This house was abandoned following the automation of the light in 1972.

It did not matter, for the house had been long abandoned even then.

It was as if the houses were bombed out and abandoned, he thought.

The church is in ruins and many houses are abandoned.

"By the time the museum learned about it, the house had been abandoned for 40 years."

The train station was finally closed in 1994 and the old workers' houses are abandoned.

Some businesses and houses were abandoned as a result of the flood.

All but three houses - built on higher ground - had been abandoned.

From then on, in about 200 years, the house had been abandoned and affected by natural disasters.

Many houses in the town were boarded up and abandoned.