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A man using a telephone installed at a lower level to be accessible for wheelchair users

Snowy using the telephone
Two ladies, one in a nurse's uniform, talking with others in the background

Staff at St Cecilia's
Several people in a room holding a meeting

Le Court Meetings
Five men in adapted motorcycles outside the old Le Court building

Going for a ride
Photo showing the outside of an old, rapidly deteriorating building

Old Le Court building
Group of people standing next to a bus

Visiting Farnborough
A lady lying on a flat wheelchair holding a hose pipe watering a flower bed

Watering plants at St Cecilia's
Colour photograph of the exterior view of Chipstead Lake Cheshire Home

Exterior of Chipstead Lake
Leonard and Christopher Cheshire as young boys sat in front of a tent in a garden

Leonard and Christopher
Exterior view of a brick building in gardens with a white ambulance or minibus in the foreground

Minibus at Hydon Hill
A woman standing behind a counter with a man in a wheelchair, serving a woman buying something from a tuck shop

Le Court tuck shop
Colour photograph showing the gardens at Chipstead Lake Cheshire Home

Gardens at Chipstead
Several people in wheelchairs on a lawn under parasols with a building and trees in the background

Relaxing at St Cecilia's
Several residents around an arts and crafts table, some creating matchstick buildings

Art table at Chipstead
A close up of a woman wearing a light coloured knitted waistcoat and a white supportive neck collar

Peggy at Le Court
An older woman in a wheelchair displaying several handmade cards of flowers

Flower cards made by Iris
Colour photo showing the new Le Court building and gardens

Sunny Le Court
Procession of wheelchair sportsmen, led by a bagpipe-player, walking down a path in front of the Le Court building

Wheelchair Sports Association procession
Two young children holding hands with their parents walking in a garden with a house in the background

The Cheshire Family
Young man standing by a bench in front of a window at the old Le Court

Old Le Court
Leonard Cheshire, wearing his medals and his daughter Elizabeth Cheshire at a function talking to HM The Queen Mother

Leonard and The Queen Mother
Close up of an older man standing and a younger man sitting, smiling and laughing

Volunteers at Le Court
Group of residents and staff talking with each other outside a wooden building

Having a chat
Full shot of St Cecilia's house with ivy on walls, bay windows and small balcony

St Cecilia's Cheshire Home
Lady handing over keys of a minibus to a man, with a group of people watching on, minibus in background

Handing over the keys
Leonard Cheshire talking with Cardinals in ceremonial clothing, with 2 men in wheelchairs in the middle

Leonard awarded membership of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory The Great
Leonard Cheshire talking to a man in a wheelchair by a window inside a lounge

Leonard at Three Forests
Leonard Cheshire and HM the Queen Mother talking to a man painting a picture at a table

The Queen Mother meets artists at Le Court
A man in a wheelchair being pushed along by another man along a path in front of the house and gardens

Going for a walk around Heatherley
A lady in a wheelchair doing embroidery, with shelves of embroidered dolls, coat hangers and socks next to her

Selling embroidery