As the journalist Carey McWilliams described the scene, "The roadside signs tell the story of the city's improvised economy: canary farms, artificial pools for trout fishing, rabbit fryers, dogs at stud, grass-shack eating huts, psychic mediums, real-estate offices, filling stations, vacant-lot circuses".
Today, the lot above the station is vacant except for an old control house that served as a subway entrance more than 30 years ago.
Blake first began thinking about Under Milk Wood in the 1970s when he tired of London and, with his then wife, Jann Haworth, moved to a railway station made vacant by Dr Beeching's cuts, at Wellow, near Bath.
Most of the art, however, has been in place since late 2002, although at vacant stations.
The luxurious railway station was largely vacant by the 1970s owing to the decline in train travel.
To make the most efficient use of its carrier vehicle's capacity, a space station is launched vacant, and its crew members—and sometimes additional equipment follow in separate vehicles.
She had been complaining about it ever since the police station was a vacant lot, with a Montefiore methadone clinic operating out of an empty synagogue at one end, and an accumulation of weeds, and garbage piled up everywhere.
The Grade II*-listed Battersea Power Station has been vacant since being decommissioned in 1983 but work is under way to redevelop the area, including the 1933 structure.
The map outside the DLR station describes the vacant area that will house ABP as "Royals Business Park".
The TfL map outside the DLR station describes the vacant area that will house ABP as "Royals Business Park".
