Some demolished bldgs: Timeball Station, trashed by the Feb 22 Killer Quake & June 13 Quake, gone. (Timeball tower would be rebuilt, reopened 2018); London St, Harbour Light Theatre & Empire Hotel, gone; Oxford St, WCG Plumber bldg, gone; Gladstone Tce, Lyttelton Museum, gone...
Drove from Christchurch up Dyers Pass to Governors Bay & Lyttelton. Dyers Pass to Sign of the Kiwi, several retaining walls, still broken, heaps of stones on pavements.
Lyttelton, built inside a steep caldera: I saw broken, retaining walls, some repaired, many wood braced, or braced with concrete blocks & steel poles.
08.03.12. Dublin St view, Lyttelton Harbour to Banks Peninsula left & Quail Island right. Quake damaged garage left
08.03.12. Multiple Hazard sign, Dublin St
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake trashed, red stickered house, Dublin St
08.03.12. Quake collapsed, steel mesh fence cordoned, retaining walls, Dublin St / Winchester St / Coleridge Tce crossing
08.03.12. Quake collapsed, concrete block braced, retaining wall, Dublin St / Coleridge Tce
08.03.12. Quake damaged, concrete block braced, retaining wall, Dublin St
Dublin St, Lyttelton: Parked. Did a steep, circular trek, covering several blocks, down to Lyttelton Harbour, seeing devastation: Winchester St, Canterbury St, London St, Oxford St, Sumner Rd, Gladstone Quay, Norwich Quay...
08.03.12. Post quake, concrete-block & wood braced, retaining wall, Winchester St / Dublin St. Mt Pleasant backdrop
08.03.12. Yellow stickered, closed house, Winchester St
08.03.12. Asphalt patched pavement. Quake damaged, faded, red stickered house, Winchester St / Canterbury St
Dublin St / Winchester St / Coleridge Tce crossing: Several damaged houses, retaining walls propped by concrete / wood / steel bracing. Dublin St: Several wooden houses, separated from slumped pavement.
Canterbury St down to London St: Bldg repairs. Demolition sites: 2 Canterbury St / London St cnrs.
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quake, braced bldg, Canterbury St
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quake, boarded shop, Canterbury St
08.03.12. Open-air restaurant, quake demolition site, Canterbury St / London St
08.03.12. Post quake library, Canterbury St / London St
London St: Some bldgs open for business. Some shops closed, or relocated. Some weedy, trashy demolition sites. One demolition site, Canterbury St / London St, tables set out as an open-air restaurant. Shanty shops: Port Hole pub traded from orange, shipping containers. Further up London St, BNZ traded from a shipping container.
08.03.12. Shipping container, Port Hole pub, demolition site, Canterbury St / London St
08.03.12. London St, S view, quake demolition sites, incl theatre left
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quake, boarded, abandoned shop, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, steel mesh fence cordoned, demolition site, London St
London St sign:
Bookshop relocated
to Portico
48 London
Street
Since quakes, many business relocation signs. Populations shifted too, from trashed housing, causing a housing crisis: little available or affordable housing to accommodate displaced people. NZ National govt's response: leave it to the market, condoning displaced citizens dossing in caravans, cars, tents, garages, or staying with family & friends. Never mind rebuilders leeching accommodation, pressurising rentals.
