 |  | The Gas House, 106 Leicester Road, Quorn, 1961
This rare photograph of the 'Gas House' on Leicester Road was taken in 1961 by the Brown ...... cont.
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 | | A Brief History of the Great Central Railway at Quorn
The photograph below was taken on Quorn Station in 1959.
The engine standing in the ...... cont.
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 | | Great Central Railway - Quorn Station
These photographs were taken at Quorn Station.
The first photograph was taken in 2011 ...... cont.
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 | | Charles & Spurr - 1968
An advertisement from 1968. Can anybody recall this business?
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 | | Wright's children's party - 1972
Loughborough Echo - 14th January 1972
About 40 children had a grand time in the works ...... cont.
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 | | Mr Jack Penfold of Quorn retires
Loughborough Echo - 4th February 1977
50 years in the Mason's trade
A career ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's Christmas Party
Wright's elastic and webbing factory has been a major employer in Quorn since the 1800s. ...... cont.
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 | | Advertising Watch Key -Thomas Lucas, Watchmaker and Jeweller, Quorn
This beautifully made little watch key is just 4cm (1.5 inches) long and turns smoothly ...... cont.
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 | | Leicester Road, The Gas House - then and now
The older picture was taken on Leicester Road in the 1930s. It is looking up from what is ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's Military Webbing WW2
During the first and second world wars Wrights were one of the largest suppliers of ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's Military Webbing WW2
During the first and second world wars Wrights were one of the largest suppliers of ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's Military Webbing WW2
During the first and second world wars Wrights were one of the largest suppliers of ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Gas Works - Early Days
Today, most of us like to think of Quorn as a large, but rural village. However in the ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Gas Works 1960s
Quorn Gas Works on Leicester Road (where The Brinks is now), finished producing gas in ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn by-pass stops business and housing plans inquiry told - 1960
Loughborough Monitor - December 9th 1960
Uncertainty about a proposed by-pass at ...... cont.
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 | | Opening of Fish & Chip shop - 1968
12th January 1968 – Loughborough Echo
Quorn Fish and Chip shop
Tuesday of this week ...... cont.
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 | | Advertisement - 1959
An advert for Robertshaw wool shop.
This was the business of Norah Robertshaw which ...... cont.
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| | Quorn man killed on railway track - failed to hear workmate's warning
Loughborough Echo - 19th September 1958
A 71 years old Quorn platelayer stepped clear ...... cont.
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 | | Ninety years old and cultivates 1,000 square yards of garden.
Loughborough Echo - 17th August 1945
Fine record of Quorn man
Mr William Paget, of ...... cont.
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| | Buddon Wood burns for three days - wildlife losses feared.
Loughborough Echo - 16th July 1976
Local firemen tackled their toughest job of the ...... cont.
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 | | Hearse/Bier made by Joseph Hand on Freehold Street – More information needed!
Quorn Village On-line Museum has been approached about the hearse/bier pictured below. ...... cont.
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| | Death of Mr Aubrey Gamble of Quorn
4th October 1974 - Loughborough Echo
Death of Mr A P Gamble of Quorn
On Friday ...... cont.
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 | | High Street Advert from 1959
An advertisment for Aylward and Son, television engineers. It is interesting to note the ...... cont.
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 | | Number 85 Meeting Street – Fanny Clarke’s Shop
As you walk down Meeting Street, you pass an unassuming house, one of a small terrace, ...... cont.
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| | Obscene Language at Quorn
Loughborough Herald - 22nd October 1896
Charles Marden, painter, Quorn, pleaded guilty ...... cont.
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| | An excise offence - 1898
Loughborough Herald - January 27th 1898
Wednesday – Before Rev R Burton (in the ...... cont.
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 | | Chiropodist Advertisement 1948
This was probably a home-based business.
Anthony Cove has added the following ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Fire Service - Copies of notes made by J Ward from manuscripts lent by Mr D Hack
These notes were provided by Don Wix. They were gathered as part of the research for ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Fire Service - The Town Fire Engine in 1862
These notes were provided by Don Wix. They were gathered as part of the research for ...... cont.
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 | | John Disney, boot and shoe maker, The Banks, Quorn
John Disney was born in 1870, his parents being John and Ann Disney, an established Quorn ...... cont.
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 | | Jack Payne
Jack (John William) Payne was born in Quorn in 1880, the son of Isaac and Ann Payne and ...... cont.
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 | | Sale of Farnham land and property 1892
The poster below from 1892 is advertising a unique sale of land and property, mainly in ...... cont.
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| | Substantial price reduction - Interview with gas engineer
Loughborough Echo 18th February 1938
The purchase of the Quorn and Mountsorrel Gas ...... cont.
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 | | Turning on gas for Quorn
Loughborough Echo 4th February 1938
The Mayor of Loughborough (Ald. A. Lacey) at the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn takes Loughboro gas - Mayor starts supply - An important event
Loughborough Echo 28th January 1938
An important event in the history of the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn News - Loughborough Echo
Loughborough Echo 2nd November 1945
C.H. Teagle, Chimney Sweep, Quorn, is starting in ...... cont.
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 | | Bus smash near Loughborough - remarkable escapes. 1930
Loughborough Echo - 31st October 1930
There were some remarkable escapes from death ...... cont.
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 | | Wood Lane garage - 1964
Advertisement from 1964.
The Wood Lane garage was situated on the corner of Wood Lane ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn firm's dinner-dance - 1959
Loughborough Monitor - 11th December 1959
Employees of the Quorn firm of M Wright and ...... cont.
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| | Quorn man in accident - wire snaps at quarry - 1935
Loughborough Echo - 4th January 1935
Mr James Stockwell, aged 60 years, of ...... cont.
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 | | Advertisement - 1959
One of a series of adverts from 1959. Hall's grocery shop obviously thought it was a cut ...... cont.
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 | | High Street shops - then and now
These photographs are taken looking from the direction of the cross towards Loughborough. ...... cont.
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 | | Life goes on during the floods
This photograph is taken looking up Station Road towards the cross and the Royal Oak. Mr ...... cont.
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 | | Frameworking Knitting in Quorn
This mechanised form of knitting started in the 1600s. By the late 1700s, 90% of the ...... cont.
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 | | Russ Dairies
Russ’s dairy was the larger of at least two dairies based in the village around the time ...... cont.
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 | | Sydney the postman - a lie-in at last
Loughborough Monitor - 22nd October 1971
These days Sydney Foulds can have a lie-in ...... cont.
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 | | Advertisement - 1959
This is one of a series of adverts from 1959. The Hurst was originally a large house on ...... cont.
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| | The Sanders story by Elizabeth Thompson (nee Sanders)
As far as I can learn the name of Sanders was introduced into the village of Quorn around ...... cont.
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 | | Portrait of Hugo Meynell - 1758
Hugo Meynell bought Quorn Hall in 1753 from Justinian Raynesford and became the second ...... cont.
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 | | Pumping House and Well House Swithland Reservoir - 11th Sept 1896
Interior view of the Pumping House at Swithland Water Works, showing part of the pump ...... cont.
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Total: 358 artefacts returned over 8 pages
