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Glasgow was the last city in the UK to abandon its tramway system.

Carnforth is towards the northern end; the top section was abandoned after the M6 motorway was built.

However, it was abandoned in 1912 and finally fell down in 1944.

The Roundabout Hotel on the Delmé Roundabout used to be St Edith's Industrial Home for abandoned or orphaned girls run by the Waifs and Strays Society.

It is not certain who owned Pennard or who lived in it; there is no evidence for any 15th- or 16th-century rebuilding, so perhaps the castle was abandoned in the 14th century.

Knowing this, the occupants during the Civil War wisely abandoned the castle, so that only its walls and original gatehouse were then demolished.

This view shows the square just before the abandonment of the tramway system.

built by the Normans in the course of their early campaigns in the area, and the second a more substantial construction built by the de Clare clan, which lasted a couple of hundred years before being abandoned

It has a bad defensive position for a castle, though, so that when it was attacked during the Civil War the defenders wisely abandoned it and took refuge in the church instead.

In addition to some of the chalets having originally been used as barracks, the continued existence of abandoned gun emplacements, storage lockers and searchlights were reminders of how heavily defended

It was still in use in the early 1970s, but it was later abandoned and fell prey to vandals.

This unspoilt walled town on its hilltop site was an important port until Elizabethan times, when the sea abandoned it and its harbour silted up.

Built as Stoneyhurst Hall by Sir Richard Shireburn, the building was abandoned by the family and given to the Catholic Church; it became a school run by Jesuit Priests.

Apart from the section between Castlefields and Dale Street Basin in Manchester, the canal was abandoned in 1952, and Hollingworth Lake was finally given over to recreation and leisure activities.

However, a few months later the Archbishop of York ordered the scheme abandoned on the grounds that 'it would not be desirable to proceed for some years to come'.

In the early 19th century rebuilding began, but the project was abandoned before it was completed.

mechanisation of weaving in the early 19th century robbed the village of both its industry and population, and the hall, the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, was abandoned

On 28 September 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, landed here and occupied the long-abandoned Roman for- tress, which then occupied a promontory overlooking open sea.

Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

This revolutionary town planning project was abandoned when insufficient land could be acquired, but not before Laurie Square had been completed with Laurie Hall and these fine town mansions.