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I started this website after my Mum (Audrey Carnson) and her friend Rita Cuss organised four talks and a display […]

Three Holes: Portrait of a fen village

The Three Holes Village Hall and Playing Field Committee has been building on village records compiled over the years at

The first eight council houses in Three Holes were built before 1920 for returned First World War soldiers.

Audrey Carnson (nee Watson) remembered her time during the war: We had a good life. We were all poor –

A knackerman is a person who collects dead, dying and injured farm animals and horses, then sells the meat or

The the green Eastern Counties bus garage opened in 1935. Edna Dalton remembered it being built by labourers who lodged

Warby’s shop Murrell Warby the 3rd, son of John and Katherine, grandson of the original Murrell, became a shopkeeper, running

The censuses give information about farmers and farming in Three Holes over the years. It is easy to find on

Three Holes Soldiers’ fund. During the Second World War, a committee raised money for service men and women from Three

The census of 1851 gives us a picture of families in Three Holes; what jobs they had and where they