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Autum has arrived

Cambridge Terrace . Band Rotunda on the Avon..and an other legacy by Thomas Edmonds. now the Edmonds Restaurant...offers great brekki

 

the River rises from springs in the western suburbs, winds through the City and enters the estuary at the north eastern suburbs.

the Maori name for the Avon is Otakaro but was later named after the Avon River in Ayrshire, home of the Deans Brothers.

 

pretty much damaged by the Earthquake in Sept 2010 and Febr 2011

all is still cordoned off and we have not being able to see for ourselves..the Pyne Gould Building behind the Rotunda has been totally destroyed, 12 people lost their life

 

www.stuff.co.nz/4689353/Christchurch-quake-Eyewitness-acc...

 

 

www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-20...

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