Justin Davies wrote an obituary for my dad in the local magazine, Welle-in-Touch. “Born 24th September 1923 Died 27th January 1999 Stuart [Malcolm Stuart Maxwell] Carnson was the second son of a Methodist Minister. The...
Read MoreThree Holes is a ‘blink-and-you-miss-it’ village in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, depending on which side of the road you live. It is at the junction of the Popham’s Eau and the Middle Level 16 Foot River, between...
Read MoreSt. Peter’s Church in Upwell is justly famous for its carved angels which appear to hold up the roof and the magnificent pulpit with its figure of St Peter. The North gallery was added and the West gallery enlarged between 1836...
Read MoreEvery time I go back to Upwell I try to go to the Church as it feel so familiar and is the one unchanging thing that I find when I visit. It is a fine stone building, with angels in the roof and spectacular carvings on the front...
Read MoreAccording to a newspaper article in the Wisbech Standard, 7 Nov. 1980, Upwell used to have three religious houses. One was Meremound Priory where Marmont Priory Farm is now. The farm dates from the 18th century, but is said to...
Read MoreThe area seems always to have had a huge number of pubs, although there are fewer now, and they are used as houses or shut or falling down. Pigot’s Directory of Cambridgeshire Index of Inns & Hotels, Taverns and Public...
Read MoreMum remembers: moving to Three Holes “We moved to the house at the top of Mumby’s Drove, Three Holes, when I was 3 or 4. This was a step up for us as Mum and Dad were buying the property and when I look back I find it hard...
Read MoreMy mum, Audrey Carnson wrote what she remembered of her childhood in Upwell. She was born Audrey Evelyn Watson on 2 Mar 1929 and died on 7 Jul 2004 in Kings Lynn. The 1930s When Anne first asked me to remember my early years and...
Read MoreThe area around Three Holes and Upwell used to be a swamp, and would have looked a lot like Wicken Fen, near Soham in Cambridgeshire does today. Local people traveled on boats and fished for eels. They did not want the fens...
Read More1. Read the instructions for submitting images. 2. Follow those instructions – yes they do apply to you. If the instructions say “300 dpi (dots per inch) and A4 size”, that effectively means that the image will be printed...
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