The most notable of these barriers is a complicated system of land ownership, poor roads, and a derelict telecommunications network. |
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Off to one side was a gray, derelict, ramshackle house that looked ready to fall down. |
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Firefighters dealt with a fire in a derelict refrigeration unit early today. |
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Council machinery will clear and level the derelict overgrown area so that landscaping can start. |
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The property was derelict, and the cows, mostly rejects from other herds, were no respecters of finely-nuanced sophistry. |
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He said the Department of Environment had first to approve these designations before the Council can levy the owners of derelict sites. |
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For 170 years Ballina's Augustinian Abbey has lain derelict and inconspicuous at the bottom of Ardnaree near St Muredach's Cathedral. |
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Plastic toys, cigarette lighters, and derelict fishing gear smother the coral reefs and litter the island shores. |
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But when I apply pressure nothing comes out and the flames grow even more ferocious, enveloping the room in what might be a derelict tenement. |
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The house at 549 Lordship Lane, now an important listed building, is in a derelict state. |
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After being made redundant, she slept rough for a few nights in a derelict building and was unlucky enough to be caught in a heavy frost. |
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Money for the estate and a derelict manor house will come from the Millennium Fund, the EU and direct government funds. |
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At the disruption they were obliged to move from the manse to a derelict cottage, to enable them to stay in the parish. |
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The grant will allow the council to begin filling in the South Bay Pool, demolishing derelict buildings and terracing the slopes. |
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If fields, houses, gates, fences, derelict houses are untidy, then we lose marks. |
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We turned right and, sure enough, the road was blocked and the car park boarded off and derelict. |
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But in Byrom Street, Blackburn town centre, near to the old St Wilfrid's school building, the gable end of a derelict church was blown down. |
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It was now extremely dark as the towering, derelict offices clouded away the sky. |
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Long grass on each side of the street, a derelict and neglected building bereft of glass and doors. |
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The shutters of derelict buildings creaked and groaned like mall nourished prisoners in cages as he passed them. |
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There is an attractive new orchid known as Young's Helleborine found growing among the scrub on derelict pit bings. |
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At the moment, the development site is a derelict chunk of land next to the river and close to Manchester city centre. |
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The number of tumbledown cottages and derelict properties for sale is going down and building costs are going up. |
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Fix up derelict houses and build affordable homes to the extent there is no shortage and prices will stabilise. Simples. |
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Dylan and his black buddy, united by motherlessness, inherit a powerful ring from a local derelict. |
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Who wants to hit rock bottom, derelict, skid row, with no friend or family or home? |
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Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict. |
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There were also, of course, slag heaps and derelict land, palls of smoke, and polluted rivers. |
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In this play, the set also represents the urban slag heap of life, derelict it would seem except that it's not derelict. |
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Stevenson says he's been collecting things for more than 70 years, including pieces of derelict vehicles found under boxthorn hedges. |
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The yards are full of derelict cars, broken-down furniture, sofas with the stuffing bursting out. |
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The derelict building is to be flattened and replaced with a open space and children's play park in the short term scheme. |
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We found a place in Coalcliff, just past Stanwell Park, a derelict house to squat in. |
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The third requested the Council to offer incentives to owners of derelict homes to help make the buildings habitable. |
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Its few leaves curve over its pencil-thin stem like a derelict, half-open umbrella. |
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When businessman Bill Reidy ploughed his savings into renovating a derelict 17th Century hall he believed he had created his dream home. |
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Villagers south of York are fighting plans to knock down a derelict health centre and build three new houses in its stead. |
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Once, as the derelict caravanserais that litter the landscape mutely testify, the Silk Route ran through the Mazandaran. |
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At present, a series of derelict agricultural buildings and concrete hardstanding represent an eyesore in an otherwise picturesque setting. |
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The castellated house, which has been derelict since the 1920s, is widely known for its hauntings. |
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Police forced the Orangemen to march through a derelict industrial site to their Orange lodge, which overlooks the road. |
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We have been left a legacy of ugly, vacant and derelict land and also a hefty financial burden to clean it up. |
