The museum team are extremely grateful for recollections and memories from local people. They are not only very interesting for people today and provide a wonderful glimpse of Quorn in previous years - but perhaps most importantly, they preserve a record of life in Quorn for future generations.
 |  | 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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 | | Student life at Soar House, Quorn, in the 1960s
Paul Dilks was a student at Loughborough College of Education from 1966 to 1969 and his ...... cont.
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 | | Memories of the USA 82nd Airborne in Quorn – Looking back 76 years!
Mary Totman (nee Webster) and her sister grew up in Quorn in WW2. The family had moved ...... cont.
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| | Phyllis Field (nee Broom), 1917 - 2007
Phyllis Broom was born at what is now 37 Farnham Street in Quorn and lived in the village ...... cont.
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| | William Henry Norman (PC Billy Norman) 1889 to 1958
William Henry (Billy) Norman was born on 29th March 1889 in Oadby. After distinguished ...... cont.
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 | | PC Billy Norman – served in Quorn 1930 to 1944
In the 1980s and 1990s Harry Limbert, who lived in Quorn talked to a lot of the older ...... cont.
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 | | Schooldays at Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary, 1957 to 1961
John Tweedie and his twin brother Jim were at St Barts Primary during the school years ...... cont.
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| | Memories of life in Quorn, by Arthur Long
Tom Long’s name is known by most people in Quorn because of Tom Long’s Meadow, which lies ...... cont.
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| | Lloyd Eric Tomlyn, 1928 to 2016 – Memories of Quorn
Lloyd Eric Tomlyn was born in Mountsorrel in 1928, the son of Eric Dudley Ernest Tomlyn ...... cont.
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 | | Tommy Allen 1911 to 1996
Thomas William Allen was born on 30th April 1911 at 46 Meeting Street and lived in Quorn ...... cont.
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 | | 65 Loughborough Road, Quorn
Occupants of 65 Loughborough Road
For many years 65 Loughborough Road marked the ...... cont.
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| | Vena Grain, 1895 to 1989. Oral history interview from 1985
Vena Grain was born in Leicester on 21st February 1895, and the family moved to Quorn in ...... cont.
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 | | Pillings Lock, Quorn
Pillings Lock is in the Parish of Quorn, to the north-east of the village itself, and is ...... cont.
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 | | The 82nd Airborne in Quorn - memories from Clifford Newton
Clifford Newton, who was brought up in Quorn, kindly contacted Quorn Village On-line ...... cont.
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| | Recollections of a Quorn childhood, 1947 to 1957 - by Bron Worsnip
Bron Worsnip’s father was the Revd Leslie Worsnip, minister of the Baptist Church in ...... cont.
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 | | Ruth Millington, School Secretary 1960 to 1970 - Memories of St Bartholomew’s Primary School
Ruth Millington was the school secretary from 1960 to 1970, at St Bartholomew’s Primary ...... cont.
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| | Memories of St Bartholomew’s Primary School, 1958 to 1964
These memories of St Bartholomew’s Primary School were kindly written for the museum by ...... cont.
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 | | Recollections of Quorn – John Rudkin
John was born in Quorn at 44 Barrow Road (next to Harry Hardy's butchers shop) in 1949. ...... cont.
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 | | Quorn Memories - Maria Ankers, 1939
Loughborough Echo - 21st July 1939
Few local villages can have witnessed greater ...... cont.
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Total: 19 artefacts returned
