What's On in Quorn

 
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Quorn Local History Group - The history of 94 Meeting Street - Sue Griffiths

Thursday 30th July 2026

Church Rooms
7.00pm, doors open for refreshments and chat at 6.30pm
Members £2, guests £4. No need to book

From 'The Bird in Hand' pub to 94 Meeting Street: a house through 200 years - Sue tells the story of her house, from the early 1800s up to 2025 - the people who owned it, the people who lived in it (including a hand-loom weaver, a butler and a railway ganger), and what became of them all.

NOTE: This talk was postponed in June due to the heat.
30th July was going to be a members only guided walk around Quorn St Barts Churchyard with Sue Templeman. This will be rescheduled.

Email: quornlhg@gmail.com
Web: www.quorndon.com/localhistory/

Hathern Band Summer Concert in Stafford Orchard

Sunday 16th August 2026

Stafford Orchard, Quorn
3.00pm to 3.45pm and 4.15pm to 5.00pm
FREE

Hathern Band is a First Section contesting brass band in Leicestershire with more than 160 years of history and Quorn Parish Council is delighted to welcome them once again for their annual Summer Concert in Stafford Orchard.

The programme will be made up of popular pieces from the bands’ wide repertoire. Performances will take place at under the marquee on the entertainment area.

Stafford Orchard offers plenty of grassy space for picnics in sun or shade and a nearby café in the Old School.

This is a free event sponsored by the Parish Council and is open to all, so pack up a picnic, bring the dog and the children, something to sit on and join the community, hopefully in the sunshine, at the Hathern Band Summer Concert.

Tel: 01509 458 280
Email: adminassistant@quorndon.org
Web: www.quornparishcouncil.gov.uk

Great Central Railway Beer, Cider and Gin Festival

Friday 18th September to Sunday 20th September 2026

Great Central Railway
11.00am

Thursday is a diesel running day with only the Loughborough bar open from 3.00pm. Friday onwards all three bars are open 11.00am to 11.00pm. Live music at Quorn and Rothley. Free entry to the bars just require to purchase a ticket for train travel along the line.

Tel: 01509 632323
Email: Tom.stewart@gcrailway.co.uk
Web: www.gcrailway.co.uk

National Emergency Briefing (Film)

Saturday 19th September 2026

Quorn Village Hall
6.30pm
Free

This is a 45-minute film revealing key points on the climate crisis made by the UK's top climate and nature scientists. It's free, no reservations are necessary and all are welcome. It will be followed by a short discussion.

The film was shown in Loughborough in May, but this will be the first public screening in any of the surrounding villages.

Tel: 07884 432 011
Email: richard_guise@yahoo.com
Web: www.nebriefing.org/

Quorn Local History Group - Flooding in Quorn - Duncan Jack

Thursday 24th September 2026

Quorn Church Rooms
7.00pm, doors open 6.30pm
Members £2, guests £4. No need to book

Ahead of the next flooding season, Duncan looks at the changing nature of flooding in Quorn over the last 250 years.

Email: quornlhg@gmail.com
Web: www.quorndon.com/localhistory/

Quorn Local History Group - Crime and Punishment - John Adsley

Thursday 29th October 2026

Quorn Church Rooms
7.00pm, doors open 6.30pm
Members £2, guests £4. No need to book

A Just Measure of Pain - John will look at the changing definitions of criminality over the last 1000 years, the changing attitudes to punishment and measures to tackle crime in Britain. He will focus upon some celebrated cases including a notorious organised criminal gang in the Middle Ages, the hanging of an Earl and the greatest number hanged in one day, - all in Leicestershire. He will also focus upon several one-time residents of Quorn who were sentenced to death across three centuries and their stories.

Email: quornlhg@gmail.com
Web: www.quorndon.com/localhistory/

Quorn Local History Group - Lady Jane Grey - Sally Henshaw

Thursday 26th November 2026

Quorn Church Rooms
7.00pm, doors open 6.30pm
Members £2, guests £4. No need to book

Lady Jane Grey is shown in the Paul Delaroche painting as a saint and martyr, but there is more to her story than this Victorian depiction suggests. Jane, from Bradgate in Leicestershire, known as the 'Nine Days Queen' was executed in 1554. Did her royal blood and ambitious relatives make her death inevitable, or could it have been different?

Email: quornlhg@gmail.com
Web: www.quorndon.com/localhistory/