Digital Photograph: Retaining Wall, Sumner Road, Lyttelton

Maker
Michael Davies
Production date
27 May 2013
 Description
One landscape colour digital photograph taken on 27 May 2013 of a retaining wall in Sumner Road which was replaced due to earthquake damage. The original wall was created using red volcanic rock. Many walls like this were built using the Hard Labour Gang from the Lyttelton Gaol. The replacement wall has a small section of stone installed to show what the wall used to look like. It is intended to reface the wall using stone salvaged from collapsed walls.
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Maker
Production place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Collecting unit
Pictorial
Production role
Photographer
Researcher comments/remarks
Many of Lyttelton's retaining walls sustained earthquake damage and the process of rebuilding those owned by the Christchurch City Council is being managed by the Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT). Work on the town’s retaining walls is expected to take until 2015 to complete with the replacement walls designed to withstand future earthquakes. One of the engineering features being incorporated is the use of ground anchors to tie the wall to the slope behind by drilling horizontally into the hillside then filling the hole with reinforcing and a cement grout which is then secured to the wall.
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Associated place
Lyttelton/Christchurch/Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Associated place notes
Sumner Road
Associated event
Earthquake 4 September 2010; 04 September 2010; Canterbury/South Island/New Zealand
Earthquake, 22 February 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand
Earthquake, 13 June 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand
Associated period
2013/2010s
Current rights
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
Current rights code
Creative Commons - CC BY-NC
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Other id
DSC06465
Accession number
2013.17.141

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