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Vancouver's derelict and decayed industrial edifices have often served as a source of inspiration for local artists. |
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The real eyesore was the derelict building we took over, which was covered in vandalism. |
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The factory was bulldozed some years ago and the land is currently overgrown and derelict. |
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Set in three-quarters of an acre, derelict Lambs Barton Stables nestle amid landscaped gardens in a hollow of land with sea views. |
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They are reseeding derelict native oyster beds with juvenile pacific oysters. |
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As well as producing more affordable homes and tackling homelessness, the strategy aims to bring privately-owned derelict homes back into use. |
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Their peace of mind has been shattered by young hooligans who use the derelict estate as their playground. |
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Evidence of derelict buildings being refurbished at council expense are a sure sign of the nature of the trust. |
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Audiences in Bombay's derelict Art-Deco cinema halls often hoot and whistle when their hero vanquishes a villain. |
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I was kept on a derelict hulk on the Thames, and no-one told me how long it would be before I was moved on. |
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With old stone collected from derelict cottages on the edge of the village they built a circular garden. |
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Business leaders have welcomed plans to transform a patch of derelict land into an eco-friendly town centre business park. |
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I agree and this seems particularly true of a city like Detroit where derelict buildings stand beside a host of faceless skyscrapers. |
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The scheme will accommodate 1,500 people in 650 high-quality, family-sized apartments on a former derelict warehouse site. |
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Even the corporate media, for all its fawning cowardice, hasn't been as derelict as blog rhetoric would paint it. |
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One pier is vibrant with candyfloss, arcades and people, the other stands derelict and rusty. |
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Once Crowe Farm had been a thriving piggery but the buildings had become derelict. |
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A Burnley resident is living in fear of her house going up in smoke after firebugs targeted neighbouring derelict properties. |
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We hike down a surprisingly gentle trail, passing through stunted pinons to a Ponderosa coppice and a fetchingly derelict bridge at river's edge. |
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The idea is that there are huge derelict spacecraft floating about that are infested with nasty aliens. |
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Piccadilly House, thought to have been last used as an electrical goods shop, has been derelict for some time, and is covered in fly-posters. |
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The Conigre development transformed a formerly derelict area of the town into new homes. |
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Pressure on Sligo's ever increasing housing list could be eased if more derelict houses were repaired, refurbished and re-allocated. |
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Chemicals, glassware and apparatus used in the process of making amphetamine were found in a search of two derelict vehicles. |
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Litter-strewn streets, graffiti and derelict buildings demean residents' quality of life and devalue the visitor experience. |
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The big question everyone in town is asking, when are they going to start work on demolishing the derelict buildings? |
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Between those dates the appeal site had been in an apparently derelict condition with 2 large black doors facing the street. |
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The derelict mansion was a block from the address where they had told Scott to meet. |
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However it remained unoccupied for a number of years and had fallen into a derelict state. |
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The derelict condition of the Market House has been criticised by the town council. |
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Following a few weeks of begging on the streets and sleeping in derelict buildings, he falls in with a friendly group of squatters. |
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The majority of them were bought either in completely derelict condition, or as a collection of rusty parts. |
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In 1996, a huge residential community was envisaged in the derelict area, with the aim of housing local poor residents. |
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Conditions at the hotel were so derelict the coach lamented it was the worst he had ever seen. |
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A call has been made to officials of the Town Council to take action against the owners of five houses which are in a derelict condition. |
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The ground floor of the derelict building was pretty much bare of anything other than broken junk and graffiti. |
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What other cause finds you derelict in your responsibilities to your own people? |
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In my view he would be derelict in his duty if he didn't have a contingency plan. |
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Further, any judge who allows a conviction to stand when it's evident the defendant did not commit a crime is derelict in his duty. |
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The family could not believe that the body was considered to be that of a derelict at the funeral home. |
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Ultimately, Billy is said to have become a derelict, presumably because he was unable to work in the cattle industry again. |
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Society, it transpires, hasn't turned him into a derelict, he's managed that all by himself. |
