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Leonard Cheshire with two women at a fete day, all holding and eating ice cream cones

Ice cream at Le Court Fete
A posed group of men and women, including Leonard and Sue on the TV set of This is Your Life

This is Your Life 1960
Woman in a wheelchair using assistive technology with her feet to operate a computer

Foot-controlled computers
Two women and a young man sat outside the Le Court building making lampshades

Jimmy outside Le Court
A woman in a wheelchair being pushed up a ramp into a bus with other people watching on

Moving house
A man painting using a paintbrush in his mouth, being filmed by two men in wheelchairs

Albert Baker painting
Photo showing the entrance hall at the new Le Court, with a sideboard covered in vases with plants

Entrance hall new Le Court
Three residents in wheelchairs talking to four young people outside in the gardens near some benches

Talking in the gardens at Le Court
Leonard Cheshire making a speech at a table with others watching on

Leonard Cheshire accepting the Carnegie Gift
3 women standing and 4 in wheelchairs outside all looking at a booklet called 'The Cheshire Homes'

Looking at the Cheshire Homes
Photos from a ceremony with Lord Snowdon

Photos from a ceremony with Lord Snowden
A woman in a wheelchair in front of a board advertising minibus outings, with notebooks on her lap

Transport Manager
Family shot of Sue Ryder holding a baby Elizabeth with Leonard's parents and another woman near a car

Family photo
A close up of a man weaving a seat for a stool

Weaving a chair
A man kneeling looking up the chimney with a man dressed as Father Christmas standing behind

Neville looking up the chimney
Photo of the back doorway, windows and gardens at St Cecilia's

Garden at St Cecilia's
A hand-typed letter detailing why a food parcel was sent to Le Court Nursing Home in November 1949

Olive Selkirk - Australian Food Parcel Letter
HM The Queen Mother and Leonard Cheshire walking through a doorway into the new Le Court house

Le Court welcomes The Queen Mother
Colour photograph of the exterior view and driveway with cars at Chipstead Lake

Driveway at Chipstead
Man knocking at a door on a long corridor.

Le Court single rooms wing
A mobile library parked outside Staunton Harold with staff offering books to residents

Library services for Staunton residents
Woman standing, handing a pile of dishes to a man in a wheelchair in front of a kitchen sink

Cleaning the dishes
Close up of an older Leonard Cheshire dressed in a smart suit

Leonard Cheshire in conversation
Five people in wheelchairs and three others standing in a room with computers in the background

Heather-Com team
A woman in chef's whites and hat carving a turkey in the kitchen

Christmas turkey at Le Court
Photo inside a card. Leonard Cheshire talking to a priest in the grounds at Le Court

Father Devine 50th anniversary
A man in a wheelchair with his back to the camera sat at a desk with various film and recording equipment around the room

Brian's bedroom at Le Court
Photo showing the outside of an old, rapidly deteriorating building

Old Le Court building
A man pushing another man in a wheelchair across a pedestrian crossing with shops in the background

Going shopping
Group of residents and staff talking with each other outside a wooden building

Having a chat