 |  | 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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 | | 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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 | | Alfred Thomas Warbis – The Old Bulls Head, Quorn
Alfred Thomas Warbis worked in advertising, but in addition produced 1,000s of pen and ...... cont.
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| | Rawlins School Headteachers and Badges/Logos 1892 to 2023
Rawlins School has had 10 headteachers/principals and six badges/logos between its ...... 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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 | | Quorn Cross, early 1960s
Although this view of Quorn looking from Meeting Street up towards Quorn Cross is easily ...... 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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 | | Loughborough Road – Then and Now
This is Loughborough Road, standing opposite Barrow Road, looking from Quorn towards ...... cont.
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 | | Leicester Road floods – Then and Now
The older photograph is difficult to date, but probably 1930s. The view, taken from the ...... cont.
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 | | The Manor House Hotel, Woodhouse Road, Quorn
The Manor House Hotel on Woodhouse Road opened in 1899, the year after the opening of the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Fields Farm History – The Hickling family and farm sale in 1974
Quorn Fields Farm was situated down a long track off Barrow Road, now known as Flesh ...... 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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| | Condemned to Death for Sheep Stealing, 1828
On 9th August 1828 the Leicester Chronicle reported that William Rudkin aged 47, his son ...... 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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 | | The Moss family in Quorn and Quorn Fields/Lodge Farm
The milk bottle below was dug up from an old tip in Quorn and dates from the 1920s. It is ...... cont.
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| | Stafford Orchard Park, Quorn - Over 100 years as a recreation ground
The Stafford Orchard is often described as Quorn’s ‘Jewel in the Crown’. Its origins are ...... cont.
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| | Tragedy at a Quorn bus stop, 1966
Dennis Marchant, with the help of the Loughborough Echo and the Quorn Parish Council ...... cont.
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 | | John Davys Cradock 1845 - 1921
John Davys Cradock was born in Woodhouse in 1845 but by 1851 the family had moved to ...... 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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 | | W E Cooke - In Buddon Wood, Quorndon
This picture, 'In Buddon Wood, Quorndon', from the 1890s, was scanned from an original ...... cont.
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 | | High Street, Quorn, 1920s
Looking down High Street towards Quorn Cross in the 1920s.
The area on the left was ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Hall Lodge, off Meynell Road, early 1900s
There are two former lodges to Quorn Hall and this one is situated off Meynell Road. ...... cont.
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| | Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, Master of the Quorn Hunt, 1893-1898
Passing the Farley Way, Loughborough Road junction in Quorn one can hardly help but ...... cont.
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| | A Tribute to the American Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne, 3rd May 1952
Quorn Local History Group encourage members to take on projects and to research areas of ...... cont.
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 | | Floods in Soar Road, Quorn
The first of these two photographs was taken in 1979 after the River Soar had flooded ...... cont.
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Total: 50 artefacts returned
