Apart from the famous local names such
as Farnham, Warner, Cradock and Firr; this site has plenty of interesting
snippets concerning village folk. You can also use the search box
on the upper right hand side to look for a family surname which interests
you. We would like to expand this section, so if you can supply information
about your family in Quorn, we would be pleased to publish it here.
 |  | 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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 |  | 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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 |  | 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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 |  | 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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 |  | Quorn, the Farnhams and a tangled tale - The Field, 1986 George Farnham was the last member of the historic family to reside in Quorn and would ...... cont.
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 |  | Charles Clutsom – A life in the elastic webbing industry Charles Clutsom was born in Wales in 1886 after which the family moved to Norfolk and ...... cont.
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 |  | Postcard from Lord Lonsdale in 1895 about Quorn Hunt Hugh Cecil Lowther was the 5th Earl of Lonsdale and Master of the Quorn Hunt from 1893 to ...... cont.
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 |  | Memories of Outdoor Work for M W Wright & Sons by Marlene Bradshaw nee Lidierth Marlene Lidierth grew up in Quorn in the 1950s and lived with her family at 33 Castledine ...... cont.
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 |  | Opening of Quorn Cricket Club Pavilion in 1928 George Francis Farnham secured the future of Quorn’s cricket ground, Caves Field in 1926. ...... cont.
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 |  | Corner of Woodhouse Road and Loughborough Road, Quorn, about 1905 Looking up Woodhouse Road from Loughborough Road, about 1905
The house on the right is ...... cont.
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 |  | General William Booth in Quorn 1905 General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, driving through Quorn Cross on his ...... cont.
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 |  | Richard Tunnecliffe – A photographer of Quorn Richard Anthony Tunnecliffe from Seacombe, Wallasey on the Wirral was a keen and skilled ...... cont.
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 |  | Edward Handley Warner and Jessie Nancy Warner of Quorn Hall Edward Handley Warner was born in Loughborough in 1850. His father (Edward Warner) owned ...... cont.
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 |  | Lily Allen - One Hundred Years in Quorn This article about Lily Allen was written by Kate Hutchinson in 2006, the year of Lily’s ...... cont.
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 |  | John Alfred Le Mesurier Hayward, Quorn Place, 1857 to 1922 In the chancel of St Bartholomew’s Church, in front of the altar, is a brass hanging lamp ...... cont.
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 |  | The Quorn Music Hall Society In 1972, it was suggested to the Swimming Pool Committee, which had been formed to ...... cont.
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 |  | The Blackies Sunday Shooting Group, late 1970s This is a photograph of a group of Quorn guys and some of their friends, who were the ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Swimming Pool - Opening Day Programme 1974 The pdf file below is the programme for the opening day of Quorn Swimming Pool on 11th ...... cont.
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 |  | Frank Facer and The Hall on the Green, Quorn Harry Facer and his wife Ann moved to Quorn in the 1860s and had eleven children, so the ...... cont.
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 |  | Medal re opening of Swithland Reservoir, Sept 1896 Where the medal came from
The medal below was issued on the opening of Swithland ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Excelsior FC – Leicestershire Shield runners up 1904/1905 The small shield below is inscribed:
“Leicestershire Shield 1904-5 Runners-Up” ...... cont.
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 |  | The Warner Family at Quorndon Hall. 1855 – 1919 The Warner family who had gained their wealth from the Loughborough wool and hosiery ...... cont.
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 |  | Wedding at Quorn, 1984 In 1984 the wedding of choir member Joanna Shacklock to Peter Mackey took place at Quorn ...... cont.
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 |  | Letter from a Quorn Prisoner of War, 1st December 1947 Early in 1943, the Quorn House stable block and several acres of park land were ...... cont.
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 |  | White Hart, Quorn, matchbox label, 1980s This is a matchbox label, from a box of promotional matches, either given out or sold at ...... cont.
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 |  | Inaugural Meeting of Quorn Rawlins Old Girls Association, 1956 Thomas Rawlins Grammar School became girls only in 1948 and in 1956 an Old Girls ...... cont.
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 |  | William Henry Fewkes, 1861 to 1930 The Fewkes family can trace its roots in Quorn back to the early 1600s and may well have ...... cont.
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 |  | Wright’s presentation watch, Miss Ellen Ball 1953 Ellen Ball, known as Nell or Nellie, was born in Quorn in 1888. She worked at Wright’s ...... cont.
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 |  | John Mellor Cars, Wood Lane, Quorn John Mellor Cars had premises in Loughborough and Quorn. The Quorn garage was on the ...... cont.
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 |  | The Gartshores of Quorn - Restoring gravestones The attached document was written by David Kirkby, a descendent of the Gartshores of ...... cont.
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 |  | M Wright and Sons, WW2, producing military webbing for the USA M Wright and Sons Ltd of Quorn produced American webbing alongside British military ...... cont.
