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Cheshire Smile February 1988
A man in a wheelchair outside a marquee with a man and two women

Frank Spath with Dame Sybil Thorndyke

Cheshire Smile October 1988
Exterior view of a brick building in gardens with a white ambulance or minibus in the foreground

Minibus at Hydon Hill
Two women, one in a wheelchair, talking in a lounge in front of a window

Chatting in the lounge

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Interview Part 1
Lots of people, some in wheelchairs, sat at long tables inside a marquee

International Day at Le Court
A man in a wheelchair using a rear moveable ramp to access a minibus, assisted by another man

Accessing the Le Court bus

Oral Histories Compilation

Founded on Failure (Audio Described)
A woman in a white patterned dress and dark hat giving a speech at a fete

Dame Sybil Thorndyke at Le Court
A lady standing with a walking stick in the foreground with residents in wheelchairs sat at dining tables behind

Dinner hall 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
Leonard and Sue smiling, standing at the bottom of the steps to an airplane

Off to India
Photo showing a woman in a wheelchair with Edwina Currie and Leonard Cheshire and another man at a dining table

Annual Conference 1987 with Edwina Currie
Two men in red parachute jumpsuits and blue hats high above the ground after a parachute jump

Colin's parachute jump

Cheshire Smile Summer 1971
A man using a telephone installed at a lower level to be accessible for wheelchair users

Snowy using the telephone
Two women in wheelchairs laughing. One doing needlework, one with a food bowl on a table across her chair

Chatting at Heatherley
An older man in a wheelchair at the bottom of a step with two other men leaning on the chair, all smiling at the camera

John, Bob and Ed

Cheshire Smile Autumn 1955

Interview with Lady Sue Ryder and Group Captain Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire talking with Cardinals in ceremonial clothing, with a man in a wheelchair in the middle

Leonard becomes a member of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory The Great

Two women in long coats standing outside a building with a car behind them

Outside at Heatherley

Group Captain Cheshire's speech at the RAF Reserves Club
Leonard Cheshire and the Queen Mother walking through a doorway towards the camera

Queen Mother at Le Court
3 men at desks in a bedroom working on typewriters, with a lady helping one of them

Residents at work
A man in a wheelchair at a workbench working on a piece of wood in a clamp

Neville in the workroom
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
Two men in wheelchairs filming a man painting using a paintbrush in his mouth

Filming Albert Baker