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Cheshire Smile Spring 1969
Lady in a black and white spotty top with a typewriter has a letter read to her by another lady

Letter time
Man standing making speech at a table, Leonard Cheshire and others at a table watching on

Carnegie Gift to Le Court
A smiling woman sat in bed receives a boxed parcel from Leonard Cheshire

Olive Selkirk - Australian Nurse
Leonard Cheshire as a young teenager holding a gun and carrying a dead rabbit, with two dogs in the foreground

Country Hunt

Cheshire Smile Autumn 1971
A woman in chef's whites and hat carving a turkey in the kitchen

Christmas turkey at Le Court
A mobile library parked outside Staunton Harold with staff offering books to residents

Library services for Staunton residents
Three men in wheelchairs and three staff members walking a dog in the grounds

Three residents outside at Le Court
Young man in a wheelchair beside a table in a shop

Shopping at Heatherley

Cheshire Smile October 1988
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 in a suit and his mother in a light dress and hat sat drinking tea at an event

Leonard and Primrose
Two men and a woman smiling and talking, standing outside a brick building holding booklets

Staff discussion

Oral Histories - Trev, Sobell Lodge

Oral Histories - Christine and Jo, Alder House
Group of people in fancy dress, some in wheelchairs, in a posed photo

In costume at Le Court

Cheshire Smile August 1988
Several people sitting in wheelchairs or on stools in a workshop setting doing various activities

Activities in the Le Court workshop
Two young children holding hands with their parents walking in a garden with a house in the background

The Cheshire Family
Leonard Cheshire talking and shaking hands with a man in a wheelchair, with others watching on

Talking with Leonard at Three Forests
A man lying on the ground talking to another man in a wheelchair, with the old Le Court house in the background

Relaxing outside
Colour photograph of the exterior view of Chipstead Lake Cheshire Home

Exterior of Chipstead Lake
A woman in a bedroom looking excitedly at a budgie in a cage next to her

Budgie at Le Court
Wheelchair sportsmen in a marquee,with residents and staff behind, all singing.

Wheelchair Sports Association in marquee

Cheshire Smile International Winter 1994

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Interview Part 8
Two women and a young man sat outside the Le Court building making lampshades

Jimmy outside Le Court
Male resident, Ian, showing his handmade model barge to Head of Home Peter Wetherly

Boat building
A man and a woman sitting in deckchairs outside drinking from teacups

Leonard's Father and Stepmother