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Family Events for today 23rd February
1732 - Indicted: Lucy LAWS-38288, Old Bailey, London
1786 - Marriage: William LAWES-10 and Hannah NEWMAN-11, Rockbourne HAM UK
1819 - Residence: Robert LAWS-38608, Borough SRY UK
1823 - Baptism: Stephen LAWS-31009, Diss NFK UK
1828 - Baptism: Jerimiah LAWS-31010, Diss NFK UK
1832 - Baptism: Charlotte LAWS-28683, London MDX (St GHS) UK
1861 - Death: Elizabeth LAWS-58467, Fincham NFK UK
1862 - Baptism: Samuel Benjamin LAWS (Railway Porter / Groom)-3668, Horstead NFK
1879 - Death: Annie LAWS-41275, Prudhoe NBL UK
1882 - Death: Henry LAWS Scholar) -3788, Southwold SFK UK
1887 - Birth: Sydney George LAWS-123392, West Ham ESS UK
1890 - Baptism: Sidney James LAWES-43244, Coombe Bissett WIL UK
1891 - Birth: Edwin James LAWES (Canadian Army Private) -38776, Bishops Waltham HAM UK
1897 - Birth: Arthur LAWS- (Contractors labourer) 52696, Wareham DOR UK
1904 - Birth: Alexander LAWS-58063,
1905 - Birth: Ethel Maud LAWES-57992, Goulburn NSW AUSRALIA
1910 - Will Proved: Sarah LAWS (Widow) -8866,
1912 - Birth: Kermit S LAWS-42363,
1913 - Birth: Phyllis Muriel LAWS-58663,
1914 - Birth: Violet LAWS-118775,
1914 - Death: William George LAWS (Optical Turner) -167913, Holloway MDX UK
1915 - Discharged: James LAWS (ARMY Private 1073) -38848,
1916 - Birth: Rosina Mabel LAWES-54372,
1918 - Death: Veronica Perpetua LAWES (Spinster) -772, Romford ESS UK
1918 - Birth: Betty LAWES-29276, Stamford LIN UK
1923 - Birth: James Ronald LAWS (Australian Army)-32339, Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA
1924 - Death: Hannah LAWES-30578,
1931 - Birth: Anthony Northan LAWES (Company Director) -46407, Croydon SRY UK
1933 - Death: Samuel LAWS (Gamekeeper) -8931,
1940 - Miscellaneous: Ernest Henry LAWES (Audit Clerk) -107637,
1940 - Admon: Ernest Charles LAWES (Warehouseman) -59274,
1940 - Birth: Peter LAWS-118680,
1944 - Birth: James Earl LAWS-40165, Matagorda Co TX
1949 - Death: Jane Kathleen LAWES (NAVY Wren 98831 HMS Ariel) -50833, Warrington CHS UK
1951 - Death: Hammond William LAWS- (Insurance Agent) 35419, NEW ZEALAND
1954 - Death: Merle Edith LAWS-46071, Newtown NSW AUSTRALIA
1968 - Birth: Cathy Mae LAWS-40502, TX USA
1979 - Birth: Jennifer Amber LAWS-40641, TX USA
1980 - Marriage: John LAWS-34105 and Gail Margaret GAMBLE (Nursing Assistant) -34104, Green River WY USA
1980 - Death: Homer Steve LAWS-42276,
1983 - Birth: Aidan Elliot LAWES-46895, Pembury KEN
1983 - Birth: Aidan Richard LAWES-115686,
1989 - Birth: Courtney Linford LAWES (Professional Rugby Player) -120966, Hackney MDX UK
1999 - Death: Bertha Lou LAWS-125484, Wilkes County NC United States
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1724 - Birth: Jane ROBINSON-115452, Newcastle upon Tyne NBL UK
1840 - Baptism: Charles HATTON-44974, Newnham GLS UK
1852 - Birth: Flavius Josephus VEAZEY-124248, Granville Co NC USA
1885 - Death: Susannah LATELY STANNARD FORMERLY MARSH-4462, Lyminge KEN UK
1894 - Birth: William Alfred BUNTON-4785, Kings Lynn NFK UK
1905 - Birth: May Louise COOPER-BLOOM-28725, Oxford OXF
1921 - Death: Martha Ann BEELEY-45557, East Dulwich SRY UK
1927 - Birth: Maryvonne PETITPIERRE-9138, Hendon MDX UK
1934 - Birth: Peggie Jean ALLEN-167441, Bradford TN USA
1991 - Death: Bernice Maud BRUNTNELL-31822, Gordon, NSW AUSTRALIA
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A suburban childhood of the Twenties
seen from the Ninteen Nineties
by my late father John Robert Laws 1921-2008
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A Child of the Twenties
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
seen from the Ninteen Nineties
by my late father John Robert Laws 1921-2008
One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the
buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers
during the National Strike of 1926. What a good job there were no television
cameras to encourage the attackers.
