Traffic on Gloucester Street is one way, east to west, but it’s possible to walk the other way and catch new glimpses of what’s happening behind the cordon.
“On Gloucester Street there’s lots to see
of the forbidden C.B.D.”
Glimpses on Gloucester
3 July 2012 by realruth
We did Gloucester St yesterday – I take my parents round as they are too scared to drive it alone at their age and I am on holiday so thought Monday might be quieter than a weekend. …. between that and Durham St it was very sobering.
That little pile of rubble at the end of Chancery Lane seemed particularly poignant to me – many memories, the fact the library seems so normal and the rubble speaks volumes about the real situation… who knows. Maybe it was just uncleared and everywhere else seems so sanitised.
Good to see New Regent St being repaired, and the Isaac Royal. Loved the new Press area too and the Madras St Bulls!
Some positives to be found –
and of course afternoon tea at Ballantynes
It’s so sad to see these deconstructions.
Fiona, I found the Chancery Lane rubble poignant too.
I just long to see the end of the deconstruction and some positive reconstruction.
Your photo montage brings home the extent of the work that is required to make the city safer. It is very, very sobering.
We thought of you all as we shook, rocked and rolled last night in that 7 magnitude earthquake.
I slept through last night’s earthquake, but when I heard about this morning I thought of friends in Taranaki and lower North Island, knowing how scary that rock and rolling can be.