 |  | 1932/33 Quorn Wesleyan Football Team
Quorn Wesleyans were a forerunner of the current (2026) Quorn Football Club. According to ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Home Guard Final Bulletin no 39, 1st December 1944
On 14th May 1940, Anthony Eden, the Secretary for War created the Local Defence ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Home Guard Bulletin no 18, June 1942, Second Anniversary
On 14th May 1940, Anthony Eden, the Secretary for War created the Local Defence ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Home Guard – Certificate from the King
Eric George Worth joined the 'Quorn' Home Guard in 1941 and remained in the platoon until ...... cont.
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| | The servants of Quorn Hall – 1906
The Warner family purchased Quorn Hall in 1855 and lived there until 1919. In 1906 the ...... cont.
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 | | Godspell 1986, St Barts Primary School
At the end of the summer term in 1986, the fourth years (now called year 6) at St Barts ...... cont.
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 | | John Donaghue - posted to Quorn in 1940
Introduction
John Donaghue was a freelance journalist and war veteran who, after ...... cont.
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 | | Receipts – Quorndon Local Board and Barrow on Soar Poor Law Union
The two receipts below are dated 24th August 1868 and 8th March 1876 respectively. ...... cont.
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 | | Rawlins School panoramic photograph, 1931
This 'whole school' photograph was taken at Rawlins School in July 1931. At this time the ...... cont.
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 | | Timeline of Station Masters at Quorn & Woodhouse GCR/LNER Station – 1898 to 1963
The Great Central Railway opened fully in 1899, and was the last mainline railway to be ...... cont.
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 | | The Vicarage, Quorn 1906
This is a side view of what was the vicarage in 1906. It is now (2025) in the grounds of ...... cont.
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 | | 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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 | | Ivy Rennocks – Wright’s Commanders Band, 1930s
Faith Ivy Rennocks (known as Ivy) was born in 1916 and lived with her parents Arthur and ...... 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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 | | 1935 Jubilee Celebrations, Quorn – What a float!
This picture was taken at the time of the Silver Jubilee of George V, when Quorn ...... cont.
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 | | PC Thomas Henry Thornton, a Quorn Police Constable
The name PC Thornton crops up in many Quorn newspaper articles between 1899 and 1923. ...... 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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| | The History of Quorn Gas Works, the Brinks, established 1854
There is little sign today of the Quorn Gas Works that were situated on the Brinks in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn, the Farnhams and a tangled tale - The Field, 1986
George Farnham was the last member of the historic family to reside in Quorn and would ...... cont.
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 | | Charles Clutsom – A life in the elastic webbing industry
Charles Clutsom was born in Wales in 1886 after which the family moved to Norfolk and ...... cont.
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 | | Winifred Ogston Greenaway of the ATS, Quorn in WW2
Extract from an Imperial War Museum Oral History Interview
Winifred Ogston ...... cont.
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 | | Postcard from Lord Lonsdale in 1895 about Quorn Hunt
Hugh Cecil Lowther was the 5th Earl of Lonsdale and Master of the Quorn Hunt from 1893 to ...... cont.
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 | | Memories of Outdoor Work for M W Wright & Sons by Marlene Bradshaw nee Lidierth
Marlene Lidierth grew up in Quorn in the 1950s and lived with her family at 33 Castledine ...... 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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 | | Opening of Quorn Cricket Club Pavilion in 1928
George Francis Farnham secured the future of Quorn’s cricket ground, Caves Field in 1926. ...... cont.
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 | | Corner of Woodhouse Road and Loughborough Road, Quorn, about 1905
Looking up Woodhouse Road from Loughborough Road, about 1905
The house on the right is ...... cont.
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 | | Station Road, Quorn, 1905
On the left is a very old cruck constructed building that was sadly demolished and ...... cont.
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 | | General William Booth in Quorn 1905
General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, driving through Quorn Cross on his ...... cont.
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 | | Richard Tunnecliffe – A photographer of Quorn
Richard Anthony Tunnecliffe from Seacombe, Wallasey on the Wirral was a keen and skilled ...... 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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 | | Poor facilities in Quorn, 1879
Quorn Village On-line Museum and Mountsorrel History Group have a great relationship, but ...... cont.
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| | The War Story of Edith Evelyn Guyver, née Binsley
Edith Evelyn Guyver née Binsley 1921-2001, was a ‘listener’ at Beaumanor Hall Y Station ...... cont.
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 | | Glass from the Pig and Whistle pub, Quorn
This etched half pint glass (look carefully!) is thought to date from the 1940s or 1950s ...... cont.
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 | | Apple Tree pub, Quorn
The Apple Tree pub started as a beer house, probably in the 1870s. The first positive ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Cricket Club shield/logo/badge
The Quorn Cricket Club shield/logo/badge was designed by local Quorn ‘lad’ Terry ...... cont.
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 | | Edward Handley Warner and Jessie Nancy Warner of Quorn Hall
Edward Handley Warner was born in Loughborough in 1850. His father (Edward Warner) owned ...... cont.
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 | | Lily Allen - One Hundred Years in Quorn
This article about Lily Allen was written by Kate Hutchinson in 2006, the year of Lily’s ...... cont.
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| | John Alfred Le Mesurier Hayward, Quorn Place, 1857 to 1922
In the chancel of St Bartholomew’s Church, in front of the altar, is a brass hanging lamp ...... cont.
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 | | Facers Timber Yard, fire 1985
On 5th November 1985 there was a huge fire at Facer’s timber yard on Meeting Street and ...... cont.
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 | | The Quorn Music Hall Society
In 1972, it was suggested to the Swimming Pool Committee, which had been formed to ...... cont.
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 | | The Blackies Sunday Shooting Group, late 1970s
This is a photograph of a group of Quorn guys and some of their friends, who were the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Swimming Pool - Opening Day Programme 1974
The pdf file below is the programme for the opening day of Quorn Swimming Pool on 11th ...... cont.
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 | | Huntsman’s Cottage, off Meynell Road, Quorn, 1906
This postcard is entitled Tom Firr’s Cottage, Quorn, 1906. Tom Firr was at one time the ...... cont.
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 | | US 82nd Airborne, 505th Division at Quorn
Officers of 82nd Airborne 505th, 3rd Battalion, Company I at Camp Quorn in 1944. ...... cont.
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| | Frank Facer and The Hall on the Green, Quorn
Harry Facer and his wife Ann moved to Quorn in the 1860s and had eleven children, so the ...... cont.
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 | | Floods – 1932, near One Ash, Quorn
This photograph of floods in the Soar Valley was kindly submitted by Nick Miller from ...... cont.
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 | | Medal re opening of Swithland Reservoir, Sept 1896
Where the medal came from
The medal below was issued on the opening of Swithland ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Excelsior FC – Leicestershire Shield runners up 1904/1905
The small shield below is inscribed:
“Leicestershire Shield 1904-5 Runners-Up” ...... cont.
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Total: 50 artefacts returned
