Like most active villages, Quorn has always
loved fetes and carnivals. We include information and photographs
recalling village events, often taking place in the Stafford Orchard
park. These include Jubilees, celebratory occasions, and the many
festivals which have occurred over the years.
 |  | Firework Danger! – from 1892
Saturday the 5th November 1892 saw a dreadful accident in Quorn, outside the shops on ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Wakes on the Green, 1950s
For many years the annual Quorn Wakes (fair), was held on Quorn Village Green, which is ...... cont.
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| | Recreation Ground for Quorn, April 1914
Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News - Thursday 2nd April ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Church Room Programme of Events 1938/39
Quorn Church Room opened in 1929 and provided a much needed focal point for church and ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Church Rooms, 1979 golden jubilee programme
In 1979 Quorn Church Rooms celebrated its golden jubilee, having served the village for ...... 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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 | | Church Room fundraising fete, June 1929
In 1922 a committee was formed to raise funds for the building of a Church Room. Several ...... 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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 | | 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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 | | 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 Scout Gang Show programme, 1963
Below is a Quorn Scout Gang Show programme from 1963.
Remember that if you want to ...... cont.
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 | | Enjoying the sunshine! Quorn 1920s
This photograph was taken on the Greens at Barrow, which is within the parish of Quorn, ...... cont.
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 | | Tom Gartshore from Quorn – Fishing advice, 1952
Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952
They only catch ‘tiddlers’ today - ...... cont.
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 | | Football – Quorn match win! 1952
Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952
Quorn Recover From Shock
Quorn 2, ...... cont.
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 | | Collecting leaves on High Street, Quorn, October 1952
This great picture appeared in the Loughborough Monitor on Friday 17th October 1952, when ...... cont.
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 | | Fundraising for Quorn Church Rooms - garden fete accounts, 1923 to 1927
The Church Rooms were built in 1929, but the construction was preceded by several years ...... cont.
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 | | Pillings Lock, Quorn
Pillings Lock is in the Parish of Quorn, to the north-east of the village itself, and is ...... cont.
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 | | Stafford Orchard Park, 1936, Sarah Farley
This wonderful photograph was taken in 1936 on Stafford Orchard, the park in the middle ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Garden Party, June 1963
Loughborough Monitor - 7th June 1963
Garden party raises £94
Quorn Church Rooms ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Fete - Effort for Church Hall Fund - 1927
Loughborough Monitor and Herald - 30th June 1927
Quorn Fete - Effort for Church Hall ...... cont.
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 | | The Chequers Inn, 1980s
The Chequers Inn, formally the Hurst, on Loughborough Road in Quorn, used to be a lively ...... cont.
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 | | A jolly outing from Quorn! - continued
This photograph was taken on the same day as the pictures in artefact 1852.
The ...... cont.
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 | | A jolly outing from Quorn!
These photographs were taken on an outing from Quorn, and everyone seems to be having a ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Mayday 1950s – photographs taken on Leicester Road
Image 1
This photograph is taken standing on the bridge looking down Leicester Road ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn memories from the 1940s
Judy Goacher (nee Dorman), who now lives in Canada, visited Quorn in June 2014 for the ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 fundraising event, Saturday 26th September 1915
These two postcards were acquired several years ago, but it was only recently that they ...... cont.
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 | | Rawlins Grammar School, Quorn, Christmas 1947
This photograph shows pupils, teachers and a few visitors enjoying a Punch and Judy show ...... cont.
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 | | An unknown event, on an unknown date, probably on Stafford Orchard
So who are this happy group? They seem to be mainly men dressed as women!
What was ...... cont.
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 | | Miss Judy Dormon - Carnival Queen. 1945
Loughborough Echo - 22nd June 1945
A dance was given in the Village Hall, lent by ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Amateur Dramatic Society’s fine start - 1950
Loughborough Monitor - 9th February 1950
The newly-formed Quorn Amateur Dramatic ...... cont.
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 | | 2nd Quorn Scouts summer camp, 1952
These photographs were taken during a kit inspection at 2nd Quorn Scouts summer camp, in ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's Christmas Party - 1972
29th December 1972 – Loughborough Echo
M Wright and Sons of Quorn held their annual ...... cont.
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 | | Opening of the new Methodist Wesleyan Chapel, Quorn
These photographs were taken by William Shuttlewood, a Quorn photographer and chemist, at ...... cont.
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 | | Rawlins Spring Concert - 1966
Loughborough Echo - 13th May 1966
The school hall was packed with an appreciative ...... cont.
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| | Parcels Fund concert - 1939
Loughborough Echo - 1st December 1939
The Village Hall was well filled on Wednesday ...... cont.
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| | Old People's Meat Tea - 1896
Loughborough Herald - 16th January 1896
On Tuesday evening upwards of 110 old people ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Ladies Cricket Club - 1930
From left to right, top row:
E. Revell, P. Mountency, W. Peberdy, J Cooper, E. Peberdy, ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Conservative Club party - 1977
Loughborough Echo - 30th December 1977
Caught in the party mood are about 50 children ...... cont.
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 | | Successful 'Suspect' at Quorn - 1960
Loughborough Monitor - 15th April 1960
Members of Quorn Dramatic Society presented the ...... cont.
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 | | Methodist Church fete - 1975
Loughborough Monitor - 18th September 1975
Cousins Dora and Nicola Bowler make a ...... cont.
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 | | British Legion effort at Quorn
Loughborough Echo Friday July 7th 1950
A costume parade and fete was held in the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn's Fetes and Fairs, 1960s and 1970s - a photo album
Jack and Phyllis Field were very well known in the village and involved in many aspects ...... cont.
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| | Harvest Suppers at the Church Rooms – 1960s/70s
These photographs were taken originally as slides by Jack and Phyllis Field in the 1960s ...... cont.
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 | | Church picnic 1979
These photographs were taken at the Church picnic in 1979. the picnic was held on Rawlins ...... cont.
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 | | St Bartholomew's Church nativity, late 1960s
The nativity took place in the Church and was photographed by Jack Field.
Standing, ...... cont.
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 | | 1954 - Parade at the Village Hall, by children wearing clothes made by their mothers
These photographs appeared in the press in 1954 and show a parade at the Village Hall, by ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Girls' Friendly Society on an outing in about 1929
This photograph and short article appeared in the press in the 1990s. It was submitted by ...... cont.
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 | | An event in the Church Rooms in the 1970s
Standing, left to right: Phyllis Sharpe, Noel Whitlock
Seated, left to right: Phyllis ...... cont.
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 | | Village Hall drama productions, 1930s
These two photographs show a young Jack Field in two different Village Hall drama ...... cont.
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Total: 268 artefacts returned over 6 pages
