Friday 15th October 2021  

Quorn Floods

Apart from the Hunt, Quorn was well-known for its spectacular floods. Fortunately modern engineering has solved this dangerous inconvenience to a large extent. In this section you can view photographs of the village under water and read about the Great Flood of 1875 when a man lost his life in the grounds of White Horse.

		Terrific Gale Strikes Loughborough and Quorn, March 1947 Loughborough Echo, Friday, 21st March 1947 ROADS BLOCKED BY FALLEN ...... cont.
		Floods, Meeting Street, 1960 Before flood prevention measures were taken in Quorn, the village used to flood with ...... cont.
		Floods in Quorn, 1961 Before flood prevention measures, Quorn used to flood to a greater or lesser extent every ...... cont.
		Royal Oak, Quorn in the floods, early 1930s This photograph was taken in the floods at Quorn Cross/Meeting Street, by the Royal Oak ...... cont.
		Soar Valley News, April 1977 The Soar Valley News was a four page, black and white community newspaper/newsletter type ...... cont.

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