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A two story shop with sign '….lsmouth Street Kingsway'. between two taller buildings. Portsmouth street to the right. Lincoln’s Inn Field square in the background.

Identification kindly provided by Charles Edwards; Danielle Ottey; Edmund…

Multi-story building with colonnade along first floor. Doorway has statues either side with Australia House. Streets are lined with trees. Captioned 'From the Aldwich'.

Multi-story building with colonnade along first floor. Doorway has statues either side with Australia House. Streets are lined with trees. Captioned 'From the Strand'.

Clock tower with clock and part of Palace of Westminster on right. Captioned 'Big Ben'.

Large trees on left and right with grass area between and beyond. Several chairs in foreground and more trees in background. A man walking on right side. Captioned 'St James Park'.

Open parkland with sheep grazing. Tree on left and trees in the background. Captioned 'Kensington Gardens'.

Grass parkland with many trees, two prominent left and centre. Person sitting on a bench just right of middle. Captioned 'Hyde Park'.

Clock tower with Big Ben clock and part of the palace of Westminster with bus on the right. In the foreground a pool with reflection of tower and clock. Captioned 'Big Ben reflected in NES Water tank'.

Lachie McBean wearing battledress with pilot's brevet and peaked cap standing in front of a snow covered five bar gate. In the background trees.

On the left a man wearing battledress and peaked cap standing in snow looking out over a valley with trees. Captioned 'Overlooking the snow covered valley - Castle Combe'.

Man wearing flying boots, helmet and parachute standing with his left leg on lower port wing of a two seat, single engine bi-plane. Captioned 'Geoff Maitland, Clyffe Pypard - Wiltshire'.

Full length portrait of a man wearing battledress with pilot's brevet standing holding a bicycle to the left of a road sign for Castle Combe. Captioned 'Geoff Maitland'.

Head and shoulders portrait of Lachie McBean, wearing battledress with pilot's brevet and peaked cap standing by a wooden fence in the snow. In the background trees. Captioned 'Behind the Billets, Castle Combe'.

View along railway track with hills beyond, right and left. Trees and telegraph poles to the left. Ground is snow covered. Captioned 'Colorado River near Glenwood Springs'.

View from train over snow covered ground with fence and telegraph poles running left to right. In the distance, mountains. Smoke visible at upper right. Captioned 'Snow near Winnemucca, Nevada, USA'.

Three men standing in snow. The two on the left are wearing battledress and the one on the right a flying suit. The man in the centre has pilot's brevet. In the background a train and mountains. Captioned 'In the Rockies at entrance to the Moffat…

Lachie McBean grew up in Australia and joined the Royal Australian Air Force when he was 18. He was a pilot at a Heavy Conversion Unit when the war in Europe ended. After the war he returned to Australia and became a farmer. He also took the…