Wednesday 21st August 2019  

Quorn Families and People

Apart from the famous local names such as Farnham, Warner, Cradock and Firr; this site has plenty of interesting snippets concerning village folk. You can also use the search box on the upper right hand side to look for a family surname which interests you. We would like to expand this section, so if you can supply information about your family in Quorn, we would be pleased to publish it here.

		Raven Cottage, 31 Meeting Street, Quorn – House deeds/timeline Property deeds are a valuable source of local history information, but since land ...... cont.
		Thomas Cradock of Quorn Court Thomas Cradock was born in Loughborough in 1795. He married Mary Octavia Grover (known as ...... cont.
		Memories of life in Quorn, by Arthur Long Tom Long’s name is known by most people in Quorn because of Tom Long’s Meadow, which lies ...... cont.
		James Henry Pell, 75 Meeting Street, Quorn The Pell family were in Quorn from the 1890s and James Henry Pell arrived with his ...... cont.
		Grace Wesley, former Quorn Rawlins pupil, marriage 1924 Grace Wesley was a pupil at Rawlins Grammar School from 1908 to 1912, and afterwards she ...... cont.
		Video - Tom Long haymaking in his meadow, 1960s This converted cine film shows Tom Long making hay in his meadow in the early 1960s. The ...... cont.
		The Parkinson family – Baptists in Quorn William Parkinson starting farming in Quorn in 1757, and his brother Robert came to live ...... cont.
		Silhouettes – Farnham family, Quorn These three silhouettes are about 5 inches (13 cm) tall and are members of the ancient ...... cont.
		Mizpah brooch – Arthur and Doris Green, WW2 Arthur Green from Quorn and Doris Ada Crowsley from Bedford, would never have met had it ...... cont.
		Home Farm and the Pepper Family Life in Quorn was very different in the 1900s, with many more farms in the village. One ...... cont.
		George Harry Gartshore on Gambles premises, Meeting Street, early 1940s George Harry Gartshore was a grandson of the famous George Gartshore who was a farrier to ...... cont.
		George and Olive Gartshore and their family – early 1940s The Gartshores first came to Quorn around 1860 when George Gartshore (born 1830) became a ...... cont.
		Fancy dress on Quorn Village Green Fancy dress on Quorn Village Green (now the car park), about 1966. Left to right: ...... cont.
		Quorn lads! 1950s George Gartshore from Mansfield Street has provided these great photographs of some of ...... cont.
		Quorn folk, late 1940s/early 1950s In the 1940s George Gartshore, who now lives on Mansfield Street (2019) bought himself a ...... cont.
		A prince that lived in Quorn! During the 1930s Sardar Taj Mohamed Khan Odho, a young Indian prince lived on Chaveney ...... cont.
		Quorn Brownies, early/mid 1960s Quorn Brownies in the early/mid 1960. Can anyone provide any names? Names: 16 - ...... cont.
		Quorn Brownies and Guides, late 1950s As detailed in cont.
		Daphne Oxenford with Quorn Brownies, 1958 Many people will remember Daphne Oxenford as a well known presenter of ‘Listen with ...... cont.
		Frank Ockenden’s Wedding, Quorn, 1958. Elsie Bishop was born (as Elsie Lovett) in Quorn in 1912. She married her husband Roy in ...... cont.
		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.
		Roy and Elsie Bishop, Quorn family photographs 1940s These photographs are from the family album of Elsie Bishop who used to live on Nursery ...... cont.
		Quorn lads, Quorn Cross 1912 This postcard was sent in 1912 by 14 year old Richard Rudston Langrish, to his mother, ...... cont.
		Silver rose bowl, presented to George White of Quorn, 1919 George White was a very well-known Quorn figure. His main job was a solicitor’s clerk at ...... cont.
		Ploughing prize, 1848, William Sarson, Quorn The wording on this impressive tankard says: “1st PRIZE for Ploughing Presented by ...... cont.
		Stafford Orchard, Quorn, 1963 Who remembers this play equipment on Stafford Orchard (Quorn’s park) in the 1960s? When ...... cont.
		Stafford Orchard, Quorn, 1950s Three girls in Quorn’s park (Stafford Orchard) in the 1950s. The girl on the left is ...... cont.
		Stafford Orchard, Quorn, about 1984 The young girl in these photograph is Lynda Bradshaw. In the mid 1980s, Lynda was nanny ...... cont.
		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.
		Gladys and Inis Rumsby, Church Lane, Quorn, 1909 These photographs were taken in about 1909 and the two young girls are twins, Gladys and ...... cont.
		Charles Tomblin – killed near Quorn Station, September 1936 Charles Tomblin was born in Barrowden in Rutland on 14th April 1871, one of five ...... cont.
		Lloyd Eric Tomlyn, 1928 to 2016 – Memories of Quorn Lloyd Eric Tomlyn was born in Mountsorrel in 1928, the son of Eric Dudley Ernest Tomlyn ...... cont.
