The story of how Winnie the Pooh was inspired by a real bear – in pictures
In 1914 Harry Colebourn, a vet on his way to tend horses in the first world war, rescued a baby bear and named her Winnie. A remarkable friendship began and a journey from the fields of Canada to an army base in England and finally to London Zoo, where Winnie made another friend - a boy named Christopher Robin… Harry Colebourn’s real-life great-granddaughter, Lindsay Mattick tells the story