Ruth Belville

Ruth Belville
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Download or read book Ruth Belville written by David Rooney and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Belville family, who from 1836 to 1940 ran a business delivering time to London subscribers by way of an eighteenth-century pocket watch called 'Arnold'.


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