 |  | House at Swithland Reservoir - 11th Sept 1896
Exterior view of the house at Swithland Reservoir Water Works. The house is part of a ...... cont.
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 | | Company bids for Quorn Country Club shares - 1963
Loughborough Monitor - 4th October 1963
Rexall drug and chemical company, ...... cont.
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 | | War Tribunal - 1917
Loughborough Herald - 19th March 1917
(Tribunals were held locally to consider ...... cont.
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| | Death of Mr Joseph Camm, of Quorn - 1896
Loughborough Herald - 3rd December 1896
On Monday evening, at the advanced age of 86 ...... cont.
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| | County Court - Howlett v Priestley 1928
Loughborough Monitor and Herald - 22nd December 1928
Motorist to pay damages - ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's factory advertisement from 1936
A advert for young girls to learn weaving, winding and warping.
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| | Messrs M Wright and Sons Ltd - £1,600 towards a “Spitfire”
Loughborough Echo - 7th March 1941
Letter from Lord Beaverbrook
The management and ...... cont.
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 | | Advertisement - 1934
George Cecil White (known as Cecil) was the son of George White, a very well known local ...... cont.
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 | | Advertisement - 1934
One of three adverts from 1934. Can anyone remember Heafford the outfitters? ...... cont.
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 | | Advertisement - 1934
One of three adverts from 1934 - Can anyone remember this hairdresser?
Anthony Cove ...... cont.
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 | | Jack Towell - 60 years at Wright's
Loughborough Monitor - 6th May 1977
After 60 years at Messrs M Wright and Sons Ltd., ...... cont.
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| | Village Hall as wartime canteen - 1941
Loughborough Echo - 3rd January 1941
The village hall, which Quorn people are ...... cont.
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| | County Court Facer v Marriott - 1918
Loughborough Herald - 12th September 1918
A Composite Claim.
At Loughborough County ...... cont.
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 | | Rex Bloore - Business boom after trial in village shop
Loughborough Monitor - 16th April 1971
Seven years ago a man called Rex Bloore had an ...... cont.
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 | | Death of Miss Lucy Facer - Distinguished public service
Loughborough Echo - 20th October 1972
The death of Miss Lucy Facer, of Quorn, on ...... cont.
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 | | Buddon quarry - 1964
A photograph of the spoil heap probably taken from Wood Lane in 1964
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 | | Quorn Golden Wedding - Mr and Mrs J T S Caunt
Loughborough Echo - 26th January 1968
A couple who have spent all their married life ...... cont.
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 | | Building the railway through Quorn c1895
The Great Central line through Quorn under construction
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 | | Train timetable - 1899
An example of a Great Centrail Railway timetable from 1899
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 | | Building the railway through Quorn c1895
Workers constructing the Great Central railway through Quorn
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 | | Shops next to the White Horse on Station Road - 1963
This photograph was found in the Leicester records office. On the back is hand written ...... cont.
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| | Jack Payne - obituary 1969
Loughborough Monitor - 17th January 1969
Cobbler began his working life at 10 as ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Work's Outing - 1873
Loughborough Advertiser - August 21st 1873
Treat for work people
On Friday last, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn hosiery industry and 'Webster's Whistle'
Until the early nineteenth century the hosiery industry was organised on the domestic ...... cont.
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| | Betsy Cook v William Sutton 1896
Loughborough Herald - 30th April 1896
County Court - Disputing too late.
Betsy ...... cont.
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| | Quorn employees in stocking trade strike - 1819
Leicester Chronicle - 17th August 1819
Stocking-making trade strike
The ...... cont.
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| | Quorn aids Belgian refugees - 1914
Loughborough Herald - 29th October 1914
Belgian refugees in Leicestershire
A large ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's Christmas Party
Loughborough Monitor - 26th December 1969.
The lady on right in the dark dress (on the ...... cont.
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 | | One Ash, Quorn
One Ash is situated within the Parish of Quorn, although it is beyond the main village ...... cont.
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 | | Postcard of The Thatch
This card was posted in November 1904.
This property was originally three cottages, ...... cont.
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 | | Quorndon shop token
This is thrupeny token (approximately 1.5p) for 'General Supply Stores, Quorn'. It dates ...... cont.
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 | | Boiler arriving at Wright's factory c1900
Boiler arriving at Wright's factory c1900
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 | | Quorn Hygienic Laundry in 1932.
Quorn Hygienic Laundry (steam laundry) in Barrow Road as it was in 1932.
For more ...... cont.
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 | | Corner of School Lane c1940s.
Mr Allen's cycle shop is to the right. Pratt's motor spirit pump stands by the roadside.
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 | | Steam engine - Swithland Reservoir
One of the three triple expansion steam engines in the coal-fired pumping station of ...... cont.
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 | | Swithland Reservoir
5th July 1894 - the ceremony for the cutting of the "first sod" in the presence of ...... cont.
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 | | Wright's Factory c1925
Girls standing at the end of their looms in the weaving shed about 1925.
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 | | Cottages on Wood Lane
The cottages were built by Wrights for their workers in 1893-94.
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 | | Gas works by 'The Brinks'
The gas works were demolished in 1966 and there is now a small housing development on the ...... cont.
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 | | Meeting Street
Formerly known as Wood Street or Wood Gate, this photograph shows the Blacksmith's Arms ...... cont.
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 | | Leicester Road
This photograph was probably taken in the 1920s. The sign in the foreground on the right ...... cont.
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 | | Fish and Chip shop - Station Road
This shop was part of a row of shops which were attached to the White Horse pub and ran ...... cont.
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 | | Shops to the side of the White Horse pub c1950
This postcard shows Dockray's Fish and chip shop (1 Station Road) and cottages at the ...... cont.
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 | | Corner Shop in Barrow Road 1902
Now Hannah's Chocolates [2010].
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 | | Carr's Boot Shop c1930
The shop stood on the corner of Leicester Road, opposite the Village Hall.
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 | | Quorn Mills Park Bowling Club
Quorn Mills Park Bowling Club opened in 1923. It was then only open to men, but the ...... cont.
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 | | Leicester Road and Wright's Mill
A photograph taken in the early years of the twentieth century, making the village look ...... cont.
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 | | Station Road looking towards the village centre c1905
Station Road was known as Barrow Street at this time and on the right is the corner of ...... cont.
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 | | Warners cottages on Soar Road
Cottages built for hunt workers on Soar Road by the Warner family of Quorn Hall.
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 | | Wright's Mill
Michael Wright came to Quorn from Leicester in 1870 to manufacture elastic webbing. By ...... cont.
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Total: 358 artefacts returned over 8 pages