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Even if your slate's totally clean, people are apt to lose trust in you because you're dating such a derelict. |
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Vale watched helplessly as a series of explosions reduced the once-proud cruiser to a blackened derelict. |
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We ran into the docking bay and could not believe the decrepit derelict of a ship that he had waiting for us. |
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He circled the shattered derelict once more and finally settled his craft down in an open spot. |
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With a secure airlock established between the two ships, the Scout transferred over to the derelict. |
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In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso. |
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You wouldn't believe the bureaucratic hoops you need successfully to jump when you're renovating a derelict. |
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Diaz maneuvered the tug underneath the cruiser and traversed the length until they were ahead of the derelict. |
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One of Gene's hobbies is buying old derelict cameras and developing any exposed film that comes with them. |
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When I went to view the show, all I encountered was a purposefully composed, near derelict space. |
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The house faces the river while the stable block, which is derelict, as well as an orchard, garden and gravelled area are at the back. |
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They wanted to shoot a car chase in a rundown alley but could not find anywhere sufficiently grimy and derelict. |
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When the guild took on the project the lodge was in a terrible state of disrepair and was almost derelict. |
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The derelict wasteland that was the Dublin docklands was transformed into a recognisable city landscape of glass-fronted multi-storey buildings. |
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Thanks to the effort of local people, that derelict piece of waste ground has now been transformed into a thriving urban nature park. |
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A government-planning edict has seen derelict urban wastelands transformed into residential and working communities. |
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He was also worried about the health risks of rotting, derelict whare, which became breeding grounds for rats and vermin. |
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The now derelict site, next to one of England's most treasured heritage sites, has been a blot on the landscape since the Jolly Boatman pub was demolished. |
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Statues and ritual objects made of bell and other semi-precious metals were found tossed in the basement of another derelict building known as Kong Meo, Confucian temple. |
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A derelict social club plagued by firebugs could soon be demolished. |
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Residents fed up with youths hanging around the streets, derelict shops and a general sense of neglect have taken their future into their own hands. |
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My derelict caravan was a permanent fixture in their boggy field. |
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When Pawson first visited the site five years ago, it comprised a derelict Baroque manor house with ranges of agricultural buildings that framed a large courtyard. |
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Some have managed to take an interest in their land and make it productive, but many have simply reaped the standing crop and then left the land derelict. |
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He said that a new application was received by City of York Council yesterday to transform a derelict car park at the rear of the property to shopping space. |
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We stood on the rooftop of a derelict farmhouse meters away from a Turkish tank and a razor wire fence marking the end of Turkey. |
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While a massive programme of work is under way to improve the popular park for visitors and make it more secure, the paddling pool has been left to fall derelict. |
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Town Clerk Helen Dowling said the council had drawn up a list of derelict buildings and would be sending out notices to owners whose names appeared on the register. |
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It will not only record, but also highlight the true extent of empty buildings, derelict shops, empty houses, other signs of neglect and lack of important services. |
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And for us to say it's just a few renegade soldiers, listen, I know that those were the ones on the photographs, but there were others who were derelict in their duty. |
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Today many Western Isles villages are derelict as a result of war losses, including hamlets where some of my relations who made the supreme sacrifice were reared. |
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Now derelict, the stone property has planning permission to be restored as a four-bedroom home, with one bathroom, two sitting rooms, a dining room and a fitted kitchen. |
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Walking the ancient driftway through the marshes, we paused by the derelict drainage mill to watch the aerial manoeuvres of a mixed flight of golden plovers and lapwings. |
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In this derelict part of Glasgow lie empty warehouses only a stone's throw from trendy clubs and the brutalist architecture of Strathclyde University. |
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At the strategic Bagram airbase, 20 miles north of Kabul, hundreds of soldiers trucked in late over the last few days were dispersed among the derelict airport buildings. |
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On the eastern outskirts of the City of Bulawayo, on a derelict piece of land not far off the main Bulawayo-Harare Road, there stands a small squatter camp. |
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Young people on a deprived Shipley estate have been praised for rolling up their sleeves and sprucing up a derelict site to make way for a new youth club. |
