From 1833 to its demolition in the mid 1980s, the Salisbury Gas Light & Coke Company, who ran the city's gasworks were one of the major employers in the area. The company was formed in 1832 with a share capital of £ 8, 000, and its first chairman was The 3rd Earl of Radnor The company was incorporated by a private Act of Parliament in 1864, and the Gas Orders Confirmation Act 1882 empowered the company to raise capital of up to £ 40, 000.

The recent construction of Federation Square, which involved the demolition of a pair of adjacent highrise buildings, the Gas and Fuel Buildings, has improved the cathedral's visibility from the south.

" The last residents of the Gas House district, the Delman family, moved out in May 1946, allowing demolition to be completed shortly thereafter.

On July 23 the heaviest fighting ensued in the city centre and the northern district, where the Poles were able to capture only the Gas Works, preventing their demolition by the German troops.

It was originally Number 13, but was partially re-built and re-numbered following the demolition of Number 14 in 1876.

Two demolition workers were killed instantly.

His replacement John Benson led the squad that he inherited from Mathias to a commanding position at the top of Division Two in his first six months, including the demolition of local rivals Preston North End 4 – 1 away, only to collapse in the second half of the season.

Two weeks later a public " wrecking ball ceremony " attended by some of the athletes who made the building famous such as Hockey Hall of Famers Bernie Parent and Bob Clarke of the Flyers and Hall of Famer Julius Erving of the 76ers, was held in the adjacent parking lot " H " on November 23, 2010 to formally begin its external demolition.

Two days later, Minister Avni Başman telegraphed the Van governor and ordered to stop the demolition permanently.

Two small buildings from the station frontage were used as shops until their demolition in August 2003.

Two of the spans collapsed during stress testing in 1970 and demolition was proposed, but local fund raising and heritage grants allowed the pier to be dismantled for restoration and reassembled.

Two buildings with 8 apartments have been held back from demolition to accommodate the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity-organizations offering mentoring and educational outreach programs to the youth in the community.

Some buses meet a destructive end by being entered in banger races or at demolition derbys.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

According to him, over time, three different theories have emerged: ( a ) Campbell ordered the demolition on his own authority ( b ) under instructions from the British Government ( c ) upon request of Spanish General Castaños, who was at the time in Cádiz.

While listing the Coral Court Motel near St. Louis, Missouri, on the National Register of Historic Places failed to prevent a 1995 demolition, one of the cabins survives as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Transportation after being painstakingly dismantled by volunteers for relocation.

ABC used the demolition site of the former St. Joseph Hospital located at Linwood Boulevard and Prospect Avenue in an inner-city neighborhood in Kansas City as the set.

After being purchased by the neighbouring school it passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 ( a rare occurrence, as Le Corbusier was still living at the time ).

Wearing swim suits, fins, and dive masks on combat operations, these " Naked Warriors " saw action across the Pacific in every major amphibious landing including: Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Angaur, Ulithi, Peleliu, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Zambales, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Labuan, Brunei Bay, and on 4 July 1945 at Balikpapan on Borneo, which was the last UDT demolition operation of the war.

Other buildings whose demolition was seen as scandalous either already at the time of action or proved to be so in later years include The Nobel House ( subject to the very first photograph ever taken in Finland ) and the building of Old Hotel Börs ( almost directly opposite to Hotel Phoenix, Old Hotel Börs was built in jugendstil in 1909 by Frithiof Strandel ).

The John Tigard House, constructed by the son of Wilson M. Tigard in 1880 at the corner of SW Pacific Hwy and SW Gaarde St, remains, having been saved from demolition in the 1970s by the Tigard Area Historical and Preservation Association.

Moreover, the forts at Douaumont and Vaux had been designated for destruction, and demolition charges had already been placed when the German assault began on 24 February.

This required the creation of fish passes on some weirs such as on the Dock feeder weir and the demolition of others such as at Corlannau weir.

Among these are the demolition of Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri and a major alteration to the vacant Gallery of Modern Art building at 2 Columbus Circle in New York City.

A Long Island, New York couple purchased this home in early March 2009 for just $ 1 to save it from demolition, paying at least $ 100, 000 to move it on a barge to Glen Cove, Long Island.

However, Gen. Horrocks ' XXX Corps ground force's advance was delayed by the demolition of a bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal, as well as an extremely overstretched supply line, at Son, delaying the capture of the main road bridge over the Meuse until 20 September.

One of their first targets was Sir John Flowerdew, a lawyer and landowner at Hethersett who was unpopular for his role as overseer of the demolition of Wymondham Abbey ( part of which was the parish church ) during the dissolution of the monasteries and for enclosing land.

Their scintillating 5 – 0 demolition of Real Madrid in the semi-final second leg came at a cost, as Gullit suffered an injury and required surgery to be fit in time for the final.

Parallelly to the ongoing sand flushing, the deliberate demolition of groynes has begun amid great effort at certain beach sections where they were proven largely ineffective.

Lee then began the systematic demolition for building material to improve Lee Hall at Sopwell.

Explosive demolition began at the headworks of missile complex 570-7 on 30 November 1983.

In 2009 the majority of the village was under threat of demolition owing to the planned expansion of London Heathrow Airport, which would have created a third runway at the airport.

Some redevelopment has begun at the Riverside end of Woolwich already, with the June 2008 demolition of the derelict Crown and Cushion pub ( the last remnant of the " old " riverside ) next to the Waterfront leisure centre, and the completion of a residential block on the site of the old Union Tavern, next to Riverside House.

Certain facilities had started to move at the end of the 2005 / 6 academic year when the site was sold to a private developer ( with an agreement that the University could still use the site until 2008 ), and a brief period of demolition work was carried out in early 2007.

Serling was wounded and three comrades were killed by shrapnel from rounds fired at his roving demolition team by an anti-aircraft gun.

The airport's main terminal is currently undergoing major renovations at Concourse A and B, including new customs facilities, demolition and construction of a new bus terminal, and other exterior renovations.

2012 began the demolition of the Indian Mall to prepare for Shoppes at Caraland.

The area near Hamilton West railway station and Peacock Cross has changed with the demolition of Hamilton Academical Football Club's original Douglas Park stadium in 1994.

In Cameroon, a red " X " placed on illegally constructed buildings scheduled for demolition is occasionally referred to as a " St Andrew's Cross ".

This plan had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council ( GLC ) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale. Due to the huge construction costs and widespread public opposition, most of the scheme was cancelled in 1973 and the Westway, the West Cross Route and East Cross Route in east London were the only significant parts to be built.

This was prevented from taking place when some of the members of the corporation purchased several houses on the north side of the Cross in order to widen that part of the street by their demolition.

The street was once considered an unfashionable and unattractive end of town, but with the construction of Melbourne Docklands, Southern Cross Station and a shopping complex ( formerly DFO ), and demolition of eyesores such as the power station, several high rise apartment buildings have been built since the late 1990s.

Eventually linking with both the old council estate of Beighton and the new estate of Halfway, the estates house a condensed significant number of almost wholly local authority owned properties following the phasing down and demolition of the original estates around Parson Cross and Shiregreen in the north of the City.

The statues were brought down from the building after nearly a hundred years on 12 July 1977 in order to protect them from demolition work taking place at the nearby Gorbals Cross.