bldg, Peterborough St / Colombo St. Brick "Axon" brick bldg would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St cordon view, NO GO, red zone, Colombo St. Brick "Axon" bldg would be demolished, also bldgs both sides of street beyond "Axon," except blue, high rise, Forsyth Barr which would be refurbished as Crowne Plaza Hotel
11.05.11. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Demolition site, Colombo St, seen from Peterborough St cordon. Old bldgs right would be demolished too. Quake trashed Town Hall behind right would be repaired. Forsyth Barr high rise, Feb 22 quake damaged, stairwell steps collapsed, would be refurbished as Crowne Plaza Hotel
11.05.11. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. Orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, Colombo St, collapsed tower, Christ Church Cathedral, NO GO, red zone. Only current view of Christ Church Cathedral, collapsed tower, citizens banned
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, Colombo St demolition site. Behind: PWC & quake tilted Hotel Grand Chancellor. Both would be demolished. Copthorne Hotel & Forsyth Barr right, in CBD NO GO, red zone. Copthorne Hotel would be demolished. Forsyth Barr would be refurbished as Crowne Plaza Hotel
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake trashed travel agency, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake trashed Office Max showroom, Peterborough St / Colombo St
Peterborough St / Durham St Nth: By Christchurch Casino, two NZDF-soldiers, wearing orange Hi-Vis vests, checkpointed the red-zone CBD from their wooden-hut, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned.
Peterborough St / Victoria St: Christchurch Casino: basement-flooded, water-pumping, closed. Crowne Plaza Hotel ruin & Copthorne Hotel ruin in the red-zone would be demolished. Victoria St by Christchurch Casino: no traffic, deserted, a cold wind funnel.
A yellow-sticker, dated 2/3/11, on a Christchurch Casino door read: MINOR DAMAGE TO BASEMENT LEVEL COLLMNS (sic). Why did CD, then CERA allow Christchurch Casino to survive demolitions, while many other Peterborough St buildings would be demolished? Having read that sticker, you wouldn't catch me visiting Christchurch Casino. How many more soggy cover-ups happened in the forbidden CBD red-zone?
Victoria St: Opposite the Casino: closed shops, closed restaurants, all pink, or green, or orange QLD TF1 28/2 spray-painted graffiti on glass-doors & glass-windows. At PAWNSHOP: an Asian woman packed her car full of boxes. A closed restaurant: broken-glasses strewn on the patio, empty-bottles & empty-glasses in a flower-tub, abandoned 11 weeks before.
Opposite the Casino: Early Childhood Education & Antique World demolition was in progress. (Described above). Next-door: clean demolition- site concrete-slab, a workman fixed underground cables. New DJCA Sidekick would be built on Early Childhood Centre site.
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged bldg, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake junk, USAR / TF graffiti, Peterborough St. CLEAR meant no bodies
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, UNDEFEATED faux pissoir, quake damaged Convention Centre, Peterborough St. Convention Centre would be demolished. 2018-20. CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae would be build by Cathedral Sq
11.05.11. Council conferred with citizens, (Expo) before making a CBD draft rebuild plan for CERA. NZ National govt & EQC awaited geotech reports about land stability, while insurers counted shekels & passed the buck.
13.05.11 letter we received from our FinTel insurer:
"...You should be aware that for those claims involving EQC, we are unable to finalize these until EQC have made their decision. For properties where the damage is considerable, the work is likely to take months to plan, implement and complete. If your property is in an area severely impacted by the liquefaction issues, EQC and local government response to rectification of these land issues will play a central role in our scheduling of work..."
Peterborough St: More ruins seen, jumbled order, while I zig-zagged back to my car:
*Behind the CBD steel-mesh-fence-cordon: several faux pissoirs, posters yelling: UNDEFEATED
*The Est@blishment, eight-storey, concrete tilt-slab building: damaged at two corners, boarded-door, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. The Est@blishment would be demolished. Graffito on footpath's steel SEWER cover:
FONTERRA
STOP SHITTING
IN OUR RIVERS
*Three-storey office building: fallen second-storey outer brick wall, windows intact, patched with black-plastic where bricks fell between windows, brick-rubble & fallen plastic-rubbish-bins in carpark next door, steel-mesh-fence-cordoned. In the front-garden a crumpled-sign on a table: STRAWBERRY FARE.
