 |  | Discovery of a WW2 US 82nd Airborne ID tag in Quorn
A US Army Identification Plate for Robert M Robinson found in a garden Quorn
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 | | Letter from a Quorn Prisoner of War, 1st December 1947
Early in 1943, the Quorn House stable block and several acres of park land were ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn House Civil Defence Convalescent Home, WW2
In World War Two Quorn House was loaned to be used as a Civil Defence convalescent home. ...... cont.
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 | | Drawing of Buddon Brook/Quorn Memorial Gardens, late 1980s
An atmospheric drawing of Buddon Brook and part of the Memorial Gardens by Diane Ross ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Scouts – Royal Artillery Bugle
This bugle belongs to Quorn Scouts, but nobody (so far) can remember it being used. ...... cont.
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 | | Original Plans and Sections for Swithland Reservoir 1889/90
The pdf file below contains images of a large book (31 ins x 23 ins or 79cm x 57.5cm), ...... cont.
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 | | 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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 | | Quorn Griswold Workers 1896
This item appeared in the newspaper in the second half of last century, but refers to ...... 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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 | | Sale of Quorn Fields Farm 1933
Quorn Fields Farm was situated down a long track off Barrow Road, now known as Flesh ...... 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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 | | Wright’s presentation watch, Miss Ellen Ball 1953
Ellen Ball, known as Nell or Nellie, was born in Quorn in 1888. She worked at Wright’s ...... cont.
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 | | John Mellor Cars, Wood Lane, Quorn
John Mellor Cars had premises in Loughborough and Quorn. The Quorn garage was on the ...... cont.
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 | | A letter from Quorn Parish Council regarding the US 82nd Airborne Division
Below is a letter from the Quorn Parish Council, dated 20th September 1944 and addressed ...... cont.
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| | The Gartshores of Quorn - Restoring gravestones
The attached document was written by David Kirkby, a descendent of the Gartshores of ...... 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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| | M Wright and Sons, WW2, producing military webbing for the USA
M Wright and Sons Ltd of Quorn produced American webbing alongside British military ...... cont.
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 | | Two Crescent Hosiery Co. Ltd, Quorn
Two Crescent Hosiery Co. Ltd was a hosiery company founded by George Farnham of Quorn ...... cont.
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| | Quorn D-Day 80th Commemoration - 2024
In 2023 Quorn Local History Group created a project fund to assist groups or individuals ...... cont.
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 | | A Barge from Cupitt’s Coal Wharf, Quorn; at Mountsorrel Wharf, 1908
Explaining the Pictures
Photographs 1 and 2 were taken at Mountsorrel Wharf in ...... 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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| | Rural District of Barrow upon Soar - Official Guide
This booklet ‘Rural District of Barrow upon Soar - Official Guide’ was published during ...... cont.
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 | | Motoring Fatality, 1930 Bull in the Hollow, Quorn
The Leicester Mail, Friday April 4th 1930
Terrible Motoring Fatality Near Quorn ...... cont.
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 | | Then and Now – Floods in Quorn
The first photograph was taken in the early 1980s and shows Ruth Iley from Farnham Street ...... cont.
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 | | The exceptional Quorn floods of 1875
Although Quorn had always flooded, July 1875 saw the worst floods that the village had ...... cont.
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Total: 50 artefacts returned over 2 pages