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 |  | Two Crescent Hosiery Co. Ltd, Quorn Two Crescent Hosiery Co. Ltd was a hosiery company founded by George Farnham of Quorn ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn D-Day 80th Commemoration - 2024 In 2023 Quorn Local History Group created a project fund to assist groups or individuals ...... cont.
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 |  | A Barge from Cupitt’s Coal Wharf, Quorn; at Mountsorrel Wharf, 1908 Explaining the Pictures
Photographs 1 and 2 were taken at Mountsorrel Wharf in ...... cont.
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 |  | Motoring Fatality, 1930 Bull in the Hollow, Quorn The Leicester Mail, Friday April 4th 1930
Terrible Motoring Fatality Near Quorn ...... cont.
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 |  | The exceptional Quorn floods of 1875 Although Quorn had always flooded, July 1875 saw the worst floods that the village had ...... cont.
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 |  | Alfred Thomas Warbis – The Old Bulls Head, Quorn Alfred Thomas Warbis worked in advertising, but in addition produced 1,000s of pen and ...... cont.
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 |  | Rawlins School Headteachers and Badges/Logos 1892 to 2023 Rawlins School has had 10 headteachers/principals and six badges/logos between its ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Fields Farm History – The Hickling family and farm sale in 1974 Quorn Fields Farm was situated down a long track off Barrow Road, now known as Flesh ...... cont.
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 |  | Condemned to Death for Sheep Stealing, 1828 On 9th August 1828 the Leicester Chronicle reported that William Rudkin aged 47, his son ...... cont.
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 |  | H.M.S QUORN Bell – Quorn Community Library Originating in the Royal Navy, it is a custom to baptise a child under the ship's bell; ...... cont.
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 |  | The Moss family in Quorn and Quorn Fields/Lodge Farm The milk bottle below was dug up from an old tip in Quorn and dates from the 1920s. It is ...... cont.
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 |  | Tragedy at a Quorn bus stop, 1966 Dennis Marchant, with the help of the Loughborough Echo and the Quorn Parish Council ...... cont.
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 |  | John Davys Cradock 1845 - 1921 John Davys Cradock was born in Woodhouse in 1845 but by 1851 the family had moved to ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School panoramic photograph, 1965 This 'whole school' photograph was taken at Rawlins School in 1965, when it was an all ...... cont.
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 |  | W E Cooke - In Buddon Wood, Quorndon This picture, 'In Buddon Wood, Quorndon', from the 1890s, was scanned from an original ...... cont.
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 |  | Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, Master of the Quorn Hunt, 1893-1898 Passing the Farley Way, Loughborough Road junction in Quorn one can hardly help but ...... cont.
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 |  | Obituary for Murray Rumsey from Quorn, 1963 Murray Rumsey came to Quorn in 1910 and settled here, close to his brother, Rev Henry ...... cont.
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 |  | Child drowned at Quorn, 1903 Leicester Chronicle, Saturday 25th April 1903
CHILD DROWNED AT QUORN
On Monday ...... cont.
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 |  | Buddon Wood, Quorn, Trig Point, 1950s Before 1974, Buddon Wood in the south of Quorn Parish, off Wood Lane, was beautiful ...... cont.
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 |  | The History of 94 Meeting Street, Quorn The story of a house in Quorn over 200 years. Sue Griffiths tells us about how her house, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Charities Darts - Beardsley new gift. 1963 Loughborough Monitor - 25th January 1963
The officials of the Quorn Charities Darts ...... cont.
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 |  | Wrights Directory 1899 – Quorn entries Trade directories are a valuable source of information for both the local and family ...... cont.
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 |  | Kelly's Directory 1899 – Quorndon entries Directories are a valuable source of information for both the local and family historian. ...... cont.
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 |  | Poll Book 1841 – Quorndon Entries Poll books were the pre cursor to today’s electoral rolls and were published from the ...... cont.
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 |  | 1939 WW2 Register transcription - Quorn PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE SEARCHING THE PDF REGISTER DOCUMENT BELOW
Searching ...... cont.
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 |  | Frederick Penfold, Quorn stonemason Frederick Richard Penfold was a stonemason who had his business in Quorn.
He married ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn St Bart’s Junior Football Team 1947/48 St Bart’s Junior School Football Team had a series of successes in the late 1940/early ...... cont.
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 |  | The WW2 ‘kids’ from Freehold Street, Quorn Taken in the early 2000s (probably about 2007), this is a photograph of some of the ...... cont.
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 |  | George Gartshore (1830 to 1917), farrier to the Quorn Hunt This document relates to the payment of expenses to George Gartshore by his employer, ...... cont.
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 |  | Trees planted in memory of Quorn resident, Bill Edwards The article below was taken from the Loughborough Echo dated 12th April 2015 when three ...... cont.
