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Maclaren-Ross (left) with his friend and landlord, C.K. Jaeger, c.1940. (© Nick and Karel Jaeger)
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Maclaren-Ross's birthplace: 15 Whitworth Road, South Norwood, London. (© Paul Willetts)
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The Promenade des Anglais, Nice, c.1920. During his teens, Maclaren-Ross lived with his parents in Nice.
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La Canabiere, Marseilles, c.1925. As a child, Maclaren-Ross briefly lived in the city with his parents.
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Maclaren-Ross friend, C.K. Jaeger, seen her in old age. Jaeger is posing with Maclaren-Ross's cane. (© the Estate of Roger Dobson)
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The Promenade des Anglais, Nice, c.1930. During his teens, Maclaren-Ross lived with his parents in Nice.
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Cartoon version of Maclaren-Ross as a badger. It appeared in the 1940s children's book, News From The Lesser Burrows. (© the Estate of Noel Sircar)
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Monica Foster, Maclaren-Ross's girlfriend from 1943 until 1948. The two of them spent many hours together in the Wheatsheaf pub in Rathbone Place, London. (© the Estate of Sheila Cutforth)
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The Promenade des Anglais, Nice, c.1925. During his teens, Maclaren-Ross lived with his parents in Nice.
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Monica Foster, Maclaren-Ross's girlfriend from 1943 until 1948. The two of them spent many hours together in the Wheatsheaf pub in Rathbone Place, London. (© the Estate of Sheila Cutforth)
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The novelist and screenwriter, Philip Lindsay (left). Alongside Dylan Thomas, he was a wartime colleague of Maclaren-Ross's at Strand Films, a prominent documentary film company, based in Golden Square, Soho. The picture was taken in Regent's Park during the 1930s. (© the Estate of Cressida Lindsay)
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Maclaren-Ross's sister, Carol, and the man with whom she eloped. (© Judith Bourne)
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