*Next-door offices: salvaged-furniture, pink spray-painted NSW TF1 graffiti on office-wall.
*ARCHIVES building: pink spray-painted, NSW TF1 graffiti on glass-doors, salvaged office-furniture, office-equipment & rubbish in carpark.
*Salvation Army Divisional HQ; CMS House; Valuers McCormack & McKellar; Aoraki House; Guardian Trust all pink spray-painted NSW TF1 graffiti on glass-windows & glass-doors. Hand-written message on Salvation Army HQ glass-door: WE ARE STILL OPERATING
PLEASE PHONE...
CMS House & Guardian Trust would survive the quakes.
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake junk, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Mini, USAR / TF graffiti, pedestrian, Peterborough St. CLEAR meant no bodies
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, rubbish bins, USAR / TF graffiti, Peterborough St. CLEAR meant no bodies
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Copthorne Hotel in NO GO, red zone. Both hotels would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Peterborough St view, Salvation Army HQ right, Christchurch Casino left, Durham St Nth
11.05.11. Peterborough St. CMS House, McCormack & McKeller Auctioneers would survive the quakes
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Guardian Trust, USAR / TF graffitied, Peterborough St / Durham St Nth. Copthorne Hotel right would be demolished. Guardian Trust bldg would survive the quakes
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Orange, Hi-Vis vested, NZDF soldiers by their wooden, cordon hut. Feb 22 quake, Durham St Nth, NO GO red zone checkpoint. Copthorne Hotel would be demolished
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, Durham St Nth, NO GO red zone. Orange, Hi-Vis vested, NZDF soldier, checkpoint. Quake damaged Crowne Plaza Hotel, awaited demolition
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Christchurch Casino, Peterborough St / Durham St Nth. The Est@blishment bldg behind would be demolished
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake, yellow digger demolishing Early Childhood Education & Antique World, Peterborough St / Victoria St. DJCA Sidekick would be built on site
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, yellow stickered, Christchurch Casino back door, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, Christchurch Casino signs, Peterborough St / Victoria St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, deserted Victoria St, Christchurch Casino left & view of quake damaged Crowne Plaza Hotel in cordoned, NO GO red zone. Crowne Plaza Hotel would be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake closed Christchurch Casino, Victoria St
11.05.11. ROAD CLOSED. EXTREME DANGER KEEP OUT steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake deserted Crowne Plaza Hotel in NO GO red zone, Victoria St / Kilmore St, Christchurch. Crowne Plaza Hotel would be demolished
11.05.11. EXTREME DANGER KEEP OUT. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake deserted Copthorne Hotel & Riverlands House in NO GO red zone, Victoria St / Kilmore St, Christchurch. Copthorne Hotel & Riverlands House would be demolished, Riverlands House rebuilt
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged, Riverlands House & closed shops, deserted Victoria St. Riverlands House would be demolished & rebuilt
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake skip, UNDEFEATED faux pissoir, closed shops, Peterborough St / Victoria St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake demolition site view, orange, Hi-Vis vested workman, quake damaged bldg, Victoria St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, storage garage & demolition site view, Early Childhood Education demolition site, Victoria St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake, liquefaction damaged curb & footpath, Peterborough St
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged THE EST@BLISHMENT, Peterborough St. A concrete tilt slab bldg. I saw lots of tilt slab bldgs with quake damaged cnrs & slab joins. The Est@blishment would be demolished
11.10.11. Victoria St view, The Est@blishment demolition, Peterborough St. Copthorne Hotel left would also be demolished
11.05.11. Feb 22 quake damaged Cranmer Court, Peterborough St / Montreal St. Cranmer Court would be demolished after protests
11.05.11. Steel mesh fence cordon. Feb 22 quake damaged The Peterborough, Peterborough St / Montreal St. The Peterborough would survive the quakes
*Trekked Peterborough St, Victoria St. 226 snaps.
Coda:
Sept 2019. I would trek Peterborough St again. Many ruins were demolished, most replaced by new office-blocks, new housing & new flats.
Peterborough St / Manchester St: Peterborough Urban Farm grew produce on demolition-sites. Information board:
WELCOME TO
PETERBOROUGH
URBAN FARM
PRODUCE SALES
YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME
URBAN FARM
COMPOSTING
COMMUNITY LUNCH...
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