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.
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 |  | Floods, Meeting Street, 1960 Before flood prevention measures were taken in Quorn, the village used to flood with ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods in Quorn, 1961 Before flood prevention measures, Quorn used to flood to a greater or lesser extent every ...... cont.
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 |  | 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.
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 |  | 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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 |  | A tragic accident during the Quorn floods of 1875 1875 saw some of the worst floods in Quorn for many years. The newspapers recorded the ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods around the White Horse pub, Quorn, 1986 The first photograph was taken during the floods of 1986, looking up Meeting Street, ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Station Road, probably 1947 The gabled building behind the lorry is the White Horse pub, on the corner of Station ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods at Quorn Cross in the 1950s or 1960s. Flooding at Quorn Cross was a regular occurrence until flood prevention measures were ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Cross in the floods It is not certain in which year this photograph was taken, but it looks like the 1950s or ...... cont.
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 |  | Harry and Ada Yeomans - floods on Leicester Road in 1960 The top photograph was taken during floods in the 1960s and appeared in the Leicester ...... cont.
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 |  | Otter's Post Office and grocery store in the floods This photograph shows Quorn Cross during some heavy flooding. Otter's took over from ...... cont.
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 |  | Mill House Inn, Leicester Road during floods in the 1920s The Mill House Inn used to be on Leicester Road, abutting what are now Wright's factory ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Leicester Road, 1960s This photograph is taken looking up towards the Cross on Leicester Road. Wakerley Court ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Stafford Orchard, early 1970s This view from the early 1970s is taken from what is now the Station Road car park, ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Station Road, early 1970s These two pictures of Station Road during the floods, were taken by Richard Thompson, who ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods at Quorn Cross, early 1970s These photographs were taken by Richard Thompson during floods in the early 1970s.
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 |  | Leicester Road floods in 1932 Marius Wright (1914 to 1980) was driving his Morgan through floods on Leicester Road in ...... cont.
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 |  | Flood 1960 Station Road under water in December 1960
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 |  | Boy Scouts' Narrow Escape - camp flooded in early morning hours. Loughborough Monitor and Herald - August 10th 1922
The district around Quorn and ...... cont.
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 |  | Life goes on during the floods This photograph is taken looking up Station Road towards the cross and the Royal Oak. Mr ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods in the Early 1980s This photograph shows Ruth Iley from Farnham Street (in her twenties), standing outside ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods in the Early 1980s Despite flood prevention measures, prolonged heavy rain in the 1980s still caused ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorndon Parish Council, monthly meeting April 1963 Loughborough Monitor - 12th April 1963
Quorn Parish Council decided at its monthly ...... cont.
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 |  | Heavy flooding in the Loughborough District - 1960 Loughborough Echo - 9th December 1960
At Quorn on Saturday night a double-decker bus ...... cont.
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 |  | Flood of 1932 This is one of three photographs found in the Leicester Record Office showing the severe ...... cont.
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 |  | Flood of 1932 Although not of a good quality, Leicester Record Office has photographs of a severe flood ...... cont.
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 |  | Flood of 1932 1932 must have been a bad year for flooding. We found several photographs in the ...... cont.
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 |  | Parish Council warned - ‘River Soar may change course’ - 1953 Loughborough Monitor - 10th April 1953
Parish Council Meeting
In not many years’ ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn flood of 1901 Extract from Parish Magazine - January 1901
The floods which closed the old year and ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn and District floods of 1948 Loughborough Echo - 12th November 1948
SOAR VALLEY FLOODS
Many Roads ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn floods of 1882 Birmingham Daily Post - 6th June 1882
Floods in Leicestershire
During the past three ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Floods in 1939 Loughborough Echo - 27th January 1939
The recent snow and rain seem likely to bring ...... cont.
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 |  | Parish Council Loughborough Monitor - 16th May 1969
Quorn Parish Council are becoming increasingly ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Floods 1977 Loughborough Echo - 4th March 1977
Quorn Cross, which is a well-known danger point ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Barrow Road Taken in 1951, the slightly raised level (where the motorcyclist is) is the location of ...... cont.
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 |  | The Floods of 1901 Extract from Parish Magazine, January 1901
The floods which closed the old year and ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Station Road 1920s Judging by the clothes, this photograph was taken in the 1920s outside Facer's shop. One ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods follow the thaw 1962 Loughborough Echo - January 12th 1962
Photograph 1 shows a car in trouble on the road ...... cont.
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 |  | Leicester Road in flood 1933 Two similar images of Leicester Road in flood. Taken from the property to the left of the ...... cont.
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 |  | Shops on Leicester Road, Quorn, during floods A photo looking towards Quorn Cross showing the Tea Shop on Leicester Road and the row of ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Loughborough Road, Quorn Severe flooding on the Quorn to Loughborough road causes problems for traffic. c1918
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 |  | Quorn Parish Council 1947 Loughborough Monitor - 9th January 1947
In response to complaints about flooding in ...... cont.
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 |  | After the snow came the floods Loughborough Monitor - 20th March 1947
At Quorn, Mr A W Hincks, landlord of the "White ...... cont.
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 |  | Stream from Tom Long's Meadow, Quorn Builders break into the culvert carrying the stream from Tom Long's Meadow into Quorn ...... cont.
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 |  | The great flood at Quorn - July 21st 1875 Notes by C Murray Rumsey
A Mountsorrel Pepys
Discovery of old diary
Diaries can ...... cont.
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 |  | The Green in flood Note the lock up to the left and Wright's factory in the distance. This view has been ...... cont.
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 |  | Children on School Lane causeway Children on causeway looking from School Lane towards the river c1920s. The granite wall ...... cont.
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 |  | Floods on Station Road, Quorn 1922 Station Road flooded in August 1922. Note the railings of Black Green on the left. The ...... cont.
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Total: 59 artefacts returned over 2 pages