astronomical clock

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• Clock

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• Stream clock

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• Vase clock

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• Water clock

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• clock-bird

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• clock, settlers'

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• hawkesbury clock

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• settler's clock

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• Clock and Wheatsheaf Alley, Court

  South-west out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (Boyle, 1799). Former names : "Clockers Alley" (O....

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