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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 is a real art to punting.

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.

It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as `invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of

It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as `invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of

It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as 'invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of an

In 1940 both river and marshes froze, so it was possible to walk the whole way to Acle.

Gardens such as this should also be able to offer a private area where it is possible to reflect quietly, away from public gaze, but this is often a rare luxury.

The plots are small, and to use the land to its best advantage the owners have built upwards, not quite like a modern skyscraper but daring for its time.

There are few cars other than those parked between the Cromwell statue and the war memorial, and people are able to pass the time of day in the middle of the road.

The girl crossing the square would not be able to dawdle in the way she is doing today—this is now a very busy thoroughfare.

Gardens such as this should also be able to offer a private area where it is possible to reflect quietly, away from public gaze, but this is often a rare luxury.

Next to the Square's war memorial (out of view) stands a captured gun from a German First World War submarine, which was presented to Chepstow in recognition of the bravery of Able Seaman Williams VC,

Holyhead has seen a decline in recent years, although Swift was able to write in 1727 that it was 'scurvy, ill-provided and comfortless', so recent trends may have followed a pattern.

There is a real art to punting.

Now only small coastal steamers are able to navigate the difficult channels to reach the quayside.

This design is used because the Norfolk rivers are not powerful enough to work an overshot wheel.