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At 8pm as thick black smoke bellowed from the derelict building, police issued an urgent health warning, instructing residents to stay indoors and shut their windows. |
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This was a building that was derelict until 1997 and it is in a cemetery, not the most promising venue for lively activities, but it has gone like a bomb. |
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The fire which swept through a number of derelict buildings in Bedford, used by the homeless and drug addicts was probably arson, investigators have confirmed. |
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Images of derelict playgrounds and shabby facilities form the graffitied landscape 12-year-old Zack calls home and are the focus of his photographs. |
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The commission found that each had been derelict in his duty. |
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They are putting bags into the boots of cars and dumping them, under cover of darkness on the sides of roads, river banks or in derelict or unused areas. |
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The derelict husks of each burnt-out building cast ominous shadows onto the empty streets, where still-decaying corpses lay abandoned around every corner. |
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Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach. |
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By way of a little symbolic help, the location for their misspent youth and childhood dreams, a local tower block of derelict flats, is about to be razed to the ground. |
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The South mill complex, with its towering 225 ft tall chimney, is empty and has fallen derelict while one grandiose scheme after another hit the dust. |
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Though a mote in the dustheap of society, he is no derelict. |
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They demolished a partly built concrete structure that had sat derelict for years, after failed attempts to build a private members' club and a strata-title office building. |
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It was obviously using rolling stock left over from before unification and went through some very depressed areas with large tracts of unused land and derelict buildings. |
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Despite efforts to develop the building, the former mill has been largely derelict since 1987 although part of it has been used for denim jean manufacture. |
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Go through the derelict farm, through a sheepfold, and follow the Shalloch Burn which is crossed on a girder bridge about a quarter of a mile beyond the farm. |
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Jace sat next to Eric in the passenger seat of the red minivan, looking curiously out of the tinted windows at the increasingly derelict buildings and streets of downtown. |
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A group of youngsters are up to mischief in a local wood when they decide to go in search of a derelict house where, according to local legend, a weird old witch used to live. |
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The building was old and derelict, a suitable place for a den of thieves. |
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There is an old derelict caravan on there and it is strewn with litter. |
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Three derelict houses bordering Waterford's historic city walls have blighted the area for too long, according to a frustrated resident and city alderman. |
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Perhaps if the derelict sites had been cleared and tided before prospective investors in the proposed retail outlets viewed the site, it might have been a different story. |
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Teenage fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles lurked on bridges or in derelict areas near the main highway leading west toward the embattled town of Fallujah. |
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Dweeb travels all over the country looking for derelict factories and other sites, but hasn't done much in Coventry or Warwickshire. |
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Some of the original factory buildings in Redditch still remain, most are in a derelict state and can be seen from Hewell Road. |
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Between Bicester Village and Newton Longville the route is in place but derelict. |
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Mining of tin and copper was also an industry, but today the derelict mine workings survive only as a World Heritage Site. |
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The Palace Cinema is located next to the derelict Castle Mona hotel and is operated by the Sefton Group. |
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Numerous former jute mills remain standing and while some lay derelict, many have been converted for other uses. |
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There are numerous derelict or converted mine buildings and recently landscaped former spoil heaps. |
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Near Blaenau Ffestiniog there are miles of mountain landscape with derelict quarries, rivers, various lakes and walking routes. |
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However, recent redevelopment of derelict railway and canal land, marketed as Paddington Waterside, has resulted in new office complexes nearby. |
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Its headquarters were a currently derelict building in Cardiff Bay railway station. |
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Distribution of rations and ammunition was difficult and after the water mains were broken, water could only be taken from derelict wells. |
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Villages had been destroyed, and derelict equipment made some roads impassable. |
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Many of these are still in existence today, however are derelict and remain unopened to the public. |
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All of the locks are derelict, but the course can still be used by canoes and light craft, which can be portaged around the locks. |
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Some attempts were made to improve it in the 1920s, but the last commercial traffic used it in 1934, and it gradually became derelict after that. |
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On 9 August 2011 a fire broke out at the old Joanna's Nightclub, a derelict building opposite South Parade Pier. |
