This section includes a fascinating miscellany of artefacts including maps, plans, pottery, coins, tokens, river views, bridges and much more. Dip in and enjoy!
 |  | Bessie Dakin, Quorn – Sampler and Postcard
Bessie Dakin was born in 1885 and moved to Quorn with her family in 1906, where she lived ...... cont.
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 | | Woolly rhinoceros remains found at Quorn
In 1938 the complete jaw of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered in the Quorn gravel pits ...... cont.
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 | | HMS Quorn bell - Ella Morag Stewart, baptism
The bell of the Navy’s HMS Quorn was donated to Quorn village when the ship was ...... cont.
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 | | Hot air balloon lands in Warwick Avenue, Quorn, 1986
Do you remember the day in May 1986 when a hot air balloon landed in Warwick Avenue? It ...... cont.
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 | | Moated Medieval Hunting Lodge, Quorn
Off Chaveney Road, along the public footpath by Mill Fields Farm is Quorn’s only national ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn’s Medieval Deer Park - Area
There was no settlement of Quorn (or Quorndon) when the Domesday Book was produced in ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn’s Medieval Deer Park - Evidence
There was no settlement of Quorn (or Quorndon) when the Domesday Book was produced in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Brook/Buddon Brook/River Lin - what’s in a name?
The brook that flows from the Quorn parish boundary at Swithland Reservoir and passes ...... cont.
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| | Buddon Wood – Quorn’s lost jewel
Buddon Wood once covered ¾ of a square mile, but due to quarrying, it is now reduced to a ...... cont.
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 | | Quorndon Sauce
This Quorndon Sauce label is designed to be hung round the neck of a bottle. It is made ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Cross 1988, paintings by Kevon Thompson
These two wonderful pictures were painted in Acrylics by Kevon Thompson from Barrow upon ...... cont.
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 | | Iron Age and Roman evidence in Quorn
During the summer of 2023, archaeologists excavated an area near the end of Flesh Hovel ...... 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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 | | Caves Field, Quorn, ridge and furrow 2022
This photograph of Caves Field (the cricket field), taken during the heatwave of August ...... cont.
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| | German magazine, Quorn POW Camp, edition 1, early 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 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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 | | 22 High Street, Quorn - discovery behind a wall!
In September 2021, local optometrist Mohammed Bhojani was having some alterations ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn, Hunt Class railway engine
Over the years Quorn has given its name to many products; from ships to custard and ...... cont.
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 | | Quorndon - An extraordinary trout!
Loughborough Monitor - Thursday 21st December 1865
QUORNDON - TROUT EXTRAORDINARY
A ...... cont.
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 | | The Quorn Ranch Company, North America
Introduction
The Quorn Ranch(e) Company was an English syndicate formed in 1886 ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Milestone
On the Leicester Road between the pavement and the fence stands a little-known link with ...... cont.
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| | HMS Quorn
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Quorn as part of the ‘Hunt Class’. ...... cont.
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 | | Quorndon Embossing Presses
These two embossing presses were found during the 2020 Parish Council office move from ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Australia – Heritage Walk
Quorn in South Australia is very proud of its heritage, and the museum team were ...... cont.
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Total: 115 artefacts returned over 5 pages
