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 Phil
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15 Loughborough Road
Quorn LE12 8DU
Tel: 01509 412 571
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Phil has lived in Quorn for most of his life. Born in 1947, he spent his
early life in Beaconsfield Cottage on Loughborough Road, which his grandfather
had purchased around the start of the First World War. Phil’s mother
being a mere toddler when the family moved from nearby Woodhouse.
Phil attended St Bartholomew’s primary school when it was located
in School Lane and has vivid memories of the daily crocodile trudge from
school to the Men’s Institute on Meeting Street (now Allen House)
for school dinner! He later moved on to Loughborough Grammar School and
then Loughborough College where he trained as an industrial chemist.
He married Susan in 1977 and was forced to move to Loughborough, as the
newlyweds could not afford the house prices of Quorn. At the earliest
opportunity though, he returned to the village before moving back to
his roots, in Beaconsfield Cottage, in 1994 with Sue and their only son
Jack, who attended St Bartholomew’s, and is currently at Humphrey
Perkins in Barrow.
A lifetime spent in Quorn has instilled in Phil a desire to put something
back into the village that gave him such an enjoyable and secure childhood.
Particularly a determination to maintain as many traditional aspects
of village life that he so warmly remembers from his younger days. Community
events abounded during the 1950s, fetes, concerts, whist drives, dances
etc. Phil became Chairman of St Bartholomew’s School PTA, known
as FoSBA, in 1994 when it was going through a “bad patch”.
For his contribution he was elected honorary Vice-President in 1999.
But Phil had itchy feet and when the opportunity arose he volunteered
to join a group of villagers keen to coordinate Quorn’s Millennium
Celebrations. He was elected Chairman of that group. One of the successes
of that group was to bring back to the village the May Day Celebrations
that are now re-established as an annual event. Then there were the Fireworks…
As a member of the Parish Council, Phil will continue to develop a sound
community spirit within Quorn.
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