For Heritage Magazine, a look at my home town just after the devastating 2011 earthquakes.
Three weeks after the February 22nd quake and Lyttelton – the town at the epicentre - is still awash with rubble. Red volcanic stone walls, built over a century ago by hard labour gangs, have crumbled onto the streets and footpaths. The commercial zone of Norwich Quay is virtually uninhabited. One of the most-captured images of the town is a Norwich Quay café – it’s façade completely collapsed, a Subaru Legacy completely flattened under the bricks and the first floor sitting rooms laid bare and exposed like a doll’s house. Down Norwich Quay and up around the corner onto Oxford Street are red stickers – too many to count. Steel fences barely contain the rubble.
Three weeks after the February 22nd quake and Lyttelton – the town at the epicentre - is still awash with rubble. Red volcanic stone walls, built over a century ago by hard labour gangs, have crumbled onto the streets and footpaths. The commercial zone of Norwich Quay is virtually uninhabited. One of the most-captured images of the town is a Norwich Quay café – it’s façade completely collapsed, a Subaru Legacy completely flattened under the bricks and the first floor sitting rooms laid bare and exposed like a doll’s house. Down Norwich Quay and up around the corner onto Oxford Street are red stickers – too many to count. Steel fences barely contain the rubble.
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