Some museum artefacts have information missing. In some cases we are confident that a photo is of Quorn or is related to Quorn, but we cannot locate the village area or buildings, or perhaps people in the photo are unknown.
As you view the collection, artefacts with missing information will be highlighted, and we also list them below. If you can contribute information about any of these items, please contact us.
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 |  | 1935 Silver Jubilee Seat petition In May 1935, King George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee was celebrated in Quorn with ...... cont.
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 |  | Old Quorn residents - George and Mary Gartshore George and Mary Gartshore were born in 1830, married in 1854 and moved to Quorn in about ...... cont.
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 |  | Gartshore family, summer fete, Stafford Orchard, 1960s A summer fete on Stafford Orchard in the 1960s, with George and Olive Gartshore and their ...... cont.
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 |  | M. Wright and Sons factory, Quorn, approx 1880 Fifteen men standing outside M. Wright and Sons factory in about 1880, possibly a little ...... cont.
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 |  | Opening of Quorn Football Club new ground, 1960 Loughborough Echo, Friday, September 2nd, 1960.
QUORN F.C. - NEW GROUND AND ...... cont.
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 |  | Manor House Hotel, Quorn The Manor House Hotel on Woodhouse Road opposite the railway station, was built for the ...... cont.
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 |  | M Wright and Sons, Quorn - Centenary Celebration, 1960 - Programme M Wright and Sons, elastic webbing manufacturers, started in Leicester in 1860 and moved ...... cont.
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 |  | Retirement concert for Jack Briers, Head of Quorn Primary School, 1971 These photographs were taken on the occasion of the retirement of Jack Briers, the ...... cont.
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Teachers, left to right: Jack ...... cont.
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 |  | Friends of Markfield – Quorn Gala Day Football Tournament During the 1960’s and 70’s the people of Quorn supported the Markfield Hospital by ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Village Event, early/mid 1950s A village event in the early/mid 1950s. The gentleman holding the darts aloft is former ...... cont.
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 |  | Dedication of Lime Trees, Quorn, May 1952 In May 1952 Quorn dedicated an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, planted in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary School, early 1950s Taken in the early 1950s in the old primary school playground, when the school was on ...... cont.
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 |  | Schooldays at Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary, 1957 to 1961 John Tweedie and his twin brother Jim were at St Barts Primary during the school years ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Baptist Church Christian Endeavour Group, early 1900s The Baptist Church in Quorn has always had a large following since they came to the ...... cont.
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 |  | M Wright and Sons, Quorn – Winding Room Wright’s factory has been in Quorn since 1870. This photograph of the winding room is ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Ladies in Skegness, 1953 Four Quorn ladies enjoying the sunshine in ‘Skeggie’, in coronation year 1953.
Only ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn St Bartholomew's National School, 1908/1909 In the first part of last century, what we know today as primary schools kept children ...... cont.
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 |  | Robert Sutton, Quorn Family Butcher This photograph was taken on High Street in Quorn around 1920, and shows Robert and Gerty ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31
Rosières, the Somme, France
A Canadian ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France
George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34
Ypres, Belgium
Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Ernest was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21
Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Marrying a Quorn girl
Charles ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20
Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France
Ernest was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33
Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28
France
A difficult start in life
Walter was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27
Hooge, Belgium
George was one of five children. ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40
Passchendaele, Belgium
Growing up in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Although Chapman is ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20
Vlamertinghe, Belgium
Before the war
William ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft Died 20th September 1915, aged 29
Ypres, Belgium
Walter Daft was the youngest ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James William Dockray Died 20th July 1918, aged 19
France
The Dockray family moved to Quorn from ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Facer Died 9th April 1918, aged 18
Loos, France
A well-known family in Quorn
Facer ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Fletcher Died 25th September 1918, aged 34
Sorel-le-Grand, the Somme, France
Early ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edward Gamble Died 16th August 1917, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Gamble is a well-known name in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Grant Died 21st March 1918, aged 31
Bapaume, France
Early years
The Grant family ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Hackett Died 18th September 1918, aged 21
Battle of Épehy, the Somme, France
Early ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hallam Died 22nd October 1914, aged 29
Rue du Bois, France
The first to die
The ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Matthew Henry Hickling Died 13th May 1915, aged 21
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Martin Hollingsworth Died 5th October 1916, aged 28
The Somme, France
James was born in Quorn in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Hubbard Died 12th April 1916, aged 32
Poperinge, Belgium
Before the war
Henry ...... cont.
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 |  | WW1 Roll of Honour - James Hutton Died 6th October 1917, aged 25
France
James Hutton was born in Quorn and was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Thomas Hutton Died 26th September 1917, aged 35
Zonnebeke, Belgium
Thomas Hutton was the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Newton Jacques Died 27th September 1917, aged 25
Zonnebeke, Belgium
A tough start in life
At ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Joiner Died 8th July 1917, aged 22
Metz, France
A childhood in Quorn
Frank ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Jones Died 4th October 1917, aged 19
Broodseinde, Ypres, Belgium
William and Mary ...... cont.
