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
Projects
Contribute
Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please
let us know using the Contact page or by
emailing capturingcambridge@
Licence
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
not including content on external links as indicated by
.