Digital Photograph: Earthquake Damage to Retaining Wall, corner of Oxford and Exeter Streets, Lyttelton

Maker
Michael Davies
Production date
15 June 2011
 Description
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 15 June 2011 showing earthquake damage to the retaining wall on the northeast corner of Oxford and Exeter Streets. The wall was constructed from unreinforced blocks of local red volcanic rock held together with mortar.
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Maker
Production place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Collecting unit
Pictorial
Production role
Photographer
Researcher comments/remarks
Retaining walls in Lyttelton were built of unreinforced soft volcanic stone in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Some of these were built by inmates of the Lyttelton Gaol who had been sentenced to hard labour. They were typically built as a facing to protect steep slopes or areas cut into the hillside from erosion. Like stone buildings, many stone retaining walls had little strength to resist the forces of the February and June 2011 earthquakes.
Associated place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Associated place notes
Oxford Street; Exeter Street
Associated event
Earthquake, 13 June 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand
Associated event notes
Damage caused
Associated period
2011/2010s
Current rights
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
Current rights code
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
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Other id
DSCF1024
Accession number
2013.17.84

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