08.03.12. Post quake, Bookshop relocation sign, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, business as usual, London St
08.03.12. Quake damaged, steel mesh fence cordoned bldgs, London St
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Post quake, Empire Hotel, demolition site, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, demolition site, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, business as usual, Indian Restaurant, London St
Oxford St / Sumner Rd: Demolition site: concrete dinosaur, an old piano decorating rubble. Next door, ghost Police Station, 1880, steel mesh fence cordoned. Next door, Porta-cabin cop shop, Sumner Rd. Evans Pass to Sumner, closed. Opp cop shop: Canterbury Association ghost house. Bronze plaque:
CANTERBURY CENTENARY
1850-1950
ON THIS SITE STOOD THE HOUSE
ERECTED BY THE CANTERBURY
ASSOCIATION FOR ITS AGENT
J.R. GODLEY IN 1850
08.03.12. TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE. Post quake road works, Oxford St / Sumner Rd
08.03.12. Post quake, demolition site, quake trashed police station, Oxford St / Sumner Rd
08.03.12. Quake demolition site, Oxford St / Sumner Rd
08.03.12. Sumner Rd, post quake, N view, London St. Port Hills backdrop
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Quake trashed house & demolition site, Sumner Rd / Oxford St
08.03.12. Quake trashed house & bronze plaque, memorial to JR Godley, 1st agent for Canterbury Association, 1850, Sumner Rd
08.03.12. Post quake, Sumner Rd, N view, London St. Port Hills backdrop: Bridle Path, Mt Cavendish top right
08.03.12. Quake trashed, Police Station, 1880, Sumner Rd
08.03.12. Post quake, porta-cabin, Police Station, Sumner Rd
08.03.12. Post quake, ROAD CLOSED, Sumner Rd to Evans Pass road works
08.03.12. Post quake, lunch time workmen, Sumner Rd. Lyttelton Harbour, Port Hills backdrop
Oxford St to Gladstone Quay & Norwich Quay: Several demolition sites.
08.03.12. WCG Plumber, demolition site, Oxford St
08.03.12. Post quake, boarded business, Oxford St
08.03.12. Post quake, demolition site, Oxford St
08.03.12. Post quake, demolition site, Oxford St / Norwich Quay. Port Hills backdrop
08.03.12. Post quake, Lyttelton Port entrance, by Pilgrims Rock, overbridge, Norwich Quay
08.03.12. Quake trashed, steel mesh fence cordoned, abandoned Fuze Restaurant, Lyttelton Port entrance, overbridge, Gladstone Quay
Gladstone Quay: Lyttelton Museum gone, demolished. 2 storey, Lyttelton Times, still standing, top storey, brick walls peeled off, rooms exposed.
08.03.12. Post quake, Lyttelton Museum, demolition site, Gladstone Quay
08.03.12. Post quake, Lyttelton Museum, demolition site view: Export log piles, Lyttelton Port. Diamond Harbour, Banks Peninsula backdrop
Lyttelton Port, OK. Wet, woody smell from export log piles.
08.03.12. Quake trashed, steel mesh fence cordoned, boarded, abandoned, Lyttelton Times, Gladstone Quay
08.03.12. Post quake, Pilgrims Rock, Norwich Quay
Norwick Quay, Pilgrims Rock: Demolition sites nearby. Fence cordoned ghosts by harbour entrance. Pilgrims Rock, bronze plaque:
THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE
CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION
KNOWN AS
THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS
LANDED NEAR THIS SPOT
16 th DECEMBER 1850
By Pilgrims Rock a stone wall, bronze plaque:
THIS SITE MARKS THE APPROXIMATE LANDWARD
END OF THE FIRST JETTY AND SEAWALL IN
ERSKINE BAY BUILT BY SHIPWRIGHTS JOHN
CRUBB, JAMES McNEIL AND ROBERT & MAGNUS
ALLAN IN 1849-50 FOR THE CANTERBURY
ASSOCIATION
Norwich Quay: Most businesses closed, including Shadbolt House ghost. Several weedy, demolition sites to Oxford St. Shanty shops: Lyttelton Seafoods, Lyttelton Bakery, porta-cabins trading.
Shadbolt House would be demolished, Oct 2012.
Norwich Quay: Opp Shadbolt House, gift wrapped ghost: red painted walls, golden ribbon around red walls. Wall sign:
All i want
4
Christmas is
an answer from
EQC
Citizens annoyed by EQC's slow claims processing.
