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Providing a mixture of both residential and commercial property, Peabody Road was still enough part of the shopping centre to be able to boast Curzon and Son's betting shop, Tottles' newsagents, the

The port was able to send twenty ships to Calais in 1347, thanks to the financial success of the wool trade, but its privileges were curtailed by Henry VIII in favour of Poole, and the

Today, beside the war memorial, there is a captured German submarine gun; this was presented to Chepstow to commemorate the bravery of Able Seaman William Charles Williams, who was awarded the Victoria

They were able to occupy the house again in 1975.

narrow passage leading down to St Mary's Street was home in 1900 to a fishmonger and hairdresser, as well as the Hole in the Wall Inn, previously the Coach and Horses (although it is hard to imagine being able

The old rogue lived to a respectable, though gout-ridden, old age, writing his memoirs and receiving a small pension from the respect- able local worthy Lord Rolle, who admired the wily Jack's

However, if they were able-bodied they had to do menial tasks to earn their keep.

Although expected to be able to withstand the elements on this exposed stretch of coast, it was badly damaged by gales in the winter of 1900, and was finally dismantled by Bournemouth

Perhaps some can just remember the time of this photograph, of being able to sit in a quiet, fairly plain bar with a glass of cold beer, with no machines, and no music.

This view from the water meadows is a very well known one, and relatively little changed today, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller – he or she would be able to see fourteen

Until 1948 divers had only been able to reach and explore Chamber 9.

They were also able to wave to passers-by.

The owners claimed to be able to seat two and a half thousand people in the marquees and refreshment rooms.

The King's forces at Worcester was thereby robbed of its most able field officer.

When sailing wherry you had to be able to sail very close to the wind, for the narrow waterways allowed no extravagant tacking manoeuvres.

There were two ferries operating across the river here to Stourbridge Common, the larger of the two able to take a horse and cart.

Recaptured by the English in 1407, it fell again to Glyndwr in 1408, but he was only able to hold on to it for a few months before it was once again in English hands.

The challenge was met by new boarding houses, tall and each able to take in several families.

If we count four awnings down on the same side of the road, we will just be able to make out Boots.

Stagecoaches departed from here daily for all parts of the country until the railways put an end to them.