 |  | William Rodger Johnstone 1902-1990, 15 Chaveney Road
William Johnstone, his wife Mary Ellen and their children lived in Quorn for a short time ...... cont.
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 | | John Henry Boyer Warner, 2 September 1849 – 12 April 1891
JHB as he was known is remembered locally for selecting ‘Quorn’ as the name for a small ...... cont.
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 | | Rawlins Grammar School, about 1910
Rawlins Grammar School opened in 1892 and moved to its present site in 1897. This ...... cont.
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 | | King William IVth pub, Leicester Road, 1930s
A rare coloured photograph of the King William IVth pub, which stood on Leicester Road, ...... cont.
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 | | Joyce Chamberlain, Alma Terrace, 1940s
This photograph was taken on Alma Terrace off Meeting Street. Alma Terrace was a row of ...... cont.
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 | | Lily and Pauline Hudson, 72 Leicester Road, 1937
Frank Hudson, born in 1911, was brought up at Meadow View in Quorn, now 83 Barrow Road. ...... cont.
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 | | The Winterton family, Quorn
Top left
John Henry Winterton, was born in Quorn in 1872 and died in 1932. He married ...... cont.
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 | | Harold Crossley, Quorn Fields Farm
Harold Crossley was a hostler (ie he looked after the horses), employed by farmer Percy ...... cont.
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| | An unidentified WW2 airman in Quorn Baptist Churchyard
In 1940, during WW2, the body of a young airman was found floating in the English ...... cont.
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 | | Three Quorn businessmen
These three Quorn men are (left to right) Stan Orton, Tommy Howlett and Frank Hudson. ...... cont.
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 | | Quorndon - An extraordinary trout!
Loughborough Monitor - Thursday 21st December 1865
QUORNDON - TROUT EXTRAORDINARY
A ...... cont.
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 | | The Quorn Ranch Company, North America
Introduction
The Quorn Ranch(e) Company was an English syndicate formed in 1886 ...... cont.
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 | | A Quorn football team, circa 1919
This photograph is a football team taken in Quorn. The player on the back row, (second ...... cont.
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 | | Medicine bottle from Green's chemist, Quorn
This medicine bottle came from Green's chemist on High Street, which was situated where ...... cont.
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 | | Edwin and Sarah Gartshore, Quorn
The first photograph is a studio portrait of Edwin Gartshore and his wife Sarah Ann ...... cont.
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 | | Old Quorn residents - George and Mary Gartshore
George and Mary Gartshore were born in 1830, married in 1854 and moved to Quorn in about ...... cont.
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 | | Gartshore family, summer fete, Stafford Orchard, 1960s
A summer fete on Stafford Orchard in the 1960s, with George and Olive Gartshore and their ...... cont.
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 | | Gartshore family, 15 High Street Quorn, 1960s
The elderly couple in these photographs are George Harry Gartshore and his wife Olive, ...... cont.
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| | Alfred Charles Morrison of Quorn - Pioneer of the electric milk float
A fascinating article about Alfred Morrison, a former village resident, who was an ...... cont.
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 | | Mee and Marlow family pictures
These family photographs were kindly supplied by Valerie Roche who lives in France, but ...... cont.
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 | | Machine shop at M. Wright and Sons, Quorn, early 1920s
In the 1920s the machines were belt driven, feeding off overhead line-shafting. As well ...... cont.
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 | | Civilian Bobbies on the beat in Quorn
In this 2003 newspaper article held in the Quorn Parish Council Archives, Councillor Joan ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Environmental Award (2000)
Quorndon Parish Council won the Daily Telegraph/Calor Gas National Environmental Village ...... cont.
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 | | Student life at Soar House, Quorn, in the 1960s
Paul Dilks was a student at Loughborough College of Education from 1966 to 1969 and his ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Golden Jubilee Celebrations, May 2002
The Quorndon Magazine had reported that for the 4th year running, the sun shone on the ...... cont.
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 | | Opening of Quorn Football Club new ground, 1960
Loughborough Echo, Friday, September 2nd, 1960.
QUORN F.C. - NEW GROUND AND ...... cont.
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 | | Upset in Quorn Urban District Council!
The Illustrated Leicester Chronicle
Saturday 24th April 1926
DESPICABLE ...... cont.
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| | M Wright and Sons, Quorn - Centenary Celebration, 1960 - Programme
M Wright and Sons, elastic webbing manufacturers, started in Leicester in 1860 and moved ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn House, 1886
Quorn House on Meeting Street was originally known as the Over Hall and was the seat of ...... cont.
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 | | Retirement concert for Jack Briers, Head of Quorn Primary School, 1971
These photographs were taken on the occasion of the retirement of Jack Briers, the ...... cont.
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 | | St Barts Primary School football team, 1959-60
St Bartholomew’s Primary School football team, 1959-60.
Teachers, left to right: Jack ...... cont.
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| | Phyllis Field (nee Broom), 1917 - 2007
Phyllis Broom was born at what is now 37 Farnham Street in Quorn and lived in the village ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Village Event, early/mid 1950s
A village event in the early/mid 1950s. The gentleman holding the darts aloft is former ...... cont.
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| | William Henry Norman (PC Billy Norman) 1889 to 1958
William Henry (Billy) Norman was born on 29th March 1889 in Oadby. After distinguished ...... cont.
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 | | PC Billy Norman – served in Quorn 1930 to 1944
In the 1980s and 1990s Harry Limbert, who lived in Quorn talked to a lot of the older ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary School, early 1950s
Taken in the early 1950s in the old primary school playground, when the school was on ...... cont.
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 | | Schooldays at Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary, 1957 to 1961
John Tweedie and his twin brother Jim were at St Barts Primary during the school years ...... cont.
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 | | Thompson and Gamble, builders of the Cradock Drive housing development
Who were Thompson and Gamble?
Thompson and Gamble were a well-known ...... cont.
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 | | The QUORN Tool and Cutter Grinder
Since its launch in 1974, the Quorn Tool and Cutter Grinder has achieved legendary status ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Baptist Church Christian Endeavour Group, early 1900s
The Baptist Church in Quorn has always had a large following since they came to the ...... cont.
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 | | 12 Freehold Street, Quorn – Shop and Off-Licence
The first of these photographs was taken in about 1909 and shows Joseph Birkin standing ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Ladies in Skegness, 1953
Four Quorn ladies enjoying the sunshine in ‘Skeggie’, in coronation year 1953.
Only ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn St Bartholomew's National School, 1910
In the first part of last century, what we know today as primary schools kept children ...... cont.
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 | | Robert Sutton, Quorn Family Butcher
This photograph was taken on High Street in Quorn around 1920, and shows Robert and Gerty ...... cont.
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 | | William Freer born 1830 in Quorn, died 17th February 1887, Denbighshire
William Freer was born in Quorn in 1830. By the 1850s he was a kennel man for Quorn Hunt, ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams
Died 13th May 1915, aged 29
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse
Died 9th August 1918, aged 31
Rosières, the Somme, France
A Canadian ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley
Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France
George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale
Died 11th August 1917, aged 34
Ypres, Belgium
Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft
Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Ernest was ...... cont.
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Total: 998 artefacts returned over 20 pages