08.03.12. Gift wrapped, quake abandoned bldg, Norwich Quay
08.03.12. Quake abandoned, boarded bldg, Norwich Quay
08.03.12. Post quake, Norwich Quay, N view. Port Hills backdrop
08.03.12. Post quake, abandoned Seafarers Centre, Norwich Quay
08.03.12. Post quake, demolition site by Seafarers Centre, Norwich Quay
08.03.12. Quake damaged, Shadbolt House, Norwich Quay. Shadbolt House would be demolished, Oct 2012
08.03.12. Post quake, porta-cabin, Lyttelton Sea Foods, by Shadbolt House, Norwich Quay. Shadbolt House would be demolished, Oct 2012
08.03.12. Post quake, yellow portaloo & rubbish bins, between porta-cabin, Lyttelton Bakery & Shadbolt House, Norwich Quay. Shadbolt House would be demolished, Oct 2012
08.03.12. Post quake demolition site, Lyttelton Bakery, Norwich Quay / Canterbury St
Canterbury St to London St: Some businesses open. Some demolition sites. Some repairs to closed bldgs.
08.03.12. Post quake, steel mesh fence cordoned, braced, part repaired, The Loons, Canterbury St
08.03.12. Post quake, part repaired business, Canterbury St
London St to Dublin St: Some businesses open. Some closed. Some demolition sites. Some survivor housing.
08.03.12. Post quake, Canterbury St / London St, Lyttelton. Mt Pleasant backdrop
08.03.12. Post quake, steel mesh fence cordoned, boarded, closed bldg, London St
08.03.12. Post Quake, St John, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, shipping container BNZ, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, London St, S view
08.03.12. Post quake, Lyttelton Fire Station, steel mesh fence cordoned, part closed, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, Lyttelton fire engine, ready for business, shielded by shipping containers, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, Lyttelton Visitor Centre, business from a shipping container, London St
08.03.12. Post quake, Pegasus Bay Fishing, business as usual, London St
08.03.12. Quake survivor housing, London St. Mt Pleasant backdrop
Dublin St: Many collapsed retaining walls, propped with concrete blocks, wood & steel bracing.
More than a year post Feb 22 Killer Quake, owners of damaged bldgs & retaining walls, all over Lyttelton & Christchurch, still awaited repairs, due to slow EQC & insurance payouts & slower Fletcher builders.
Port Hills $500 000 bouncing rocks study: CERA's geologists & scientists in hard hats & Hi-Vis vests, checked Port Hills, jabbering about mapping rocks & computer modelling Port Hills' bouncing rocks to be done by Milan varsity. (One News, 09.03.12 & Weekend Press 10-11.03.12). Meanwhile, Port Hills white zoners waited more than a year post Feb 22 Killer Quake for land zoning. CERA boss Sutton endorsed the bouncing rocks study, while white zoners waited for land zoning, June deadline.
Media puffery about EQC, insurers & Fletcher working hard, did not match evidence of 1 000s of unrepaired, retaining walls, garden walls & broken bldgs in Lyttelton & Christchurch. When I read CERA media releases on CERA website, all that media, like The Press, did was copy CERA media releases as news. CERA thus controlled the media quake narrative.
14 months before, I'd seen a collapsed retaining wall in Oxford St, neatly tarped. It was still collapsed & tarped, the tarp half blown off. There were many tarped, retaining walls in Lyttelton & tarped bldgs. How long would they stay tarped & braced?
Boarded windows, walls: like in Christchurch, yellow boards had weathered grey, after months of weathering.
So far, Lyttelton's so-called rebuild was a microcosm of Christchurch's: Many demolitions & patch repairs, few permanent repairs, few rebuilds.
If bldg owners were paid out pronto by EQC & insurers & owners selected their own builders, instead of waiting for sluggish Fletcher, permanent repairs & rebuilds would go faster. Groomed by NZ's welfare state, bldg owners meekly waited for bureaucratic EQC, insurers, CERA, Fletcher.
