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    Images of the man

    Irish dramatist and critic George Bernard Shaw as a young man, in the Museum Room at Shaw's Corner

    ©NTPL / John Hammond

    George Bernard Shaw as a young man, in the Museum Room.

    The Shaw's on their honeymoon in the Museum Room at Shaw's Corner

    ©NTPL / John Hammond

    The Shaws on their honeymoon (Museum Room)

    Cartoon by Bernard Partridge of George Bernard Shaw rehearsing "Arms and the Man" at the Avenue Theatre in 1894, with an inscription, located in the Study at Shaw's Corner

    ©NTPL / John Hammond

    Cartoon by Bernard Partridge of George Bernard Shaw rehearsing "Arms and the Man" at the Avenue Theatre in 1894, with an inscription, located in the Study.

    Portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John. (Dining Room) Shaw's Corner.

    ©NTPL / Augustus John / John Hammond

    Portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John, in the Dining Room. Apparently the Queen Mother owned one of the four copies.

    George Bernard Shaw as an old man with a stick, known as "The Chucker-Outer", displayed in the Dining Room at Shaw's Corner

    ©NTPL / John Hammond

    George Bernard Shaw as an old man with a stick, known as "The Chucker-Outer", displayed in the Dining Room.

    Shaw chopping logs - one of his favourite pastimes

    ©Associated Press Ltd

    As he grew older sawing wood and pruning and clipping in the garden was Shaw's main form of exercise.

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