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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
Close up of a man in a wheelchair wearing a bow tie looking at the camera

Bow tie
Woman in a wheelchair using a guillotine to make greetings cards in the foreground, with other residents at tables in the background

Making cards at Heatherley
Close up shot of a crib and stable Christmas scene made from matchsticks, with model animals and people

Matchstick Crib
A man in an adapted motorcycle and a man in a wheelchair sat outside with a shed in the background

Derek and Peter
Two people sat at a desk in a home-based recording studio, one wearing headphones and smiling

The Cheshire Voice studio
Photo showing the old Le Court house with gardens in front

Old Le Court
Leonard Cheshire and another man sat in a conservatory filming for a TV interview

Tony Wardle Interview at Mote House
Several people in wheelchairs and others standing in front of an RAF helicopter at RAF Odiham

Le Court residents visit RAF Odiham
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
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 of the Mote House building in the distance with large trees in the foreground

Mote House on the hill
Parachuting soldiers landing on the lawn, with crowds watching in the distance

Parachute Drop
Male resident in a wheelchair wearing headphones being fed by a female carer in his bedroom

Bedroom at Hydon Hill
Posed group of several people in wheelchairs and priests in black outfits standing behind, outside at Le Court

Priests visit Le Court residents
A woman in white overalls stirring a large cooking pot in the kitchens at Le Court

Kitchens at Le Court
Leonard Cheshire standing with his hands in his pockets outside a stone building posing for the camera

Merton College, Oxford
A man and a woman sitting in deckchairs outside drinking from teacups

Leonard's Father and Stepmother
Posed group of international visitors and two residents in wheelchairs

Visitors at Le Court
Young man in a wheelchair with a computer keyboard on his lap, holding a book. Others using computers in the background

Computer room at Heatherley
Leonard Cheshire sat up in a hospital bed using tape recording equipment

Recording at Midhurst
Two female residents in wheelchairs and five other people in a posed photo on the terrace at Le Court

Russian visitors at Le Court
A man standing on a platform in a smart suit giving a speech in front of an old house with flags decorating the windows

Eamonn Andrews opens the fete
Leonard Cheshire and Sue Ryder shaking hands and talking with a man in a wheelchair outside Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey
Photo showing the old Le Court building on the left, and the newly built Le Court on the right

Old and new Le Court
Three men in a garden with the old Le Court house in the background.

Garden entertainment
Man in a wheelchair at a computer, with a man and woman watching on

Computer demonstration at Heatherley
HM The Queen Mother being shown the printing press used to produce the Cheshire Smile with Leonard Cheshire nearby

The Queen Mother at Le Court
A woman standing in a doorway with another woman with a purse in her lap in front of several boxes of cigarettes

Old shop at Le Court
Jock Moncrieff, Leonard's Wireless Operator with 35 Squadron and Leonard Cheshire at a Black tie event during the Second World War.

Leonard and Jock Moncrieff