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Lark Hall Farm, Isleham Fen

History of Lark Hall Farm

A large farm house set back from the river which fell down after the war. The history gos as far back as 1815.

Source: The History of Isleham Fen in the 1930s by Polly Hill, Clare Hall, 1990

Lark Hall Farm OS 1925

before 1905:

Robert Brooks and his brother George start to rent a large part of Lark Hall farm. each brother had his own part of the farmhouse, one of brick, the other of stone. Their father, Charles, was the yardman who looked after the cows and pigs.

See reminiscences of Luther and Allan Brooks in Polly Hill’s The History of Isleham Fen in the 1930s.

1911 Lark Hall Farm

George Henry Brooks, 43, farmer, b Isleham

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Robert Brooks, 32, farmer, b Isleham

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