Quorn had and still has plenty of historic
buildings. Many of these are hunt related and served as permanent
residences or hunting boxes for the aristocracy. In this section you
will find references to important houses such as Quorn House and Quorn
Hall. We also include the more humble cottages, houses and street scenes. There are also articles and photographs of demolished buildings
such as the Hall on the Green.
 |  | The servants of Quorn Hall – 1906
The Warner family purchased Quorn Hall in 1855 and lived there until 1919. In 1906 the ...... cont.
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 | | The Vicarage, Quorn 1906
This is a side view of what was the vicarage in 1906. It is now (2025) in the grounds of ...... cont.
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 | | Bessie Dakin, Quorn – Sampler and Postcard
Bessie Dakin was born in 1885 and moved to Quorn with her family in 1906, where she lived ...... cont.
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 | | Corner of Woodhouse Road and Loughborough Road, Quorn, about 1905
Looking up Woodhouse Road from Loughborough Road, about 1905
The house on the right is ...... cont.
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 | | Station Road, Quorn, 1905
On the left is a very old cruck constructed building that was sadly demolished and ...... cont.
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 | | General William Booth in Quorn 1905
General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, driving through Quorn Cross on his ...... cont.
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 | | Moated Medieval Hunting Lodge, Quorn
Off Chaveney Road, along the public footpath by Mill Fields Farm is Quorn’s only national ...... cont.
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 | | Huntsman’s Cottage, off Meynell Road, Quorn, 1906
This postcard is entitled Tom Firr’s Cottage, Quorn, 1906. Tom Firr was at one time the ...... cont.
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| | Frank Facer and The Hall on the Green, Quorn
Harry Facer and his wife Ann moved to Quorn in the 1860s and had eleven children, so the ...... cont.
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 | | Drawing of Buddon Brook/Quorn Memorial Gardens, late 1980s
An atmospheric drawing of Buddon Brook and part of the Memorial Gardens by Diane Ross ...... cont.
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 | | William Henry Fewkes, 1861 to 1930
The Fewkes family can trace its roots in Quorn back to the early 1600s and may well have ...... cont.
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 | | Motoring Fatality, 1930 Bull in the Hollow, Quorn
The Leicester Mail, Friday April 4th 1930
Terrible Motoring Fatality Near Quorn ...... cont.
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 | | Alfred Thomas Warbis – The Old Bulls Head, Quorn
Alfred Thomas Warbis worked in advertising, but in addition produced 1,000s of pen and ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Cross 1988, paintings by Kevon Thompson
These two wonderful pictures were painted in Acrylics by Kevon Thompson from Barrow upon ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Cross, early 1960s
Although this view of Quorn looking from Meeting Street up towards Quorn Cross is easily ...... cont.
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 | | Loughborough Road – Then and Now
This is Loughborough Road, standing opposite Barrow Road, looking from Quorn towards ...... cont.
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 | | Leicester Road floods – Then and Now
The older photograph is difficult to date, but probably 1930s. The view, taken from the ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Lodge Farm, 1952
The author of the following piece which appeared in the press in 1952, is describing a ...... cont.
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| | Tragedy at a Quorn bus stop, 1966
Dennis Marchant, with the help of the Loughborough Echo and the Quorn Parish Council ...... cont.
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 | | High Street, Quorn, 1920s
Looking down High Street towards Quorn Cross in the 1920s.
The area on the left was ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Hall Lodge, off Meynell Road, early 1900s
There are two former lodges to Quorn Hall and this one is situated off Meynell Road. ...... cont.
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| | The History of 94 Meeting Street, Quorn
The story of a house in Quorn over 200 years. Sue Griffiths tells us about how her house, ...... cont.
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| | Sale of the contents of Quorn Court, 1926
For most of the nineteen century and into the twentieth century, Quorn Court on High ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Primitive Methodist Chapel, Meeting Street – Then and now
Nationally the Primitive Methodists broke away from the Wesleyan Methodists in about ...... cont.
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 | | High Street, Quorn in 1952
This sketch appeared in the Loughborough Echo in 1952 and shows cottages which stood next ...... cont.
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| | 23 Chaveney Road, Quorn – The history of a house
This article entitled ‘The House Detective!’ was written by Sue Templeman and appeared in ...... cont.
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 | | Westfield Farm, Woodhouse Road – Then and now
A view looking up Woodhouse Road towards the Farley Way crossroads.
The older ...... cont.
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 | | Soar Road, Quorn, about 1910
A postcard of Soar Road showing children playing in and around the River Soar in about ...... cont.
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 | | 22 High Street, Quorn - discovery behind a wall!
In September 2021, local optometrist Mohammed Bhojani was having some alterations ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn property sales, 1934
Leicester Evening Mail Thursday 5th July 1934
QUORN PROPERTY UNDER THE HAMMER
Quorn ...... cont.
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 | | A fete in Quorn, probably 1940s
Quorn has always liked a good fete or celebration and it is thought that this one may ...... cont.
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 | | Hilda and Mary Harper, Leicester Road, 27th May 1941
Looking down Leicester Road from outside no 14, which is roughly where the entrance to ...... cont.
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 | | Nut Row, Quorn
This is a rare photograph of Nut Row in Quorn, which was a row of cottages off Station ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Hall Lodge, Barrow Road, early 1900s
There are two former lodges to Quorn Hall and this one is situated on Barrow Road, on the ...... cont.
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 | | William Rodger Johnstone 1902-1990, 15 Chaveney Road
William Johnstone, his wife Mary Ellen and their children lived in Quorn for a short time ...... cont.
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 | | Joyce Chamberlain, Alma Terrace, 1940s
This photograph was taken on Alma Terrace off Meeting Street. Alma Terrace was a row of ...... cont.
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 | | Lily and Pauline Hudson, 72 Leicester Road, 1937
Frank Hudson, born in 1911, was brought up at Meadow View in Quorn, now 83 Barrow Road. ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Milestone
On the Leicester Road between the pavement and the fence stands a little-known link with ...... cont.
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 | | Student life at Soar House, Quorn, in the 1960s
Paul Dilks was a student at Loughborough College of Education from 1966 to 1969 and his ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn House, 1886
Quorn House on Meeting Street was originally known as the Over Hall and was the seat of ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Hall, 1905
The original Quorn Hall, known as the Nether Hall, was built on the north-east side of ...... cont.
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 | | Thompson and Gamble, builders of the Cradock Drive housing development
Who were Thompson and Gamble?
Thompson and Gamble were a well-known ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn property for sale - January 1985
The two adverts below appeared in the local newspaper on Saturday 5th January 1985. ...... cont.
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 | | Meeting Street, Quorn – Then and now
The earlier of these two photographs is thought to have been taken in about 1911. The ...... cont.
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 | | Renumbering of Properties on Quorn Streets
Over the years several of the older streets in Quorn have been renumbered. This can be ...... 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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 | | Quorn Home Guard, Loughborough Road, 1942
The older photograph was taken in October 1942. The three men belong to Quorn Home Guard ...... cont.
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| | Raven Cottage, 31 Meeting Street, Quorn – House deeds/timeline
Property deeds are a valuable source of local history information, but since land ...... cont.
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 | | Elms Drive gates
Elms Drive was built in the late 1920s/early 1930s, and until about 1957 it had large ...... cont.
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 | | Leicester Road, Quorn, demolished properties
It is thought that this photograph was taken in 1972, shortly before these properties ...... cont.
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Total: 337 artefacts returned over 7 pages
