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Quorn Village Publications
Various modern day publications exist relating to Quorn
village. Some of these are detailed below along with information on how to
buy.
 The
Kelcey Walks
A special limited edition book, ‘The Kelcey Walks’
lavishly illustrated with photographs from the last century
with an intriguing ‘then and now’ photo section.
Using a series of five walks around the village as written by
the Reverend Edward Food-Kelcey in 1908, you can retrace his
footsteps and easily visualise Quorn as it looked exactly 100
years ago.
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 Bygone Quorn in Photographs
By Don Wix, this is the definitive book about the history of Quorn Village. Over 300 historical images, anecdotes, documents, maps, and records with descriptions and discussion.
>> read more on Bygone Quorn in
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 Quorn
Then and Now
Containing over 400 photographs dating back to the 1890s,‘Quorn
Then And Now is a book by Mike Speight. The book also includes
copies of many interesting documents - including the programme
of events to celebrate the opening of the Village Hall in 1889
and the 1953 Coronation celebrations.
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 Old Quorn Tales and Louie: Her Remarkable East Midlands Life
Old Quorn Tales was written by a local resident, Harry Limbert some years ago. The three volumes contain recollections of many villagers in Quorn, mainly from the early to mid 1900s.
Louie: Her Remarkable East Midlands Life by Jon Turner, tells the story of the life of Louise Burrows. Louise was a teacher at Quorn Primary School and in 1910 became engaged to D H Lawrence.
Reprint is a local private publishing company based in Loughborough. They specialise in local history and have published several books about Quorn.
For more details about these or other books published by Reprint and how to order them, please go to www.reprintuk.com.
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 The Future
In researching the material for this website, we have unearthed literally hundreds of features, articles and photographs relating to Quorn. Our priority is to encompass them all on this site, but at the same time we will be looking to publish some of the material in a printed book. We are already formulating ideas on content, so please watch this space. |
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