![House re-numbering certificate – Meeting Street](artefacts/images100wide/1778.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | House re-numbering certificate – Meeting Street As Quorn expanded over the years, some streets had to be renumbered. Meeting Street was ...... cont.
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![View over Wright’s factory from the Church tower – then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1758.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | View over Wright’s factory from the Church tower – then and now These photographs were taken from the top of the Church tower, looking towards Wright’s ...... cont.
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![View over Nursery Lane from the Church tower – then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1757.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | View over Nursery Lane from the Church tower – then and now These photographs were taken from the top of the Church tower, looking towards Nursery ...... cont.
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![View over Church Lane from the Church tower – then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1756.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | View over Church Lane from the Church tower – then and now These photographs were taken from the top of the Church tower, looking towards Church ...... cont.
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![Station Road, Quorn, about 1913](artefacts/images100wide/1740.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Station Road, Quorn, about 1913 The photograph on this postcard was taken by F W Scarratt of Derby and the card was ...... cont.
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![High Street Quorn, 1944](artefacts/images100wide/1739.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | High Street Quorn, 1944 This postcard of Quorn was printed by Raphael Tuck and Sons, probably one of the most ...... cont.
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![Quorn Hunt kennels, 1884](artefacts/images100wide/1738.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Hunt kennels, 1884 An engraving of Quorn Hunt kennels from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News ...... cont.
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![Station Road, Quorn](artefacts/images100wide/1737.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Station Road, Quorn A everyday scene looking down Station road in about 1910. It is interesting that most of ...... cont.
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![Quorn Hunt on the Little Green](artefacts/images100wide/1736.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Hunt on the Little Green The photograph for this postcard was taken between 1909 and 1913. The location is what is ...... cont.
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![Richard Pulteney - 1730-1801](artefacts/images100wide/1720.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Richard Pulteney - 1730-1801 Richard Pulteney was a physician and botanist after whom Poultney Brook and Poultney ...... cont.
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![An attempt to save the Hall on the Green - 1963](graphics/historical_note.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | An attempt to save the Hall on the Green - 1963 The Hall on The Green
The building which was no 8 Station Road was probably at the ...... cont.
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![Quorn House](artefacts/images100wide/1696.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn House Loughborough Echo 3rd September 1971
An important survivor of the Georgian period of ...... cont.
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![High Street cottages - a view from 1966](artefacts/images100wide/1678.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | High Street cottages - a view from 1966 Father Time has left his marks on this somewhat gloomy looking group in High Street, ...... cont.
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![Ivy Cottage, 1 Chaveney Road, Quorn](artefacts/images100wide/1666.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Ivy Cottage, 1 Chaveney Road, Quorn It seems easiest to describe Ivy Cottage as being positioned at right angles to Meeting ...... cont.
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![The Black Pad, Wood Lane, Quorn](artefacts/images100wide/1647.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Black Pad, Wood Lane, Quorn These photographs were taken in the late 1940s by Arthur or Doris Green, on the ‘Black ...... cont.
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![Meeting Street in the snow in 1961](artefacts/images100wide/1644.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Meeting Street in the snow in 1961 This view down Meeting Street was taken from Quorn Cross end, with the former forge on ...... cont.
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![Quorn Mills Bowls Club - Re-thatching in progress, 1961](artefacts/images100wide/1642.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Mills Bowls Club - Re-thatching in progress, 1961 This photograph was taken by Roy Green in 1961, when the thatch was being replaced on ...... cont.
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![Three generations of the Green family outside their cottage in Wood Lane](artefacts/images100wide/1640.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Three generations of the Green family outside their cottage in Wood Lane This branch of the Green family can trace their roots in Quorn for six generations, back ...... cont.
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![Church Rooms, Quorn](artefacts/images100wide/1631.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Church Rooms, Quorn The Church Rooms were built in 1929. The first picture was probably taken in the 1940s or ...... cont.
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![The Old Lock-up](artefacts/images100wide/1617.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Old Lock-up These photographs were taken in the early 1960s, around the time that the public toilets ...... cont.
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![Meeting Street/Chaveney Road - then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1611.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Meeting Street/Chaveney Road - then and now The cottage on the left is now 1 Chaveney Road (Ivy Cottage). The Baptist Church can be ...... cont.
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![The Banks Cottages, High Street, Quorn](graphics/pdfs.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Banks Cottages, High Street, Quorn This article about the Banks Cottages on High Street,appeared in the Quorndon Magazine in ...... cont.
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![Aerial view of Barrow Road and Howlett's Bus Station](artefacts/images100wide/1599.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Aerial view of Barrow Road and Howlett's Bus Station Howlett's Bus Company was founded in Quorn by George Howlett in the early 1920s. The ...... cont.
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![Quorn Cross, 1965](artefacts/images100wide/1598.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Cross, 1965 Quorn Cross in 1965. Note the Post Office on the left, and a Howlett's bus on the right ...... cont.
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![The Hurst, Loughborough Road](artefacts/images100wide/1597.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Hurst, Loughborough Road For the first part of the last century The Hurst (23 Loughborough Road), was home to the ...... cont.
