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- ↑ "Peter Wright: I May Retire". Nottingham Evening News. 26 March 1960.
- ↑ "Peter Wright Is Captain Of Blackheath". Tunbridge Wells Courier. 25 August 1961.
- ↑ "Meet The Lions". Liverpool Echo . 7 April 1962.
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