Here we can trace the history of local
government in the village. We have subsections on the Local Board,
which surprising for a relatively small village, evolved into an Urban
District Council and which ultimately in 1936 became the Parish Council.
The information is primarily taken from newspaper sources instead of minutes as the papers
tended to report on the more interesting aspects of the meetings.
Public health was a matter of great concern for our forefathers and
we can read with the benefit of a modern understanding of basic hygiene,
the horrors of frequent infant mortality due to the recurring infectious
diseases, often caused by terrible sanitary conditions.
![Original Plans and Sections for Swithland Reservoir 1889/90](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Original Plans and Sections for Swithland Reservoir 1889/90 The pdf file below contains images of a large book (31 ins x 23 ins or 79cm x 57.5cm), ...... cont.
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![Quorn Brook/Buddon Brook/River Lin - what’s in a name?](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Brook/Buddon Brook/River Lin - what’s in a name? The brook that flows from the Quorn parish boundary at Swithland Reservoir and passes ...... cont.
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![Rural District of Barrow upon Soar - Official Guide](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Rural District of Barrow upon Soar - Official Guide This booklet ‘Rural District of Barrow upon Soar - Official Guide’ was published during ...... cont.
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![A piped water supply for Quorn](artefacts/images100wide/2519.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | A piped water supply for Quorn The pictures below are of water drain covers situated near to the Quorn House Lodge in ...... cont.
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![A story about Quorn Parish boundary by Barrow Bridge, from 1909](artefacts/images100wide/2515.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | A story about Quorn Parish boundary by Barrow Bridge, from 1909 A STRANGE DIVERGENCE OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE TWO PARISHES OF QUORN AND ...... cont.
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![Quorn Milestone](artefacts/images100wide/2440.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Milestone On the Leicester Road between the pavement and the fence stands a little-known link with ...... cont.
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![1935 Silver Jubilee Seat petition](artefacts/images100wide/2433.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | 1935 Silver Jubilee Seat petition In May 1935, King George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee was celebrated in Quorn with ...... cont.
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![Quorndon Coronation Celebrations Minute Book 1936/7](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorndon Coronation Celebrations Minute Book 1936/7 In January 1936, King George V died and his eldest son Edward VIII succeeded him as King ...... cont.
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![Civilian Bobbies on the beat in Quorn](artefacts/images100wide/2422.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | 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)](artefacts/images100wide/2421.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Environmental Award (2000) Quorndon Parish Council won the Daily Telegraph/Calor Gas National Environmental Village ...... cont.
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![Woodthorpe and Quorndon Parish Boundary Marker](artefacts/images100wide/2416.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Woodthorpe and Quorndon Parish Boundary Marker This boundary marker was originally sited on the A6 Trunk Road to indicate the position ...... cont.
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![Quorn – the best kept village!](artefacts/images100wide/2415.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn – the best kept village! Between 1996 and 2004 the village received a number of awards. Quorn Parish Council at ...... cont.
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![Upset in Quorn Urban District Council!](artefacts/images100wide/2412.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Upset in Quorn Urban District Council! The Illustrated Leicester Chronicle
Saturday 24th April 1926
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![Quorndon Parish Council – the best in the country!](artefacts/images100wide/2409.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorndon Parish Council – the best in the country! This article appeared in the press shortly after Quorndon Parish Council was named ...... cont.
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![HMS Quorn](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | HMS Quorn Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Quorn as part of the ‘Hunt Class’. ...... cont.
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![Quorndon Embossing Presses](artefacts/images100wide/2404.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorndon Embossing Presses These two embossing presses were found during the 2020 Parish Council office move from ...... cont.
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![William Henry Norman (PC Billy Norman) 1889 to 1958](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | 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](artefacts/images100wide/2394.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | 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 Police Station, 1980s](artefacts/images100wide/2243.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Police Station, 1980s Quorn Police Station closed in 2011 and the land has since been redeveloped for housing. ...... cont.
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![Quorn and the Spanish flu epidemic](artefacts/images100wide/2229.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn and the Spanish flu epidemic The worldwide ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918 hit the UK in waves and it is estimated that ...... cont.
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![Quorn toilet dispute! 1961](artefacts/images100wide/2020.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn toilet dispute! 1961 The British Film Institute Player website includes a 1 ½ minute clip of film made in ...... cont.
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![Recreation Ground for Quorn, April 1914](graphics/newspapers.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Recreation Ground for Quorn, April 1914 Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News - Thursday 2nd April ...... cont.
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![Quorn, Beating the Bounds, May 1917](graphics/newspapers.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn, Beating the Bounds, May 1917 Loughborough Echo - Friday 18th May 1917
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![Quorn UDC horse and cart](artefacts/images100wide/1878.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn UDC horse and cart This photograph was taken in the early 1900s and is an picture that the team have never ...... cont.
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![List of Overseers of the Poor – Quorn 1801 to 1879](graphics/historical_note.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | List of Overseers of the Poor – Quorn 1801 to 1879 This list was taken from the Quorndon Vestry Meeting minute book. Vestry Meetings were an ...... cont.
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Total: 105 artefacts returned over 5 pages