Most of the immigrants had given up and left with the ruins of their once prosperous lives.

Most of the buildings in this once prosperous town have been lost to the sea and the elements.

The transition to wine service centre from a once prosperous mining town has been a long and at times difficult process.

This left hundreds unemployed and the once prosperous town of Star began to wither away.

Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month, more than half were from the once prosperous region.

He eventually turned the once prosperous country into a dark and barren wasteland.

The 1930s brought another blow to the once prosperous village.

The once prosperous area was now in the realms of a very poor environment.

Zimbabwe is a beautiful and once prosperous country with the potential to be the bread basket for the region.

Reconstruction played out against a backdrop of a once prosperous economy in ruins.