History talks resume

Quorn Local History Group’s popular talks programme got underway on Monday September 27, with the first live talk for some 19 months when Railway Artist and Quorn and Woodhouse Station Master and historian Jack Arthur Shaw presented ‘Quorn Station - has a strange sound for us’. All agreed it was good to be back and to receive such an interesting talk.

Members have been busy photographing and logging the 700 odd Parish Church closed churchyard monuments. Over 150 have been uploaded to the ‘Find A Grave’ web site so far. This will be a valuable resource to family historians and researchers.

The Unrecorded/Lost Ways project continues apace however, we remain open to more help so if you are a local walker and regularly walk the Slabs to Barrow Road, Loughborough Road to the Woodthorpe Footpath or the canal Woodthorpe Bridge to Moor Lane then we would like to hear from you at quornlhg@gmail.com

As the Queens Platinum Jubilee year approaches the group are asking residents for any photographs or memories of previous village jubilee celebrations to get in touch or pop them into the ‘Drop off’ box in the community library.

We will be welcoming Mike Speight as our guest presenter for the next talk ‘A Quorn Family - 400 years and counting’ on Monday October 25 at St Bartholomews United Church at 7pm.

Mikes talk promises to be something not to be missed as he brings us his own family history, including the Fewkes who were Quorn residents from at least the 1600’s and were builders of many of Quorn’s buildings including the Village Hall, Church Rooms and War Memorial. Not to mention those involved in international smuggling that was to revolutionise the US knitting industry.