 |  | The Reverend Robert Stammers, Quorndon’s Vicar, an extraordinary 55-year ministry
The Reverend Robert Stammers was the perpetual curate/vicar of Quorn from 1832 to 1888. ...... cont.
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 | | Letter from Quorn Rawlins School - 1987
This letter is relatively recent in the museum’s terms, but might make you smile. It was ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Rawlins Netball Team 1945
Left to Right: Jean Gamble, Mona Austin, Betty Lane, Joy Clements, Marjorie Townsend, ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Brownies 1975
The Quorn Brownies planting a tree in what became Jubilee Garden, part of The Banks, on ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn St Bartholomew’s teapot
This small china teapot is 16cm (6.5 in) long, 8 cm (3.125 ins) wide and 11cm (4.25 ins) ...... cont.
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| | Buddon Wood Farm History – Farming on the border lands
Buddon Wood Farm was an historic property located near Wood Lane in Quorn and part of the ...... cont.
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| | Poole Farm, Quorn – Hugh and Rachael Gibbs 1956-1976
Poole Farm, originally part of the Quorn Hall Estate was sold by Mr. E. H Warner in 1919, ...... cont.
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| | Captain Thomas Farnham, RN (1743-1793)
The Farnham family were a prominent and long-standing landowners in Quorn since 1243, ...... cont.
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 | | 1932/33 Quorn Wesleyan Football Team
Quorn Wesleyans were a forerunner of the current (2026) Quorn Football Club. According to ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Home Guard Final Bulletin no 39, 1st December 1944
On 14th May 1940, Anthony Eden, the Secretary for War created the Local Defence ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Home Guard Bulletin no 18, June 1942, Second Anniversary
On 14th May 1940, Anthony Eden, the Secretary for War created the Local Defence ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Home Guard – Certificate from the King
Eric George Worth joined the 'Quorn' Home Guard in 1941 and remained in the platoon until ...... cont.
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| | 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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 | | Godspell 1986, St Barts Primary School
At the end of the summer term in 1986, the fourth years (now called year 6) at St Barts ...... cont.
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 | | John Donaghue - posted to Quorn in 1940
Introduction
John Donaghue was a freelance journalist and war veteran who, after ...... cont.
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 | | Receipts – Quorndon Local Board and Barrow on Soar Poor Law Union
The two receipts below are dated 24th August 1868 and 8th March 1876 respectively. ...... cont.
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 | | Rawlins School panoramic photograph, 1931
This 'whole school' photograph was taken at Rawlins School in July 1931. At this time the ...... cont.
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 | | Timeline of Station Masters at Quorn & Woodhouse GCR/LNER Station – 1898 to 1963
The Great Central Railway opened fully in 1899, and was the last mainline railway to be ...... 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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 | | Ivy Rennocks – Wright’s Commanders Band, 1930s
Faith Ivy Rennocks (known as Ivy) was born in 1916 and lived with her parents Arthur and ...... cont.
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| | Woolly rhinoceros remains found at Quorn
In 1938 the complete jaw of a woolly rhinoceros was discovered in the Quorn gravel pits ...... cont.
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 | | 1935 Jubilee Celebrations, Quorn – What a float!
This picture was taken at the time of the Silver Jubilee of George V, when Quorn ...... cont.
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 | | PC Thomas Henry Thornton, a Quorn Police Constable
The name PC Thornton crops up in many Quorn newspaper articles between 1899 and 1923. ...... cont.
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 | | HMS Quorn bell - Ella Morag Stewart, baptism
The bell of the Navy’s HMS Quorn was donated to Quorn village when the ship was ...... cont.
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Total: 50 artefacts returned over 2 pages
