| | W E Cooke - A cottage at Quorn This picture was by Quorn artist W E Cooke and appeared on the title page of his first ...... cont.
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| | William Harris Inglesant, Quorn, died 1912 aged 101 This article about the life of William Harris Inglesant appeared in the Quorndon Magazine ...... cont.
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| | Farnham family Victorian livery buttons Upper class Families in Victorian Britain would have employed many servants, and the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Building Society Quorn Building Society, or as it was originally known, the Quorndon and Neighbourhood ...... cont.
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| | Jack Farnham (1890 to 1930) John Adrian George Farnham, known as Jack, was born in Quorn on 5th March 1890. He was ...... cont.
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| | Enjoying the sunshine! Quorn 1920s This photograph was taken on the Greens at Barrow, which is within the parish of Quorn, ...... cont.
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| | St Bartholomew’s Primary School football team, about 1955 When St Bartholomew’s Primary School was located on School Lane, they did not have their ...... cont.
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| | St Bartholomew’s Primary School, summer 1951 Back row, left to right: Teacher Miss Bratton, then, probably Denise Gretton, ?, ?, John ...... cont.
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| | St Barts Primary School football team, 1957-58 St Bartholomew’s Primary School under 11s football team, 1957-58 – Cup and league ...... cont.
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| | Football – Quorn match win! 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952
Quorn Recover From Shock
Quorn 2, ...... cont.
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| | Tom Gartshore from Quorn – Fishing advice, 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952
They only catch ‘tiddlers’ today - ...... cont.
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| | A wedding in Quorn, 1952 Loughborough Monitor, Friday 17th October 1952
Cinema staff saw the bride
Women ...... cont.
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| | Collecting leaves on High Street, Quorn, October 1952 This great picture appeared in the Loughborough Monitor on Friday 17th October 1952, when ...... cont.
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| | Deer roaming around the White Horse in Quorn! 1988 During road works near the White Horse pub in Quorn in 1988, ancient deer bones were ...... cont.
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| | The Wardle family, Farnham Street, Quorn Following on from cont.
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| | 65 Loughborough Road, Quorn Occupants of 65 Loughborough Road
For many years 65 Loughborough Road marked the ...... cont.
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| | Herbert Wardle, Farnham Street, Quorn The Wardle family lived at 27 Farnham Street, Quorn, from about 1919 to the 1940s. ...... cont.
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| | Quorn in WW2 – The girls who listened Beaumanor Hall at Old Woodhouse was one of the largest Y stations, or listening stations ...... cont.
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| | A Quorn boxer, managed by Tiger Allen, 1930s This unusual studio photograph shows a boxer with the initials TS. The reverse of the ...... cont.
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| | 1834 letter from Ann Carter, Quorn, to the Mayor of New York In 2015 a letter came up for sale which was written in 1834 by 43 year old Ann Carter ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Mills Bowls Club, September 1928 This photograph of Quorn Mills Bowls Club has been sent to the museum team by Pam ...... cont.
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| | A History of 27 Meeting Street, Quorn 27 Meeting Street is one of the oldest properties in Quorn, and a shorter version of this ...... cont.
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| | Thomas Rawlins Grammar School, Quorn, Senior Speech Day November 1964 Below is the Senior School Speech Day programme for Rawlins in November 1964. It was ...... cont.
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| | Vena Grain, 1895 to 1989. Oral history interview from 1985 Vena Grain was born in Leicester on 21st February 1895, and the family moved to Quorn in ...... cont.
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| | A brief history of Soar House, Soar Road, Quorn Soar House is situated on Soar Road in Quorn. Many of the large houses in the village ...... cont.
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| | Fundraising for Quorn Church Rooms - garden fete accounts, 1923 to 1927 The Church Rooms were built in 1929, but the construction was preceded by several years ...... cont.
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| | The death of Joseph Adcock, Quorn 1867 Joseph Bexton Adcock was born in Quorn in 1827, and died on 27th December 1867 from ...... cont.
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| | Press Cutting, 6th May 1955 - Quorn Bowlers Open the Season The first wood of the new season is sent down on a Quorn green. The scene is Quorn Mills ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Grammar School (Rawlins) Admissions Register, 1900 to 1914 Rawlins School Admissions Register from September 1900 to September 1914, contains 242 ...... cont.
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| | Meeting Street, Quorn As the years go by and as Quorn Village On-line Museum continues to grow, it becomes ...... cont.
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| | The Farnham Monuments: Myths, Legends and Family Fables This research was carried out by Moira Ackers from Loughborough, and published by The ...... cont.
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| | Pillings Lock, Quorn Pillings Lock is in the Parish of Quorn, to the north-east of the village itself, and is ...... cont.
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| | Video: Wrights - Weaving Narrow Fabrics in Quorn since 1860 Wrights factory has been in Quorn since the 1860s and continues to thrive today. This ...... cont.
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| | Letter from Henry Balguy, from boarding school at Quorn, September 1835 During the 19th century there were many private schools in Quorn. Sometimes they would ...... cont.
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| | Quorn photograph taken between 1905 and 1910 This photograph was taken by William Shuttlewood in Quorn between 1905 and 1910. ...... cont.
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| | Two photographs from Quorn in WW2 These two photographs were taken during WW2 in 1942, in the back garden of 7 Mansfield ...... cont.
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| | Jack and Doris Newton from Quorn These photographs taken in 1922 are of John Aaron Newton (Jacko') and Doris Miriam ...... cont.
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| | W E Cooke – A Quorn artist, 1843 to 1916 William Edward Cooke was a professional artist and art teacher. He was born in Derby in ...... cont.
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| | Picture by W E Cooke – Coal Wharf, 1879 This picture of the Coal Wharf on Soar Road in Quorn, was drawn in 1879 by local ...... cont.
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| | Picture by W E Cooke – Farm Yard at Quorndon The exact location of this farmyard is unfortunately not known, although it is in Quorn ...... cont.
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| | Sampler – Rosanna Goulding, Quorndon, 1884 This article appeared in the spring edition of The Quorndon magazine in 2015. It tells ...... cont.
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| | St Bartholomew's National School, 1910 Very little was known about this photograph until cont.
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| | Stafford Orchard Park, 1936, Sarah Farley This wonderful photograph was taken in 1936 on Stafford Orchard, the park in the middle ...... cont.
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| | Sampler – Rosanna Goulding, Quorndon, 1884 One of the most amazing pieces of Quorn history! This intricately stitched sampler was ...... cont.
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| | Food production from allotments and rabbits - WW1 The two newspaper cuttings below reflect the efforts being made in Quorn during WW1, to ...... cont.
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| | Sudden Death at Quorn Adult School - April 1905 Loughborough Herald - 13th April 1905
On Sunday morning, shortly after the opening of ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Wood Tragedy - Gamekeeper found shot - March 1917 Loughborough Herald - March 15th 1917
A sad tragedy was discovered in Quorn Wood on ...... cont.
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| | Death of Quorn tradesman - May 1934 Loughborough Echo - 25th May 1934
The death occurred in Loughborough Hospital on ...... cont.
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| | Funeral of Mrs Eliza Hallam - March 1934 Loughborough Echo - 23rd March 1934
The funeral of Mrs Eliza Ann Hallam who died on ...... cont.
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| | Dress show by Quorn Institute pupils, April 1958 Loughborough Echo - 11th April 1958
Outstanding dress show by Quorn Institute ...... cont.
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Total: 966 artefacts returned over 20 pages