They are frozen in time, like this once vibrant club itself.

In his own devastated city, only 40,000 remain from a once vibrant community of 160,000.

The city's once vibrant street life, which survived for most of the four-year conflict, has been wiped out.

But down the years the big workplaces closed and this once vibrant town shrivelled economically.

Though there were still buildings and radar towers present only three commissionaires remained to guard the once vibrant base.