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Quorn Postcards
Picture postcards really took off in Britain
in about 1902. They were not only used by tourists, but with up to
seven postal collections and deliveries in a day, they were used by
local people to make arrangements and keep in touch like we use phone
calls, text messages and e mails today. Within towns, a letter or
card posted in the morning would usually be delivered in the afternoon.
Old Quorn postcards provide not only a pictorial, historical record
of the village, but often the messages on the back enable us to eavesdrop
into the lives of people living in Quorn at the time. Sometimes the
details can be linked to other records, enabling us to piece together
stories about families, including their movements and relationships.
By using modern scanning and enhancement techniques, it is often possible
to reveal details on the pictures that either give us more information
or simply make us smile. Quorn owes a debt of gratitude to some of
these talented and diligent photographers of bygone Quorn.
 | | 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.
 | | | |  | | Quorn Cross, early 1960s
Although this view of Quorn looking from Meeting Street up towards Quorn Cross is easily ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Barrow on Soar and Quorn Midland Railway Station
The old, now demolished, Midland Railway Station was very firmly in the Parish of Barrow ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Loughborough Road – Then and Now
This is Loughborough Road, standing opposite Barrow Road, looking from Quorn towards ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Leicester Road floods – Then and Now
The older photograph is difficult to date, but probably 1930s. The view, taken from the ...... cont.
| | | |  | | The Manor House Hotel, Woodhouse Road, Quorn
The Manor House Hotel on Woodhouse Road opened in 1899, the year after the opening of the ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Quorn Hall Lodge, off Meynell Road, early 1900s
There are two former lodges to Quorn Hall and this one is situated off Meynell Road. ...... cont.
| | | |  | | The Little Green, Quorn – Then and Now
Although the old postcard (about 1910) is entitled ‘Cross Brook, Quorn’, the stream is ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Postcard of Quorn St Bartholomew’s Church, pre 1910
This is a slightly unusual view of the Church and shows five boys standing among the ...... cont.
| | | |  | | Stone laying, new Wesleyan Chapel, Quorn, 1907
Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News
Thursday 4th April 1907
NEW ...... cont.
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Total: 128 artefacts returned over 13 pages
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