		Harvest at Home Farm, Quorn, early 1900s Thomas Pepper was born in 1883 in Long Whatton. He was married twice and had six children ...... cont.
		Quorn Primary School teachers - 1973 The teachers at Quorn Primary School on the School Lane site, just before the school ...... cont.
		Peter Preston 1938 to 2018 – Quorn boy edits the Guardian Peter Preston was born in 1938 and died on 6th January 2018. He was editor of The ...... cont.
		A wartime wedding in Quorn, 1945 This is the wedding of Barbara Spoor from Soar Road in Quorn, to William Murray (an ...... cont.
		Death of Mrs Farnham - Funeral Quorn Leicester Daily Mercury - Saturday 14th October 1911 The death is announced of Mrs E B ...... cont.
		Church Room fundraising fete, June 1929 In 1922 a committee was formed to raise funds for the building of a Church Room. Several ...... cont.
		Wright's Factory, weaving room 1923/24 One of the elastic weaving rooms at Wright's factory, Quorn in 1923 or 1924. The ...... cont.
		Tommy Allen 1911 to 1996 Thomas William Allen was born on 30th April 1911 at 46 Meeting Street and lived in Quorn ...... cont.
		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.
		Quorn sampler, Elizabeth Winsley Power 1853 Whilst we may think that many girls and young women made samplers in the 18th and 19th ...... cont.
		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.
		Quorn ladies outing, 1950s? Little is known about this photograph, other than it is Quorn ladies group enjoying an ...... cont.
		Quorn Cricket Club, 2nd XI, 1910 The names that accompanied the photograph are given below. Left to right: Back row: W ...... cont.
		W E Cooke - A Cottage Yard at Quorn, in colour This picture, 'A Cottage Yard at Quorn', was by Quorn artist W E Cooke, but this version ...... cont.
		WW1 Postcard from Quorn This postcard was sent by Alice Hallam to her brother William, when he was on the Western ...... cont.
		Alice Mabel Hallam 1897 to 1989 Alice Hallam lived in Quorn at 32 Wood Lane, all her life. She never married having lost ...... cont.
		William Edward Hallam 1898 to 1984 William Hallam lived in Quorn at 32 Wood Lane, all his life. He fought in WW1 and was ...... cont.
		Sam and Eliza Hallam, Quorn, 1900 Sam Hallam in this photograph was born in Leicester, but came to Quorn with his family ...... cont.
		William Wilders – Carrier of Quorn William Wilders was born in Quorn in 1838 and died in 1893. We are lucky to have this ...... cont.
		Joe Burton enjoys a pint! Joe Burton was a well-known Quorn character, having fought in the Zulu War, the Boer War, ...... cont.
		W E Cooke - A Cottage Yard at Quorn This picture, 'A Cottage Yard at Quorn', was by Quorn artist W E Cooke and appeared in ...... cont.
		W E Cooke - A cottage at Quorn This picture was by Quorn artist W E Cooke and appeared on the title page of his first ...... cont.
		William Harris Inglesant, Quorn, died 1912 aged 101 This article about the life of William Harris Inglesant appeared in the Quorndon Magazine ...... cont.
		Farnham family Victorian livery buttons Upper class Families in Victorian Britain would have employed many servants, and the ...... cont.
		Quorn Building Society Quorn Building Society, or as it was originally known, the Quorndon and Neighbourhood ...... cont.
		Jack Farnham (1890 to 1930) John Adrian George Farnham, known as Jack, was born in Quorn on 5th March 1890. He was ...... cont.
		Enjoying the sunshine! Quorn 1920s This photograph was taken on the Greens at Barrow, which is within the parish of Quorn, ...... cont.
		St Bartholomew’s Primary School football team, about 1955 When St Bartholomew’s Primary School was located on School Lane, they did not have their ...... cont.
		St Bartholomew’s Primary School, summer 1951 Back row, left to right: Teacher probably Miss Bradshaw, then, probably Denise Gretton, ...... cont.
		St Barts Primary School football team, 1957-58 St Bartholomew’s Primary School under 11s football team, 1957-58 – Cup and league ...... cont.
		Football – Quorn match win! 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952 Quorn Recover From Shock Quorn 2, ...... cont.
		Tom Gartshore from Quorn – Fishing advice, 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952 They only catch ‘tiddlers’ today - ...... cont.
		A wedding in Quorn, 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952 Cinema staff saw the bride Women ...... cont.
		Collecting leaves on High Street, Quorn, October 1952 This great picture appeared in the Loughborough Monitor on Friday 17th October 1952, when ...... cont.
		Deer roaming around the White Horse in Quorn! 1988 During road works near the White Horse pub in Quorn in 1988, ancient deer bones were ...... cont.
