| | Dower House Gardens, off Station Road - then and now Dower House Gardens as we know it today, was built in the 1970s. The original ‘Dower ...... cont.
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| | The Dower House, Station Road - then and now The Dower House, off Station Road was once the Dower House for the Farnham family. ...... cont.
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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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| | The Dining Room at Quorn House - 1956 A room crowded with historical interest. Round the one half of the heavily carved ...... cont.
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| | The Library at Quorn House - 1956 At this time Quorn House was owned by Mr George Farnham and his wife, Barbara. The ...... cont.
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| | Number 85 Meeting Street – Fanny Clarke’s Shop As you walk down Meeting Street, you pass an unassuming house, one of a small terrace, ...... cont.
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| | Harold Farley 1907 to 1982 The name of Harold Farley is mentioned everyday in Quorn as we talk about ‘Farley Way’ or ...... cont.
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| | Christmas Card showing Wood Lane This photograph was sent as a Christmas card in 1902, to the Felthouse family. On the ...... cont.
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| | Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent arriving at Quorn House During the Second World war, Quorn House on Meeting Street was used as a nursing station. ...... cont.
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| | Proposed housing development next to the Churchyard The date of this plan is not certain, but it would appear that at some point there was a ...... cont.
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| | Poster for the sale of 'Quorn Cottage' - 1880 This is a poster for the sale of a large house called ‘Quorn Cottage’ in 1880. Many large ...... cont.
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| | Cottages – Wood Lane, Quorn This postcard was posted in 1905 and is entitled ‘Wood Lane’. It was published for resale ...... cont.
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| | John Disney, boot and shoe maker, The Banks, Quorn John Disney was born in 1870, his parents being John and Ann Disney, an established Quorn ...... cont.
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| | Sale of Farnham land and property 1892 The poster below from 1892 is advertising a unique sale of land and property, mainly in ...... cont.
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| | Farnham Memorial Hall at Quorn - Addition to Rawlins School - Gift of late Mr George Farnham Loughborough Echo 25th November 1938
The opening of the Farnham Memorial Hall, Quorn ...... cont.
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| | Loughborough College purchase Quorn Hall - to be used as hostel, residence of famous hunting men Loughborough Echo 18th February 1938
A Ghost Story ------- “With His Head Under His ...... cont.
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| | The Quorn by-pass Loughborough Echo 4th February 1938
The proposal to by-pass Quorn by a road running ...... cont.
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| | A hundred years ago - view of Quorndon Hall, Leicestershire A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
This article comes from Baily’s Magazine Sports and Pastimes dated ...... cont.
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| | Soar Road - 1930 Loughborough Echo - 18th July 1930
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| | Death of Mr J. A. Hayward. 1922 Loughborough Monitor and Herald - January 19th 1922
Death of Mr J. A. Hayward
A ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Court - article from 1953 4th December 1953 – Loughborough Monitor
Quorn Court – stately home of Col. W.S.N. ...... cont.
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| | The White House, Meeting Street – then and now The White House (101 Meeting Street) is one of the oldest houses in Quorn. The earliest ...... cont.
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| | Barrow Road, Hillyard Cottages - then and now This is the left-hand side of Barrow Road looking from Quorn towards Barrow, starting at ...... cont.
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| | Chaveney Road – then and now, 1919 and 2011 This view of Chaveney Road is looking from the Meeting Street direction up to Buddon ...... cont.
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| | Loughborough Road, Quorn - then and now This is a view of the right-hand side of Loughborough Road, looking from the centre of ...... cont.
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| | The Old Lock-up - then and now The old lock up was built on the village green in the early 1800s as the village gaol, ...... cont.
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| | 6 Loughborough Road - Quorn Vicarage from 1945 to 2010 Prior to 1945, Quorn Vicarage was a substantial house in what is now the grounds of ...... cont.
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| | Russ Dairies Russ’s dairy was the larger of at least two dairies based in the village around the time ...... cont.
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| | Portrait of Hugo Meynell - 1758 Hugo Meynell bought Quorn Hall in 1753 from Justinian Raynesford and became the second ...... cont.
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| | Company bids for Quorn Country Club shares - 1963 Loughborough Monitor - 4th October 1963
Rexall drug and chemical company, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Court - rear Quorn Court was for many years from the mid c19th the home of the Cradock family. It was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Court - front Quorn Court was for many years from the mid c19th the home of the Cradock family. It was ...... cont.
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| | Interior of Quorn Hall - 1901 Interior of the drawing room, with the window to the left and the fireplace to right. ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Place, High Street, Quorndon, Leicestershire 1886 Interior of the tea room at Quorn Place, showing the fireplace and furnishings. The ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Place, High Street, Quorndon, Leicestershire 1886 Interior of the billiard room at Quorn Place. The Bedford Lemere daybook lists the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Hall 1954 A photograph of Quorn from 1954. At this time it was owned by Loughborough College and ...... cont.
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| | History of Quorn Hall A History of The Nether Hall (Quorn Hall) - source and date unknown.
It was not until ...... cont.
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| | 1921 Map Portion of map showing the centre of the village.
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| | Quorn House stables 1957 Fine horses exercising occasionally in the adjoining paddock give life to these buildings ...... cont.
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| | Poachers attack gamekeepers in Quorn House Park - 1882 Loughborough Advertiser - 27th July 1882
A serious collision between game keepers and ...... cont.
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| | Queer happenings at Quorn students’ party 1953 Loughborough Monitor - 13th November 1953
The passengers in the buses that wound ...... cont.
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| | Sale of White Lodge, Quorn - 1968 Loughborough Monitor - 19th July 1968
The White Lodge, Quorn was put up for auction ...... cont.
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| | History of Quorn House from an article dated 1953 23rd October 1953 – Loughborough Monitor
As long ago as the early 15th century, the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Hall c1950s The home of the Quorn Hunt until the early years of the 20th century. After the Warner ...... 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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| | Boating on the river Soar Photograph of boating on the River Soar by Santa Maria Lodge.
This photograph was ...... cont.
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| | One Ash - a Victorian architectual wonder Loughborough Monitor - 12th June 1953
On the road from Loughborough to Quorn, and ...... cont.
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| | The Hall on the Green, Quorn Loughborough Monitor - 15th March 1963
Efforts are to be made to preserve one of ...... cont.
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| | One Ash, Quorn One Ash is situated within the Parish of Quorn, although it is beyond the main village ...... cont.
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| | Soar Road, Santa Maria Bridge This photograph was taken in the early 1900s and is thought to be one of the first ...... cont.
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Total: 327 artefacts returned over 7 pages