The world’s only photograph of the toy bear that inspired AA Milne’s creation of Winnie the Pooh – taken circa 1913 – has been uncovered in a family archive and shows illustrator E.H. Shepard’s young son Graham and his daughter Mary alongside a teddy bear called Growler, which inspired the much-loved fictional bearĀ 

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