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 |  | WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Basil Langrish Died 3rd October 1918, aged 19
Grévillers, Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Ernest Lee Died 13th November 1916, aged 22
Hebuterne, France
A hard start in life and moving ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harold Lockwood Died 3rd October 1918, aged 20
Bellenglise, France
Early days
Sarah Wilders, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Lovett Died 25th September 1916, aged 30
Gueudecourt, the Somme, France
An old Quorn ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Samuel William Martin Died 28th May 1915, aged 25
North West of Festubert, Pas de Calais, France
Early ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hubert Mason Moore Died 5th September 1918, aged 24
Gavrelle, Arras, France
The Moore family on ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charley Ottey Died 30th July 1916, aged 18
Wounded in France, died in a military hospital in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Henry Pick 25th September 1917, aged 26
Marquise Quarry, France
Roots in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Victor Rennocks Died 23rd April 1916, aged 26
Hinckley Hospital
Family background
The ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Bertie James Shenton Died 3rd August 1916, aged 19
Ovillers near Albert, France
Early years
Bertie ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Jack Shephard Died 18th July 1917, aged 43
Mesopotamia, Iraq
Growing up in Quorn
The 1881 ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Squires Died 3rd December 1915, aged 32
Lemnos Island, Greece
Frederick Charles ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Hall Taylor Died 30th October 1914, aged 30
First Battle of Ypres, Belgium
Life prior to the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest William Ward Died 27th October 1914, aged 24
Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, French Flanders
A ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Webster Died 26th November 1914, aged 37
Sheerness, Kent
Early years in Quorn
There ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Sydney Francis Whysall Died 26th March 1918, aged 32
Gailly, the Somme, France
Early years
The ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Willday Died 4th January 1919, aged 31, buried in Quorn Churchyard.
Died of wounds received ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School, Boer War Roll of Honour There are three rolls of honour hanging in Rawlins school. The oldest of these ...... cont.
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 |  | The Mill House pub, Quorn, ladies darts team, October 1947 Loughborough Echo, Friday, 17th October 1947
The Mill House pub was on Leicester Road, ...... cont.
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 |  | Terrific Gale Strikes Loughborough and Quorn, March 1947 Loughborough Echo, Friday, 21st March 1947
ROADS BLOCKED BY FALLEN ...... cont.
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 |  | ‘Quorna’ Tape, made by M. Wright and Sons of Quorn ‘Quorna’ was a brand name used by Wrights factory in Quorn in the early and middle parts ...... cont.
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 |  | Renumbering of Properties on Quorn Streets Over the years several of the older streets in Quorn have been renumbered. This can be ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods, Meeting Street, 1960 Before flood prevention measures were taken in Quorn, the village used to flood with ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School panoramic photograph, 1947 This 'whole school' photograph was taken at Rawlins School in 1947, shortly after the war ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Home Guard 1942 The Home Guard were originally known as the LDV (Local Defence Volunteers) and were ...... cont.
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 |  | Warwick Avenue, Quorn Warwick Avenue came into being in 1934, when Gambles, the builders, were building the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Brownies, early/mid 1960s Quorn Brownies in the early/mid 1960.
Can anyone provide any more names?
Names:
5- ...... cont.
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 |  | Daphne Oxenford with Quorn Brownies, 1958 Many people will remember Daphne Oxenford as a well known presenter of ‘Listen with ...... cont.
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 |  | Frank Ockenden’s Wedding, Quorn, 1958. Elsie Bishop was born (as Elsie Lovett) in Quorn in 1912. She married her husband Roy in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Hall students Christmas party, early 1970s Elsie Bishop was born (as Elsie Lovett) in Quorn in 1912. She married her husband Roy in ...... cont.
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 |  | Home Guard, Quorn WW2 This photograph was supplied by the family of the late Elsie Bishop who lived with her ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn lads, Quorn Cross 1912 This postcard was sent in 1912 by 14 year old Richard Rudston Langrish, to his mother, ...... cont.
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 |  | Stafford Orchard, Quorn, 1963 Who remembers this play equipment on Stafford Orchard (Quorn’s park) in the 1960s? When ...... cont.
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 |  | Stafford Orchard, Quorn, 1950s Three girls in Quorn’s park (Stafford Orchard) in the 1950s. The girl on the left is ...... cont.
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 |  | Jackie Mann – Quorn farmer, Soar Road, early 1900s John Mann, or Jackie as he was known, was born in Barrow upon Soar in 1854. On 12th ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Laundry buildings Quorn Laundry was based on Barrow Road, where Quorndon Terrace is today. This photograph ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Hygienic Laundry basket This Quorn laundry basket (or hamper) was used by the Pagets from Nanpantan Hall in ...... cont.
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 |  | Masterbuilder construction set, made in Quorn 1940s This is definitely one of the more unusual Quorn artefacts that has come to ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Primary School teachers - 1973 The teachers at Quorn Primary School on the School Lane site, just before the school ...... cont.
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 |  | Aerial view of Wright's factory and surrounding area - approx 1952 This aerial photograph was taken in the early 1950s, as evidenced by the size of the lime ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn cigarette tin, early 1900s This Quorn cigarette tin is very well worn and we think is a very rare find. Underneath ...... cont.
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 |  | A wartime wedding in Quorn, 1945 This is the wedding of Barbara Spoor from Soar Road in Quorn, to William Murray (an ...... cont.
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 |  | A history of the Church Rooms written in 1979 The history of the Church Rooms below was written by Jack Field in 1979, when the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Church Rooms, 1979 golden jubilee order of service In September 1979 the golden jubilee of Quorn Church Rooms was celebrated with a week of ...... cont.
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 |  | Wright's Factory, weaving room 1923/24 One of the elastic weaving rooms at Wright's factory, Quorn in 1923 or 1924.
The ...... cont.
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 |  | Eva and James Pell, 75 Meeting Street Can you help with any more names for the people in these pictures, or do you know the ...... cont.
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 |  | Cycle racing on Quorn Green! Before it became a car park, Quorn Green in the centre of the village, on Station Road ...... cont.
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 |  | Royal Oak, Quorn in the floods, early 1930s This photograph was taken in the floods at Quorn Cross/Meeting Street, by the Royal Oak ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn ladies outing, 1950s? Little is known about this photograph, other than it is Quorn ladies group enjoying an ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Cricket Club, 2nd XI, 1910 The names that accompanied the photograph are given below.
Left to right:
Back row: W ...... cont.
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Total: 395 artefacts returned over 4 pages