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![Quorn High Street - The White Hart and Banks cottages](artefacts/images100wide/1596.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn High Street - The White Hart and Banks cottages This photograph is taken looking down High Street towards Quorn Cross in the 1960s. The ...... cont.
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![Sale of building land, 11th April 1825, Sarson Street, Barrow Road, Loughborough Road, Castledine Street](artefacts/images100wide/1594.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Sale of building land, 11th April 1825, Sarson Street, Barrow Road, Loughborough Road, Castledine Street These sale details relate to the sale of building land in Quorn, at the Bulls Head (on ...... cont.
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![Brook House and its history](artefacts/images100wide/1575.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Brook House and its history Brook House stood where Hall Leys is today; this is behind the Memorial Gardens on the ...... cont.
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![The Banks - Finette Webster](artefacts/images100wide/1574.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Banks - Finette Webster This photograph of the Banks cottages shows Finette Webster, third from the right, ...... cont.
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![Quorn's 'Monument' to close - 1963](graphics/newspapers.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn's 'Monument' to close - 1963 This newspaper article documents the closing of the notorious public loos which were ...... cont.
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![Sale of Woodview - 1922](graphics/newspapers.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Sale of Woodview - 1922 Loughborough Monitor and Herald - 2nd February 1922
Now known as No 82 Leicester ...... cont.
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![Thomas Webster, Baker, The Banks, Quorn](artefacts/images100wide/1532.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Thomas Webster, Baker, The Banks, Quorn This is a rare picture of Thomas Webster's bakers shop on the Banks,Quorn, taken in the ...... cont.
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![The Gas House, 106 Leicester Road, Quorn, 1961](artefacts/images100wide/1526.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Gas House, 106 Leicester Road, Quorn, 1961 This rare photograph of the 'Gas House' on Leicester Road was taken in 1961 by the Brown ...... cont.
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![Quorn Hall - Sale of Earl of Stamford's Hunting Stud, 1863](artefacts/images100wide/1519.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn Hall - Sale of Earl of Stamford's Hunting Stud, 1863 This engraving appeared in the London Illustrated News in May 1863.
It shows what was ...... cont.
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![Quorn House during WW2](artefacts/images100wide/1518.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn House during WW2 This photograph was donated by Sheila Brewer who was a nurse at Quorn House when it was a ...... cont.
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![High Street - 1956](artefacts/images100wide/1514.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | High Street - 1956 From the December issue of The Leicester Graphic. The Methodist Church can be glimpsed ...... cont.
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![Meeting Street - 1956](artefacts/images100wide/1513.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Meeting Street - 1956 From the December issue of The Leicester Graphic. The large building on the right (Alma ...... cont.
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![Quorn House - The Hall 1956](artefacts/images100wide/1512.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn House - The Hall 1956 From The Leicester Graphic - February 1956
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![Quorn House - the oak bedroom 1956](artefacts/images100wide/1511.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Quorn House - the oak bedroom 1956 Taken from an article in The Leicester Graphic dated February 1956:
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![Post War reconstruction - 1944](graphics/newspapers.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Post War reconstruction - 1944 Loughborough Echo - 7th January 1944
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![Loughborough Road looking towards Springfield Lake - then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1488.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Loughborough Road looking towards Springfield Lake - then and now The earlier photograph was taken in the early 1980s before the Farley Way Estate was ...... cont.
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![School Lane - then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1483.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | School Lane - then and now These photographs are of number 9 School Lane. The older photograph was only taken in the ...... cont.
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![The Broom Family on Farnham Street](artefacts/images100wide/1475.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Broom Family on Farnham Street This is a photograph of Thomas and Constance Broom and their two daughters, Phyllis ...... cont.
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![Floods on Station Road, early 1970s](artefacts/images100wide/1460.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | 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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![Leicester Road - then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1457.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Leicester Road - then and now The older photograph shows cottages and shops on Leicester Road being demolished in 1977. ...... cont.
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![The Banks Cottages being demolished, 1970s](artefacts/images100wide/1456.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | The Banks Cottages being demolished, 1970s These rather sad pictures were taken by Richard Thompson in the 1970s when the Banks ...... cont.
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![Going, going, gone! - Leicester Road cottages](artefacts/images100wide/1454.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Going, going, gone! - Leicester Road cottages These cottages, shops and houses were on Leicester Road where The Mills flats are now. ...... cont.
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![Leicester Road, Wakerley Court and The Mills area - then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1453.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Leicester Road, Wakerley Court and The Mills area - then and now The older photograph was taken in the 1970s when the shops and cottages on Leicester Road ...... cont.
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![Leicester Road, Wakerley Court and The Mills area - then and now](artefacts/images100wide/1452.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Leicester Road, Wakerley Court and The Mills area - then and now This part of Quorn has changed out of all recognition since the 1960s.
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![Leicester Road, looking down towards the School Lane, 1970s](artefacts/images100wide/1450.jpg) | ![](graphics/transparent/graphic10x10.gif) | Leicester Road, looking down towards the School Lane, 1970s This photograph was taken in the 1970s, looking down Leicester Road from the Cross ...... cont.
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