		The Wardle family, Farnham Street, Quorn Following on from artefact 1934, we have four more photographs relating to the Wardle ...... cont.
		65 Loughborough Road, Quorn For many years 65 Loughborough Road marked the extent of housing development in Quorn on ...... cont.
		Herbert Wardle, Farnham Street, Quorn The Wardle family lived at 27 Farnham Street, Quorn, from about 1919 to the 1940s. ...... cont.
		Quorn in WW2 – The girls who listened Beaumanor Hall at Old Woodhouse was one of the largest Y stations, or listening stations ...... cont.
		A Quorn boxer, managed by Tiger Allen, 1930s This unusual studio photograph shows a boxer with the initials TS. The reverse of the ...... cont.
		1834 letter from Ann Carter, Quorn, to the Mayor of New York In 2015 a letter came up for sale which was written in 1834 by 43 year old Ann Carter ...... cont.
		Quorn Mills Bowls Club, post 1931 This photograph of Quorn Mills Bowls Club has been sent to the museum team by Pam ...... cont.
		A History of 27 Meeting Street, Quorn 27 Meeting Street is one of the oldest properties in Quorn, and a shorter version of this ...... cont.
		Thomas Rawlins Grammar School, Quorn, Senior Speech Day November 1964 Below is the Senior School Speech Day programme for Rawlins in November 1964. It was ...... cont.
		Vena Grain, 1895 to 1989. Oral history interview from 1985 Vena Grain was born in Leicester on 21st February 1895, and the family moved to Quorn in ...... cont.
		A brief history of Soar House, Soar Road, Quorn Soar House is situated on Soar Road in Quorn. Many of the large houses in the village ...... cont.
		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.
		The death of Joseph Adcock, Quorn 1867 Joseph Bexton Adcock was born in Quorn in 1827, and died on 27th December 1867 from ...... cont.
		Press Cutting, 6th May 1955 - Quorn Bowlers Open the Season The first wood of the new season is sent down on a Quorn green. The scene is Quorn Mills ...... cont.
		Quorn Grammar School (Rawlins) Admissions Register, 1900 to 1914 Rawlins School Admissions Register from September 1900 to September 1914, contains 242 ...... cont.
		Meeting Street, Quorn As the years go by and as Quorn Village On-line Museum continues to grow, it becomes ...... cont.
		The Farnham Monuments: Myths, Legends and Family Fables This research was carried out by Moira Ackers from Loughborough, and published by The ...... cont.
		Pillings Lock, Quorn Pillings Lock is in the Parish of Quorn, to the north-east of the village itself, and is ...... cont.
		Video: Wrights - Weaving Narrow Fabrics in Quorn since 1860 Wrights factory has been in Quorn since the 1860s and continues to thrive today. This ...... cont.
		Letter from Henry Balguy, from boarding school at Quorn, September 1835 During the 19th century there were many private schools in Quorn. Sometimes they would ...... cont.
		Quorn photograph taken between 1905 and 1910 This photograph was taken by William Shuttlewood in Quorn between 1905 and 1910. ...... cont.
		Two photographs from Quorn in WW2 These two photographs were taken during WW2 in 1942, in the back garden of 7 Mansfield ...... cont.
		Jack and Doris Newton from Quorn These photographs taken in 1922 are of John Aaron Newton (Jacko') and Doris Miriam ...... cont.
		W E Cooke – A Quorn artist, 1843 to 1916 William Edward Cooke was a professional artist and art teacher. He was born in Derby in ...... cont.
		Picture by W E Cooke – Coal Wharf, 1879 This picture of the Coal Wharf on Soar Road in Quorn, was drawn in 1879 by local ...... cont.
		Picture by W E Cooke – Farm Yard at Quorndon The exact location of this farmyard is unfortunately not known, although it is in Quorn ...... cont.
		Sampler – Rosanna Goulding, Quorndon, 1884 This article appeared in the spring edition of The Quorndon magazine in 2015. It tells ...... cont.
		St Bartholomew's National School, 1908/1909 Very little was known about this photograph until artefact 1881 came to light. It shows ...... cont.
		Stafford Orchard Park, 1936, Sarah Farley This wonderful photograph was taken in 1936 on Stafford Orchard, the park in the middle ...... cont.
		Sampler – Rosanna Goulding, Quorndon, 1884 One of the most amazing pieces of Quorn history! This intricately stitched sampler was ...... cont.
		Food production from allotments and rabbits - WW1 The two newspaper cuttings below reflect the efforts being made in Quorn during WW1, to ...... cont.
		Sudden Death at Quorn Adult School - April 1905 Loughborough Herald - 13th April 1905 On Sunday morning, shortly after the opening of ...... cont.
		Quorn Wood Tragedy - Gamekeeper found shot - March 1917 Loughborough Herald - March 15th 1917 A sad tragedy was discovered in Quorn Wood on ...... cont.

Total: 770 artefacts returned over 8 pages

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