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One of his first essays was his popular 'Cats of London' (24 February 1951), a series made whilst working as a freelancer on other stories during which he would find stray cats living in the many bomb sites and back alleys. His best known photograph drew on this talent with animals. Entitled
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in graphic art and taught himself photography, his pictures being used for some of his father's books. He found employment with a publisher adding decorative frames to portraits of
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were retained in copyright by the Hulton empire; and when the magazine closed, the archive was sold to the
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on 27 October 2014, survived by wife Grace, (daughter of
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485:(PDF). Doctoral dissertation, Middlesex Polytechnic.
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