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- 1 2 3 4 Mackay, Ralph. "Peter Brooke By Any Other Name" . Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ Howse, Christopher (2013). The Train in Spain. Bloomsbury. ISBN 1441198059.
- ↑ "Press Release: Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson". Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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