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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 | | Quorn Griswold Workers 1896
This item appeared in the newspaper in the second half of last century, but refers to ...... 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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Total: 993 artefacts returned over 20 pages
