I started this website after my Mum (Audrey Carnson) and her friend Rita Cuss organised four talks and a display on the local history of our Three Holes village. This was for…
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Display of local history in the Three Holes Village Hall
The Three Holes Village Hall and Playing Field Committee has been building on village records compiled over the years at its own previous events and in the book ‘Three Holes, Portrait of…
Houses in Three Holes village
The first eight council houses in Three Holes were built before 1920 for returned First World War soldiers.
World War II in Audrey Watson’s family
Audrey Carnson (nee Watson) remembered her time during the war: We had a good life. We were all poor – probably we were less poor than some, as it was only me…
The knackery
A knackerman is a person who collects dead, dying and injured farm animals and horses, then sells the meat or hides.Jack Waterfield ran the Three Holes knackers yard in Mudd’s Drove in…
Eastern Counties buses
The the green Eastern Counties bus garage opened in 1935. Edna Dalton remembered it being built by labourers who lodged at the Red Hart pub, looked after by Mrs. Fiske. The garage…