West steps

SPCAA/D/26/9/(1-10)

1965-1971

Paul (1901 - 1985) Paget, Robert Crayford, J. Whitehead & Sons Ltd., Sir Bernard Melchior (1919 - 2008) Feilden

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10 drawings

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