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By 1900 use of the bathing facilities was declining, and the second pier gradually became derelict. |
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The derelict dock landing area was developed into Freeport, a retail centre, and housing has been built at the north end of the marina. |
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The ABC closed in 1997 and has remained derelict, but there have been successive proposals to redevelop or demolish it. |
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The derelict station building still exists, and various redevelopment schemes have been proposed. |
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Designs indicate that the derelict Mayfield Station and the Gateway House office block will be demolished. |
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The prison remained derelict until 1851, when it was reopened for prisoners serving long sentences. |
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Dogs were also kept in makeshift wooden lean-tos, derelict cars and an outside toilet, at Harthill's home, at Goodrest Farm. |
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The mine site has been left derelict, with portable offices, a fuel storage bowser, spoil heap and even a 2ft narrow gauge railway left on it. |
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After the Second World War most of the industry closed down and became derelict. |
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There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two. |
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Two ancient, sun-withered leather sandals lie among an old ink bottle and other objects discovered during her walks through derelict villages. |
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A HOUSING developer has resubmitted plans to build on a derelict site in Fartown. |
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Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street. |
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A scottish property company which revamps derelict industrial buildings has bought an empty warehouse and production facility in Birtley. |
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The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. |
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A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. |
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In 1842 the company became bankrupt and the Government put the derelict harbour up for sale. |
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One of the Aust ferries, Severn Princess, is still in Chepstow although largely derelict. |
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He wheeled away down the narrow sandy street like the veriest derelict. |
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Delphine Gan Lee made the proposal in House Bill 5249, to be known as Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act of 2014, which seeks to govern abandoned and derelict motor vehicles. |
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The industry declined in the early 20th century, but in 1921 Morgan Giles bought the last derelict shipbuilding yard and gave the industry a new stimulus. |
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A POLICE force was accused yesterday of persecuting motorists by setting up a mobile radar trap alongside a derelict works with no houses or schools nearby. |
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Plans have been lodged to partdemolish and restore derelict buildings at 20-25 Legge Lane, once earmarked for a new food school, to be run by University College Birmingham. |
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Two other forts to the south and east were derelict or had disappeared. |
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The abbey church became derelict before being restored as the city's parish church in the Elizabethan era, when the city experienced a revival as a spa. |
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The first of these to be implemented aims to transform the derelict eastern end of the palace, making accessible the Victorian theatre and historic BBC Studios. |
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One of our bottle stores has been damaged because vandals have jumped on the roof and smashed the door, so we now have a derelict bottle store on site. |
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By finding homes in disused or even derelict buildings, micropubs can keep their overheads low and offer beer at more competitive prices than traditional rivals, Protz said. |
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Glover noted in 1829 that all three types of crossing were still in use on the Derbyshire section of the Trent, but that the fords were derelict and dangerous. |
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Through the 20th century, heavy industries in the town declined, leaving the Lower Swansea Valley filled with derelict works and mounds of waste products from them. |
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In 2009 the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority advocated reopening the neighbouring derelict Mayfield station to alleviate capacity problems at Piccadilly. |
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He felt like a toss-up between a bindle stiff and a skid row derelict. |
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He is believed to have had a station named Westham, which may have occupied a site near the derelict homestead now known as Lincoln's Farm, overlooking Point Richards. |
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In 1984 Salford City Council used a derelict land grant to purchase the docks at Salford from the Ship Canal Company, rebranding the area as Salford Quays. |
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Nearly all of these canals were constructed to serve local industries, and fell derelict when faced with competition from other modes of transport. |
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Many piers remained derelict for years until the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway reopened the downtown waterfront, allowing for redevelopment. |
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Many derelict hulks can still be found along the Yukon River. |
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This development led indirectly to some renewal of the then largely derelict Dock Street area, and improved road access to the town to support the container traffic. |
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It had been withdrawn in 1999 and stood derelict at Rigby Road depot. |
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