08.03.12. Post quake, tarped business, London St / Dublin St
08.03.12. Quake collapsed, steel mesh fence cordoned, retaining wall, London St / Dublin St
08.03.12. Quake collapsed, concrete-block repaired, retaining wall, London St / Dublin St
08.03.12. Quake slumped roadside & pavement, steel mesh fence cordoned, patch repaired, Dublin St
08.03.12. Lyttelton Club by quake slumped road & quake collapsed, retaining wall, steel mesh fence cordoned, Dublin St
08.03.12. Quake slumped Dublin St, patch repaired pavement, steel mesh fence cordoned
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordon. Garage by quake slumped pavement, Dublin St
08.03.12. Steel mesh fence cordoned bldg by quake slumped pavement, Dublin St
08.03.12. Patch repaired bldgs by quake slumped pavement, Dublin St
08.03.12. Dublin St view, Lyttelton Harbour, Banks Peninsula left, Quail Island right
08.03.12. Dublin St, 2 quake collapsed, retaining walls, steel mesh fence cordoned, tarped
08.03.12. Winchester St, N view, quake collapsed, retaining walls, part repaired. Port Hills backdrop
08.03.12. Quake survivor housing seen from Winchester St
08.03.12. Fletcher builder sign, Winchester St
08.03.12. Post quake, dangerous church bldg, boarded windows, Winchester St
08.03.12. Post quake, Winchester St, S view
Heathcote Valley: Drove back to Christchurch via Lyttelton Tunnel. Heathcote Valley side, NZ Transport Agency ghost: front entrance, trashed. Sept 4, Darfield Quake collapsed, Castle Rock loomed above. Gondola Station, closed. NZ Transport Agency ghost would be demolished, 2013.
Nearby, workmen in orange, Hi-Vis vests excavated pipes at the bottom of Bridle Path. The Maltworks silos in Heathcote Valley were gone, demolished. Several orange diggers, parked by a rubble pile.
08.03.12. Quake trashed, NZ Transport Agency bldg, nr Lyttelton Tunnel, Heathcote Valley side. Front entrance shielded by shipping containers, due to Port Hills rock fall danger. NZ Transport Agency bldg would be demolished, 2013
08.03.12. Back of quake trashed, NZ Transport Agency bldg, nr Lyttelton Tunnel, Heathcote Valley side. NZ Transport Agency bldg would be demolished, 2013
08.03.12. Sept 4, 2010 quake collapsed Castle Rock, above NZ Transport Agency bldg, nr Lyttelton Tunnel, Heathcote Valley side. NZ Transport Agency bldg would be demolished, 2013
08.03.12. GONDOLA CLOSED. Orange, plastic, tape cordon. Post quake, abandoned Gondola Station, nr Lyttelton Tunnel, Heathcote Valley
*Trekked Dublin St, Winchester St, Canterbury St, London St, Sumner Rd, Oxford St, Gladstone Quay, Norwich Quay, Lyttelton Tunnel Rd. 170 images.
Coda:
CERA reported on SCIRT repairs to Lyttelton retaining walls:
"Many of the town's publicly owned retaining walls support roads and underground infrastructure. They also have significant heritage value. [CERA had no qualms about demolishing heritage bldgs in Christchurch, like Cranmer Court, despite public protests]. Walls connected to essential services and water supply or those which have a risk of failure that could cause public safety or access issues are being rebuilt first." (Greater Christchurch Recovery Update, Issue 16, December 2012).
Tues 22.01.13. Drove to Lyttelton, but I couldn't buy petrol there. A local said Lyttelton residents bought petrol in Christchurch. Two years post 22.02.11 Killer Quake, no garages sold petrol in Lyttelton, despite Lyttelton port having an oil storage farm with large storage tanks! What were fossil fuel companies playing at?
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
See CERA scientists agog at studies... (The Press / Stuff Co).
See Repairs to reopen Sumner Road to get underway (NZTA).
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