Friday 13th February 2026  

Adnett’s grocery shop, High Street, Quorn

Ernest and Joan Adnett ran a grocery shop in Quorn, at what is now (2022) Ferrari’s Restaurant, 4 High Street. They ran their business from the late 1940s until the mid 1960s.

For five years Ken Brown and his great friend Stuart Horrod used to help Ernie with his Saturday deliveries in local villages. The round started in Mountsorrel and went via Swithland Lane to Rothley, Cropston and Thurcaston. They started at 8.00 am and finished about 8.00 pm in the winter and about 5.00 pm in the summer. Back then more people grew veg in their gardens so they didn’t need to buy so much.

The photographs below were taken in the early summer of 1963 when they were on the round. The picture of Ernie was taken on Latimer Road in Cropston, when he was about to get in the van to go to the next stop. The second picture is Stuart, taken in Cropston at the T junction with the road leading to Thurcaston. The third image is Ken sitting on the road sign in the same place.

Ken tells us that Stu and his family lived in a house at the site of the old gasworks in Quorn, his father worked for the gas board and was responsible for all the local gas works in Quorn and surrounding villages.

Ernie died in 1998 and Joan in 2006.

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