Derelict Quotes
On what gets left to rot, and who's responsible for it.
These quotes use derelict in two senses - literal ruin, like touring theatres left empty until a treasury grant saved them, and moral failure, as when research bodies are called derelict in their duty. One even recalls the shell of the Roundhouse standing empty for years.
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
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