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This view looks north up Regent Street, with Beak Street on the right and Burlington Street on the left.

To the right of the picture, the present-day clock tower, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1926, is yet to be added.

It was Jenyns, in fact, who gave up his place on the Beagle to allow Darwin to go instead.

It was only after 1902 that a message could also be added.

Further names of Aylesbury men who died for their country had to be added after World War II.

In the 1890s rebuilding involved the demolition of the south side of the nave so that a south aisle could be added.

The steps were never heard again after an Elizabethan house was bombed out and a workman found a string of beads.

Will's punishment was to be added to the press gang quota.

The inner arch contains 40 beak heads, possibly suggesting the 40 days and nights of Christ's wilderness fast.

The quagmire became so impassable that a new wooden roadway had to be added.

The country was gripped by news from the Boer War, and the public reaction to the news caused a new word to be added to the vocabulary, to 'maffick', or celebrate wildly.

The names of the 27 people who were killed in the 1941 bombing raid are about to be added to the memorial.

Russell House, with the lamp, and Royston House are probably pre-Civil War, but were re-faced by Beales in 1887.

They would try to peddle such things as rock, drinks, postcards, paper windmills, shells, beads and flowers.

It had to be an opening bridge to allow the passage of shipping up the channel to some of the docks.

Here the huntsman and his pack of beagles pass Manor Cottage and School Cottage with the main body of the hunt behind them: and at this time, there was not a sign of a hunt saboteur.

He discovered 'Baily's beads' – gaseous particles in the sun's corona.

Benjamin Beale, a local glovemaker and a Quaker, invented the bathing machine in 1751 to conserve ladies' modesty while they took a dip in the briny.

There was a time when Rye was considered important enough for it to be added to the original Cinque Ports along with Winchelsea.

In 1894 the Gas Committee of the Improvement Commissioners debated the introduction of electricity to supplement the gas supply, but it was 1932 before public electricity was to be added to the

In 1894 the Gas Committee of the Improvement Commissioners debated the introduction of electricity to supplement the gas supply, but it was 1932 before public electricity was to be added to

The original bathing machines had a canvas hood perfected by local bather Benjamin Beale in 1753, which, in the absence of any bathing costumes, protected the bather's modesty.