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 |  | Sale of the contents of Quorn Court, 1926 For most of the nineteen century and into the twentieth century, Quorn Court on High ...... cont.
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 |  | A fete on Stafford Orchard, 1950s Three ladies enjoying the sunshine at a fete on Stafford Orchard. The one in the middle ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Old People's Fellowship outing, 1959 Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire was a favourite destination for Quorn Old People's ...... cont.
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 |  | Gambles building firm, 1950s Brothers Ron and Aubrey Gamble ran a building firm in Quorn, G Gamble and Sons, which was ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn National School, approx 1892 Loughborough Echo
Friday 28th November 1952
Are You On This Picture?
Quorn Mixed – ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn National School 1900 Loughborough Echo
Friday 19 December 1952
QUORN NATIONAL SCHOOL 1900
The above ...... cont.
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 |  | Thomas Rawlins Grammar School, early 1920s Little is known about this photograph of Thomas Rawlins Grammar School that was probably ...... cont.
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 |  | Louie Burrows, 1888 to 1962 Louie Burrows is featured on the Quorn Old School Heritage Board and many people know ...... cont.
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 |  | 23 Chaveney Road, Quorn – The history of a house This article entitled ‘The House Detective!’ was written by Sue Templeman and appeared in ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn folk, Church Rooms, 1940s Very little is known about this photograph of Quorn folk, taken outside the Church Rooms, ...... cont.
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 |  | Quorn Primary School Football Team, spring 1967 Taken at St Bartholomew’s School when it was at the old School Lane premises. ...... cont.
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 |  | Commonwealth Youth Enterprise Conference 1977 - Quorn visitors Between the 13th and 27th July 1977 Quorn hosted 20 young Commonwealth youth delegates as ...... cont.
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 |  | Adnett’s grocery shop, High Street, Quorn Ernest and Joan Adnett ran a grocery shop in Quorn, at what is now (2022) Ferrari’s ...... cont.
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 |  | Evacuated to Quorn 1941 In 1941, five year old Jackie Lee (then known as Bessie Pearce) and her sister Heather ...... cont.
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 |  | Sad death of the Quorn Parish Clerk – 1852 Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
Friday 26th November ...... cont.
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 |  | Aylward and Son, electrical shop, High Street, Quorn Frederick and Elizabeth Aylward moved to Quorn in about 1935. They lived on Loughborough ...... cont.
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 |  | Wilders/Stevenson/Kerslake photographs The Wilders family came to Quorn from Walton on the Wolds and the first written record of ...... cont.
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 |  | St Bartholomew’s Church Extension, 1995 An extension to provide more facilities for St Bartholomew’s Church had been needed for a ...... cont.
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 |  | The Sequestration Papers of Edward Farnham of Quorndon The Civil Wars between 1642 and 1651, saw armies loyal to King Charles I and Parliament ...... cont.
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 |  | Thomas Delarue from Quorn, 1791 to 1878 Behind so many names in old Quorn records lay stories that have been lost in the passage ...... cont.
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 |  | The Harper family of Buddon Wood House John and Harriett Harper married in 1888 and in the early 1900s the couple and their ...... cont.
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 |  | Bull in the Hollow/Needless Inn The Bull in the Hollow is a well-known landmark, standing as it does on the main road ...... cont.
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 |  | Thomas Rawlins Grammar School badge, about 1920 This enameled school badge shows the original crest of Thomas Rawlins Grammar School. ...... cont.
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 |  | The wedding of Lucy Gartshore and Walter Eli Sutton, 1920 On 22nd May 1920, Lucy Gartshore married Walter Eli Sutton. Lucy lived at what is now 88 ...... cont.
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 |  | Hilda and Mary Harper, Leicester Road, 27th May 1941 Looking down Leicester Road from outside no 14, which is roughly where the entrance to ...... cont.
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 |  | Nut Row, Quorn This is a rare photograph of Nut Row in Quorn, which was a row of cottages off Station ...... cont.
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 |  | William Rodger Johnstone 1902-1990, 15 Chaveney Road William Johnstone, his wife Mary Ellen and their children lived in Quorn for a short time ...... cont.
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 |  | John Henry Boyer Warner, 2 September 1849 – 12 April 1891 JHB as he was known is remembered locally for selecting ‘Quorn’ as the name for a small ...... cont.
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 |  | Rawlins Grammar School, about 1910 Rawlins Grammar School opened in 1892 and moved to its present site in 1897. This ...... cont.
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 |  | King William IVth pub, Leicester Road, 1930s A rare coloured photograph of the King William IVth pub, which stood on Leicester Road, ...... cont.
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 |  | Joyce Chamberlain, Alma Terrace, 1940s This photograph was taken on Alma Terrace off Meeting Street. Alma Terrace was a row of ...... cont.
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Total: 993 artefacts returned over 10 pages