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They are a rare and endangered species the fen tigers. That's the name that the folk of the eastern fenlands used to use to describe themselves.
They were river people who earned an often precarious living with a number of almost extinct skills on the rivers and waterways that drain the counties of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk into the wild waters of the Wash.
Most tigers were farm labourers or fen men for the various local drainage boards. They cleared ditches, mended banks and tended sluices. One thing they all had in common was the need to supplement their meagre wages in all kinds of ways.
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