Thursday 7th December 2023  

Quorn ladies outing, 1950s?

Little is known about this photograph, other than it is Quorn ladies group enjoying an organised outing!

Can you help in adding to the list of names, providing a date/location or saying what group it was?

1 – Hilda Squires
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6 – Mrs Alice Rennocks
7 – Mrs Smith
8 – Mrs Birch (kept a sweet shop on Freehold Street)
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10 – Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Birkin,
11 – Emily Holmes (73 Loughborough Rd, Quorn)
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13 – Mrs Phyllis Warren
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15 – Mrs Allen (mother of Tommy Allen who ran a sweet shop on Station Road)
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19 – Mrs Burton (caretaker at village school 1950s.)
20 – Mrs Gladys Clarke
21 – Mrs Lucy Sutton (mother of the footballing Suttons)
22 – Mrs Hickling
23 – Thought to be Mrs Doris James who lived at 50 Station Rd. Interesting to note that Dr Shirrefs and Dr Gray from Barrow used to hold a surgery for their Quorn patients in her front room at lunchtimes twice a week!
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26 – ? from Freehold Street
27 - ? from Freehold Street

Missing information: Can you help with more names, a date and/or location or saying what group it was? Please email us at: team2023@quornmuseum.com Submitted on: 2017-07-18 Submitted by: Anthony Plummer, additional names from Ken Brown, Judith Archdale, Jennifer Warren Artefact ID: 1987 Artefact URL: www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=1987 Print: View artefact in printer-friendly page or just on its own (new browser tab).