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.

		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.
		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.
		Alice Mabel Hallam 1897 to 1989 Alice Hallam lived in Quorn at 32 Wood Lane, all her life. She never married having lost ...... cont.
		WW1 Postcard from Quorn This postcard was sent by Alice Hallam to her brother William, when he was on the Western ...... 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 at Quorn This picture was by Quorn artist W E Cooke and appeared on the title page of his first ...... 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.
		William Harris Inglesant, Quorn, died 1912 aged 101 This article about the life of William Harris Inglesant appeared in the Quorndon Magazine ...... cont.
		Quorn Building Society Quorn Building Society, or as it was originally known, the Quorndon and Neighbourhood ...... cont.
		Farnham family Victorian livery buttons Upper class Families in Victorian Britain would have employed many servants, and the ...... cont.
		Jack Farnham (1890 to 1930) John Adrian George Farnham, known as Jack, was born in Quorn on 5th March 1890. He was ...... cont.
		St Bartholomew’s Primary School, summer 1951 Back row, left to right: ?, ?, ?, John Commons, ?, Roger Sutton, Valerie Dowding, ...... 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.
		Enjoying the sunshine! Quorn 1920s This photograph was taken on the Greens at Barrow, which is within the parish of Quorn, ...... cont.
		St Barts Primary School football team, 1957-58 St Bartholomew’s Primary School under 11s football team, 1957-58 – Cup and league ...... cont.
		A wedding in Quorn, 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952 Cinema staff saw the bride Women ...... cont.
		Tom Gartshore from Quorn – Fishing advice, 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952 They only catch ‘tiddlers’ today - ...... cont.
		Football – Quorn match win! 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952 Quorn Recover From Shock Quorn 2, ...... 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.
		A History of 27 Meeting Street, Quorn 27 Meeting Street is one of the oldest properties in Quorn, and this article about the ...... cont.
		Quorn Mills Bowls Club, post 1931 This photograph of Quorn Mills Bowls Club has been sent to the museum team by Pam ...... 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.
		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.
		Jack and Doris Newton from Quorn These photographs taken in 1922 are of John Aaron Newton (Jacko') and Doris Miriam ...... cont.
		Two photographs from Quorn in WW2 These two photographs were taken during WW2 in 1942, in the back garden of 7 Mansfield ...... 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 – Farm Yard at Quorndon The exact location of this farmyard is unfortunately not known, although it is in Quorn ...... 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.
		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.

Total: 725 artefacts returned over 15 pages

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