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A young Leonard Cheshire using a watering can in the garden, watched by a lady

Watering the plants
Leonard Cheshire on a stage in robes receiving a doctorate

Honorary Doctorate
A young man in a motorised wheelchair with Esther Rantzen and another man smiling at the camera

Esther Rantzen at Le Court
Six young women in nursing uniforms lined up in a posed photo

Service Corps ladies
Several women cooking in an outside kitchen

Cooking outside
A man in a specially adapted horizontal wheelchair outside a brick building with windows

Bobby at Le Court
Four older people sat in armchairs. Two holding cups of tea, one holding a cat and one doing needlework

Tea time at St Cecilia's
A man in a blue jumper in a wheelchair with Leonard and another man holding a basket standing behind

Opening of new workshop
Two men in wheelchairs filming a man painting using a paintbrush in his mouth

Filming Albert Baker
Two men and a woman in wheelchairs putting copies of the Cheshire Smile into envelopes to be sent off

Dispatching the Smile
A woman in front of a typewriter being filmed by a man in a wheelchair, with another man looking on

Filming Therasa
An older woman in a wheelchair displaying several handmade cards of flowers

Flower cards made by Iris
Three women in wheelchairs sat inside, one with cigarettes on her lap tray

Three ladies at Le Court
Man in a wheelchair and a lady kneeling beside him, both holding a statue of Buddha

Buddha
A man in a smart suit throwing balls at skittles with a crowd of smartly dressed people watching from behind

Eamonn Andrews at the Le Court fete
A young woman serving another woman in a tuck-shop style shop, with toiletries on the shelves behind

Le Court shop
A man in a wheelchair sitting next to an early type accessible telephone

Frank Spath
Photo showing a grand staircase, paintings and pillars inside the entrance at Le Court

Grand entrance
A man in a suit with a handlebar moustache and large flower rosette giving a speech to open a fete

Jimmy Edwards open the Le Court fete
Woman pushing a man in a wheelchair who is walking a dog alongside, with trees and buildings in the background

Going for a walk
3 men at desks in a bedroom working on typewriters, with a lady helping one of them

Residents at work
A woman in a wheelchair in a bedroom showing a TV and assistive technology, and personal items

Barbara's room at Le Court
A man in a wheelchair at a workbench working on a piece of wood in a clamp

Neville in the workroom
Close up of a young man in a leather jacket talking to a female resident in a wheelchair outside a brick building

Sharing wisdom
Three men standing by a minibus outside the old Le Court building

Le Court minibus
A woman in a white patterned dress and dark hat giving a speech at a fete

Dame Sybil Thorndyke at Le Court
A woman in a wheelchair at a desk using a pen to hit the keys on a typewriter

Frances using a typewriter
Group of people in fancy dress, some in wheelchairs, in a posed photo

Theatre at Le Court
Leonard standing by the windows inside, behind two men in wheelchairs

Opening of the new workshop
Two men in wheelchairs in the garden in the sunshine

Neville and Brian enjoying the sunshine