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Cheshire Smile June 1991

Editor: Kay Christiansen. The Queen opens Oakwood Cheshire Home in Stockport. Click on the button below to read this Cheshire Smile...

Oral Histories – Fatma, Alder House

An extract from an oral history video recorded with Fatma at Alder House. Subtitles are available. Fatma talks about growing up in Cyprus, moving to the UK to work in...

Cheshire Smile August 1991

Editor: Kay Christiansen. Heatherley celebrates their 30th anniversary. Click on the button below to read this Cheshire Smile...

Oral Histories – Sarah, Alder House

An extract from an oral history video recorded with Sarah at Alder House. Subtitles are available. Sarah talks about discovering Alder House when she was on a Red Cross Holiday,...

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Interview Part 9

Soundtrack for a Service Corps training scheme, recorded in the 1970s. Leonard discusses how state provision for disabled people and attitudes have changed since he began his work in 1948,...

Cheshire Smile January 1992

Editor: Kay Christiansen. Frances Hopwood, resident of Le Court and former editor of the Cheshire Smile, describes her return holiday to South Africa. Click on the button below to read...

Cheshire Smile April 1992

Editor: Kay Christiansen. 1992 designated as a Year of Awareness for the Cheshire Foundation. Leonard Cheshire is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 74. Obituary for Ian...

Cheshire Smile October 1992

Editor: Kay Christiansen. In Memoriam edition for Leonard Cheshire, who died on 31st July 1992. Click on the button below to read this Cheshire Smile...

Editor: Kay Christiansen. Creative Activity Contest 1992 award winners and photographs, including Susie Skinner. Article describing the memorial service for Leonard Cheshire at Westminster Cathedral in London. Peter Reynolds, resident...

Cheshire Smile October 1993

Editor: Kay Christiansen. Colin Corbett, a resident of St Cecilia's in Kent fulfills his dream of undertaking a parachute jump. Prime Minister, John Major, meets residents of Three Forests Cheshire...