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Leonard Cheshire looking through a script, sitting in a director's chair in a film recording studio

Recording 'Thoughts for the Future'

Cheshire Smile August 1990
Photo of a wooden building with white windows in a parkland setting

Exterior view of Hydon Hill
Leonard Cheshire and another man talking with 3 cast members from a theatre production

Midsummer Nights Dream at Le Court
A young girl and a young boy laughing, sat together in an adult's wheelchair

Jeromy and Elizabeth having fun

Oral Histories - Peter, Heatherley
A man in a wheelchair sitting in front of various film recording equipment

Film recording equipment

Cheshire Smile March 1986
Group photograph of residents in wheelchairs holding various award certificates

Creative Activity Contest
A man standing beside a white minibus in front of a brick building, near a sign saying fete funds will be used to buy the bus

Minibus Fundraising
Man in a wheelchair in the foreground with a woman next to him, and a woman in a nurse's uniform sat behind

At Lourdes
Male resident in a wheelchair wearing headphones being fed by a female carer in his bedroom

Bedroom at Hydon Hill

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Interview Part 5
Leonard Cheshire reading documents in a temporary office on a minibus

The Mission Bus
A wedding photo outside a church, the bride and best man in wheelchairs and the groom with crutches

Derek and Maggie's wedding
A young Leonard Cheshire picking fruit in a country cottage garden

Picking fruit
Five residents in wheelchairs with their escorts, holding glasses of wine at an awards event

Winning group

Cheshire Smile Summer 1960
Group photograph of fourteen people sat at a table after receiving an award for their crafts

Award Winners at Chipstead
A man at a ceremony to lay a large square stone, holding a mallet in his hand, with a crowd behind

Foundation stone of Le Court
Photo of a bedroom for guests, showing a bed, table lamps, bedside table and armchair

Guest room at Le Court
A man lying on the ground talking to another man in a wheelchair, with the old Le Court house in the background

Relaxing outside
A man in a blue jumper in a wheelchair with Leonard and another man holding a basket standing behind

Opening of new workshop
Sue Ryder, Leonard Cheshire and two Nurses pose together with the newborn Jeromy Cheshire

Leonard Cheshire and Sue Ryder
Close up of Leonard Cheshire as a baby, sat on a cushion in a chair

Leonard as a baby
Male resident making a wooden stool with assistance from staff, with two female residents watching on

Craft activities at Chipstead
Group of many people, some in wheelchairs, standing in front of a blue minibus

Three Forests minibus

Speech by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire at RAF Marham
Leonard Cheshire in a chair talking to a man in a wheelchair in the gardens at Le Court

Leonard Cheshire and Lawrie Mawer

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