Many years after the fighting ceased, the building has become a popular site for underground dance parties.
This, in turn, ceased with the building of the huge Becontree Estate housing development by the London County Council in the 1920s and the associated large-scale influx of new industries.
This multiplicity, together with our loose talk, accounts for the unclarity in when the building ceases to exist.
We are unclear about when the building ceases to exist because our use of language just doesn't determine which of these many four-dimensional objects is 'the building'.
Charity to the poor had ceased, the monastic buildings were dilapidated, and the monks were forced to beg for their needs.
Other details, like the fireplaces, are newer, added after the building ceased to be a school in the 1930s.
The mine ceased work in 1987; the building itself was completed in 1924, a handsome example of art deco industrial architecture.The smell in the corridor, says the artist Oswaldo Maciá, who worked with perfumer Ricardo Moya, is meant to evoke failure.
Due to financial resources being diverted to the education of Catholic children, work on the building ceased at this point and the Lady chapel – now named Our Lady Immaculate – served as parish church to the local Catholic population until its demolition in the 1980s.
They, in turn, persuaded the Landmarks Preservation Commission to move the lobby to the top of its agenda before the Postal Service ceases operations there and sells the building, as it intends to do.
When it ceased to operate in 1972, the building was demolished, but the beam pump, which was located beneath the building, was rescued and has been restored.
