Some museum artefacts have information missing. In some cases we are confident that a photo is of Quorn or is related to Quorn, but we cannot locate the village area or buildings, or perhaps people in the photo are unknown.
As you view the collection, artefacts with missing information will be highlighted, and we also list them below. If you can contribute information about any of these items, please contact us.
| | White Hart, Quorn, matchbox label, 1980s This is a matchbox label, from a box of promotional matches, either given out or sold at ...... cont.
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| | Inaugural Meeting of Quorn Rawlins Old Girls Association, 1956 Thomas Rawlins Grammar School became girls only in 1948 and in 1956 an Old Girls ...... cont.
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| | William Henry Fewkes, 1861 to 1930 The Fewkes family can trace its roots in Quorn back to the early 1600s and may well have ...... cont.
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| | Barrow on Soar and Quorn Midland Railway Station The old, now demolished, Midland Railway Station was very firmly in the Parish of Barrow ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Lodge Farm, 1952 The author of the following piece which appeared in the press in 1952, is describing a ...... cont.
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| | H.M.S QUORN Bell – Quorn Community Library Originating in the Royal Navy, it is a custom to baptise a child under the ship's bell; ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School panoramic photograph, 1965 This 'whole school' photograph was taken at Rawlins School in 1965, when it was an all ...... cont.
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| | Postcard of Quorn St Bartholomew’s Church, pre 1910 This is a slightly unusual view of the Church and shows five boys standing among the ...... cont.
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| | The WW2 ‘kids’ from Freehold Street, Quorn Taken in the early 2000s (probably about 2007), this is a photograph of some of the ...... cont.
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| | A fete on Stafford Orchard, 1950s Three ladies enjoying the sunshine at a fete on Stafford Orchard. The one in the middle ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Emmanuel Football Club 1908/09 The first mention of Quorn Emmanuel Football Club can be found in 1902. It played in the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn National School, approx 1892 Loughborough Echo
Friday 28th November 1952
Are You On This Picture?
Quorn Mixed – ...... cont.
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| | Quorn National School 1900 Loughborough Echo
Friday 19 December 1952
QUORN NATIONAL SCHOOL 1900
The above ...... cont.
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| | Thomas Rawlins Grammar School, early 1920s Little is known about this photograph of Thomas Rawlins Grammar School that was probably ...... cont.
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| | Quorn folk, Church Rooms, 1940s Very little is known about this photograph of Quorn folk, taken outside the Church Rooms, ...... cont.
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| | Adnett’s grocery shop, High Street, Quorn Ernest and Joan Adnett ran a grocery shop in Quorn, at what is now (2022) Ferrari’s ...... cont.
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| | German magazine, Quorn POW Camp, edition 2, late August 1947 During 2021 three magazines turned up on a flea market stall in Germany which were ...... cont.
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| | German magazine, Quorn POW Camp, edition 3, early September 1947 During 2021 three magazines turned up on a flea market stall in Germany which were ...... cont.
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| | Rawlins Grammar School, about 1910 Rawlins Grammar School opened in 1892 and moved to its present site in 1897. This ...... cont.
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| | A Quorn football team, circa 1919 This photograph is a football team taken in Quorn. The player on the back row, (second ...... cont.
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| | Card from Quorn Prisoner of War Camp to Germany, 17th April 1947 Quorn POW camp was based in the grounds of Quorn House, with the entrance on Wood Lane, ...... cont.
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| | 1935 Silver Jubilee Seat petition In May 1935, King George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee was celebrated in Quorn with ...... cont.
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| | Old Quorn residents - George and Mary Gartshore George and Mary Gartshore were born in 1830, married in 1854 and moved to Quorn in about ...... cont.
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| | Gartshore family, summer fete, Stafford Orchard, 1960s A summer fete on Stafford Orchard in the 1960s, with George and Olive Gartshore and their ...... cont.
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| | M. Wright and Sons factory, Quorn, approx 1880 Fifteen men standing outside M. Wright and Sons factory in about 1880, possibly a little ...... cont.
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| | Opening of Quorn Football Club new ground, 1960 Loughborough Echo, Friday, September 2nd, 1960.
QUORN F.C. - NEW GROUND AND ...... cont.
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| | Manor House Hotel, Quorn The Manor House Hotel on Woodhouse Road opposite the railway station, was built for the ...... cont.
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| | M Wright and Sons, Quorn - Centenary Celebration, 1960 - Programme M Wright and Sons, elastic webbing manufacturers, started in Leicester in 1860 and moved ...... cont.
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| | 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.
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| | St Barts Primary School football team, 1959-60 St Bartholomew’s Primary School football team, 1959-60.
Teachers, left to right: Jack ...... cont.
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| | Friends of Markfield – Quorn Gala Day Football Tournament During the 1960’s and 70’s the people of Quorn supported the Markfield Hospital by ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Village Event, early/mid 1950s A village event in the early/mid 1950s. The gentleman holding the darts aloft is former ...... cont.
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| | Dedication of Lime Trees, Quorn, May 1952 In May 1952 Quorn dedicated an avenue of lime trees in Stafford Orchard, planted in ...... cont.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | 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.
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| | M Wright and Sons, Quorn – Winding Room Wright’s factory has been in Quorn since 1870. This photograph of the winding room is ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Ladies in Skegness, 1953 Four Quorn ladies enjoying the sunshine in ‘Skeggie’, in coronation year 1953.
Only ...... cont.
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| | Quorn St Bartholomew's National School, 1910 In the first part of last century, what we know today as primary schools kept children ...... cont.
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| | Robert Sutton, Quorn Family Butcher This photograph was taken on High Street in Quorn around 1920, and shows Robert and Gerty ...... cont.
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| | Home Guard, including Quorn Platoon, 1942 This photograph of the Home Guard was taken in the garden of the Bulls Head (now the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31
Rosières, the Somme, France
A Canadian ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France
George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34
Ypres, Belgium
Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Ernest was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21
Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Marrying a Quorn girl
Charles ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20
Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France
Ernest was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33
Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28
France
A difficult start in life
Walter was ...... cont.
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Total: 414 artefacts returned over 9 pages