Sentence examples for derelict fort from inspiring English sources
The derelict fort, known by its nickname Fort Chumnoi, or Fort Plague, was built 200 years ago to defend St . Petersburgfrom invasion by sea, but early in the last century it became a medical research center for bubonic plague.
A low, derelict fort built by the Knights of St John commands the port and protects a plane tree supposedly planted by Hippocrates 2,400 years ago.
Decommissioned in the Fifties, it later became a private house and museum, before being bought by the owner of the Clarenco group in 2009, along with two other derelict forts.
It has been busy introducing new signage, lighting, and seafront shelters, and plans to demolish or bring back into use "eyesore" buildings such as the derelict Fort Road Hotel.
We now live in a London where upturned empty Big Mac boxes are flipped into luxury apartments and sold for millions of pounds, and yet still no one has bought this majestic - albeit pretty derelict - bomb-proof river fort.
So as early as 1979, Flavin started thinking he might do something in the derelict barracks at the edge of the fort.
The old pool at the fort closed 16 years ago and is now derelict, with campaigners having repeatedly asked for it to be reinstated.
The area, which borders the port and gets its name from a British fort established there in the 1860s, had long been home to derelict buildings, tacky tourist shops and dingy strip clubs.
A derelict housing development.
It stood derelict for years.
