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Famagusta – A Town in Hostage. The Unseen Images
Unlike other parts of occupied Cyprus, the town of Famagusta was sealed off by the Turkish army immediately after being captured and no one was allowed to enter that part of the town – not even journalists. The term “ghost town” was coined later by Swedish journalist Jan-Olof Bengtsson, who visited the Swedish UN battalion in Famagusta port and saw the sealed off part of the town from the battalion’s observation post.
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BBC News – Angola’s Chinese-built ghost town
The ghost towns of China, Ireland and Spain – full of large empty house estates – may be a phenomenon that is on its way to Africa.
Built for people who never move in, they leave those who did with a worthless property they cannot sell.
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These articles on ghost towns are really interesting. I love exploring places like these because they have a real aura of mystery to them. I reckon there are a few places near to us that are turning into modern ghost towns – there are many blocks of flats in Manchester that were constructed before the recession that don’t seem to have many inhabitants. As well as this, there are some incomplete structures like Sarah Point in Ancoats and the canalside development in Droylsden, which appear to have run out of cash halfway through the build. And let’s not forget the subject of one of your previous posts, the abandoned streets in Clayton which were earmarked for demolition as part of the Pathfinder scheme, but this never happened. It’s really interesting to walk round this abandoned suburb, but it’s also rather sad to see a part of Manchester that has had the soul ripped out of it.