Friday 23rd October 2020  

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.

		Opening of Quorn Football Club new ground, 1960 Loughborough Echo, Friday, September 2nd, 1960. QUORN F.C. - NEW GROUND AND ...... cont.
		Upset in Quorn Urban District Council! The Illustrated Leicester Chronicle Saturday 24th April 1926 DESPICABLE ...... cont.
		M Wright and Sons, Quorn - Centenary Celebration, 1960 - Programme M Wright and Sons, elastic webbing manufacturers, started in Leicester in 1860 and moved ...... cont.
		Quorn House, 1886 Quorn House on Meeting Street was originally known as the Over Hall and was the seat of ...... cont.
		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.
		St Barts Primary School football team, 1959-60 St Bartholomew’s Primary School football team, 1959-60. Teachers, left to right: Jack ...... cont.
		Phyllis Field (nee Broom), 1917 - 2007 Phyllis Broom was born at what is now 37 Farnham Street in Quorn and lived in the village ...... cont.
		Quorn Village Event, early/mid 1950s A village event in the early/mid 1950s. The gentleman holding the darts aloft is former ...... cont.
		William Henry Norman (PC Billy Norman) 1889 to 1958 William Henry (Billy) Norman was born on 29th March 1889 in Oadby. After distinguished ...... cont.
		PC Billy Norman – served in Quorn 1930 to 1944 In the 1980s and 1990s Harry Limbert, who lived in Quorn talked to a lot of the older ...... cont.
		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.
		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.
		Thompson and Gamble, builders of the Cradock Drive housing development Who were Thompson and Gamble? Thompson and Gamble were a well-known ...... cont.
		The QUORN Tool and Cutter Grinder Since its launch in 1974, the Quorn Tool and Cutter Grinder has achieved legendary status ...... cont.
		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.
		12 Freehold Street, Quorn – Shop and Off-Licence The first of these photographs was taken before 1910 and shows Joseph Birkin standing ...... cont.
		Quorn Ladies in Skegness, 1953 Four Quorn ladies enjoying the sunshine in ‘Skeggie’, in coronation year 1953. Only ...... cont.
		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.
		Robert Sutton, Quorn Family Butcher This photograph was taken on High Street in Quorn around 1920, and shows Robert and Gerty ...... cont.
		William Freer born 1830 in Quorn, died 17th February 1887, Denbighshire William Freer was born in Quorn in 1830. By the 1850s he was a kennel man for Quorn Hunt, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31 Rosières, the Somme, France A Canadian ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34 Ypres, Belgium Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27 Ypres, Belgium Early years Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21 Mesopotamia (Iraq) Marrying a Quorn girl Charles ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin Died 25th September 1916, aged 19 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France Life ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin Died 25th September 1915, aged 21 Ypres, Belgium Life before the war Frank ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw Died 29th June 1915, aged 17 Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20 Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33 Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18 La Bassée Canal, France Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin Died 14th July 1917, aged 23 St Leger, the Somme, France Before the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28 France A difficult start in life Walter was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27 Hooge, Belgium George was one of five children. ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton Died 27th April 1917, aged 22 Loos, France Prior to the war Albert Burton was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40 Passchendaele, Belgium Growing up in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Early years Although Chapman is ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke Died 31st August 1918, aged 22 Bailleul, France Hilary Calvert Clarke was born ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20 Vlamertinghe, Belgium Before the war William ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington Died 28th January 1915, aged 28 Estaires, Northern France Pre-war days John ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft Died 20th September 1915, aged 29 Ypres, Belgium Walter Daft was the youngest ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James William Dockray Died 20th July 1918, aged 19 France The Dockray family moved to Quorn from ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Facer Died 9th April 1918, aged 18 Loos, France A well-known family in Quorn Facer ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Fewkes Died 26th September 1916, aged 48 The Somme, France A very old Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Cox Flanders Died 18th May 1916, aged 20 Mesopotamia, Iraq Family background William Cox ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Peer Flanders Died 25th September 1916, aged 21 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Fletcher Died 25th September 1918, aged 34 Sorel-le-Grand, the Somme, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edward Gamble Died 16th August 1917, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Gamble is a well-known name in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Albert Gartshore Died 1st September 1916, aged 24 Bienvillers, France Family history George ...... cont.

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