Friday 13th February 2026  

Quorn Local Government and Public Health

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.

		Receipts – Quorndon Local Board and Barrow on Soar Poor Law Union The two receipts below are dated 24th August 1868 and 8th March 1876 respectively. ...... cont.
		PC Thomas Henry Thornton, a Quorn Police Constable The name PC Thornton crops up in many Quorn newspaper articles between 1899 and 1923. ...... cont.
		The History of Quorn Gas Works, the Brinks, established 1854 There is little sign today of the Quorn Gas Works that were situated on the Brinks in ...... cont.

Total: 110 artefacts returned over 37 pages

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