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Autobiography of Bill Bowles, Mole Catcher, Three Holes

9 Oakdene, Flaggrass Hill Road nr March

History of Flaggrass Hill

1939 Flagrass Farm Hill Road

William T Bowles, b 1911, agricultural labourer

Ella M, b 1916

Harry, b 1881, assist son on farm

Mary E, b 1880

Kenneth H H, b 1917, mole trapper

The Bowles family had lived at Three Holes, Upwell.

Bill Bowles’s autobiography describes in detail his life at Flaggrass including the method of mole catching. A farmer once bet 10s him that he couldn’t clear his land within a week. He did but the farmer wouldn’t pay. So Bill let loose on his land as many moles as he could find. Once he caught an albino mole.

Retirement of mole catcher Bill Bowles, 1976

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