Tuesday 16th July 2024  

Quorn Families and People

Apart from the famous local names such as Farnham, Warner, Cradock and Firr; this site has plenty of interesting snippets concerning village folk. You can also use the search box on the upper right hand side to look for a family surname which interests you. We would like to expand this section, so if you can supply information about your family in Quorn, we would be pleased to publish it here.

		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.
		White Hart, Quorn, matchbox label, 1980s This is a matchbox label, from a box of promotional matches, either given out or sold at ...... cont.
		Quorn Griswold Workers 1896 This item appeared in the newspaper in the second half of last century, but refers to ...... cont.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		John Mellor Cars, Wood Lane, Quorn John Mellor Cars had premises in Loughborough and Quorn. The Quorn garage was on the ...... cont.
		The Gartshores of Quorn - Restoring gravestones The attached document was written by David Kirkby, a descendent of the Gartshores of ...... cont.
		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.
		Two Crescent Hosiery Co. Ltd, Quorn Two Crescent Hosiery Co. Ltd was a hosiery company founded by George Farnham of Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn D-Day 80th Commemoration - 2024 In 2023 Quorn Local History Group created a project fund to assist groups or individuals ...... cont.
		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.
		Motoring Fatality, 1930 Bull in the Hollow, Quorn The Leicester Mail, Friday April 4th 1930 Terrible Motoring Fatality Near Quorn ...... cont.
		The exceptional Quorn floods of 1875 Although Quorn had always flooded, July 1875 saw the worst floods that the village had ...... cont.
		Alfred Thomas Warbis – The Old Bulls Head, Quorn Alfred Thomas Warbis worked in advertising, but in addition produced 1,000s of pen and ...... cont.
		Rawlins School Headteachers and Badges/Logos 1892 to 2023 Rawlins School has had 10 headteachers/principals and six badges/logos between its ...... cont.
		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.
		Condemned to Death for Sheep Stealing, 1828 On 9th August 1828 the Leicester Chronicle reported that William Rudkin aged 47, his son ...... cont.
		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.
		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.
		Tragedy at a Quorn bus stop, 1966 Dennis Marchant, with the help of the Loughborough Echo and the Quorn Parish Council ...... cont.
		John Davys Cradock 1845 - 1921 John Davys Cradock was born in Woodhouse in 1845 but by 1851 the family had moved to ...... cont.
		Quorn Rawlins Grammar School panoramic photograph, 1965 This 'whole school' photograph was taken at Rawlins School in 1965, when it was an all ...... cont.
		W E Cooke - In Buddon Wood, Quorndon This picture, 'In Buddon Wood, Quorndon', from the 1890s, was scanned from an original ...... cont.
		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.

Total: 964 artefacts returned over 39 pages

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