As well as the main shopping area in Green
Lanes there were a few little shops around the railway station. The sweet shop
was to me the most important and in those impecunious days many sweet shops
kept a halfpenny and farthing box with a selection of sweets at those prices
for kids with pocket money. It is a sign of of changing times that as I
type this computer throws out the word Farthing as not being in the dictionary.
The dress of the period is familiar from
photographs but the black and white of these photos does not tell us how much
to colours changed. These monochrome photos are perhaps appropriate to the
rather drab colours of every day wear. Grey, black and white were definitely
favourites except for special occasions. Green was thought unlucky by some
though my mother had a brilliant green evening dress for one special occasion.
Red tended to be associated with the immoral so one was left with brown and
blue and usually dark at that. Even holiday wear was much less colourful, white
flannels and a navy blue blazer being about the height of seaside fashion for
Pater families. The ladies did much better with flower patterned fabrics. For
better or for worse the mini skirt hadn't been invented and bikini was still
the name of an unknown Pacific island.
Among the street people with distinctive
dress the policeman stood out. A big man in his navy blue tunic and trousers, a
leather belt around his middle with a bull’s-eye torch at the rear and his
outfit completed with a proper Bobbies helmet on his head and big black boots
on his feet for pavement pounding. Just occasionally his whistle might be heard
shrilling as he chased some malefactor down the road. More often he was seen
but not heard as he came by on foot or on his bike with his rain cape neatly
folded over the handlebars.
Our family doctor lived just across the way in a sizable corner
house. I saw him from time to time when I had various childhood ailments but
his likeness escapes me. My mother always thought me thin and needing fattening
up but rather doubting when the doctor included pork in his dietary
recommendations. Anyway I ate like a horse the only dislike I can remember was
the kidney in steak and kidney pudding. The doctor had installed a machine for
'sun-ray treatment' and my mother took me over to him several times for a dose
of the beneficial light. It was some sort of ultra violet light emission which
would no frighten a quack silly today but in small doses probably did neither
good or harm.
INOVATION
The twenties and early thirties were a
period of innovation in the home. Discoveries made in earlier decades started
to come to fruition as household hardware, consumer durables stated to flow
into the home. It was only the first wave of course; the flood was released
after the war onto the earlier infrastructure.
The first innovation in my world was the
gramophone which ousted the piano-player largely on account of size I suspect
as the reproduction from the brittle single sided records was less than good.
We must have missed a couple of stages in this development as I did not see a
cylinder playing phonograph until friend produced one from a
junkshop a year or two later. Nor do I remember a Gramophone with a big horn on
top. Ours had the horn hidden away in its polished woodwork and the only music
from it which struck a chord in my memory was Toseelli’s Seranade.
The radio seems to have come at the same
time as the gramophone not true of course, but a childhood impression. The
crystal set was impressive hardware then even if the output that came through
the earphones all the way from Daventry was erratic and to me uninteresting ,
Fiddling with the ‘cats whisker’ to try and coax the best reception from
the as of yet untamed crystal was much more to my taste.
The crystal set was not with us long; Soon
battery powered sets with varying numbers of mysterious glowing thermionic
valves took over with better reception and more to go wrong. Aerial poles
sprouted at the foot of most gardens, harbingers of the later ugly skyline
rash. Two batteries were needed to work these sets, a large HT battery which
just wore out and had to be replaced and a lead acid accumulator which had to
be recharged at the shop down the road, all this power made the use of a
loudspeaker possible. It stood on top of the cabinet housing all the bits and
its curly metal horn was now really audible.
For me change began with the coming of
electric light, just the tip of the innovation iceberg as the electric supply
network built up. In with the electric light came the electric points as we
called the outlets, only one in a room to start with just for a reading
lamp perhaps. The radio, which we called the wireless with a wry smile, it had
more wires than any other previous domestic item, was now released from the
tyranny of the accumulator as mains powered sets arrived. The voice from the
trumpet of your loud speaker no longer started to fade as the battery power ran
down. It is odd to think that a considerably later innovation the replacement
of the valve by the transistor, brought back the rechargeable battery but in a
small and convenient form.
With the plugging in of the new radios the
electric supply had started on its trail of removing chores from the household.
The next arrival after the radio was the electric fire which rapidly penetrated
into every home with electric supply and brought quick warmth. More flexible
than the older gas fire was, it was even more useful before central heating
became commonplace.
Following it up the front steps came the
vacuum cleaner salesman, the first and probable the greatest beneficiary of the
small electric motor in the domestic field, except the housewife of course. No
longer were the clouds of dust raised as the bass broom worked its way down the
stairs and through the hall to the back door. The volume of dirt in the house
was reduced but the battle could not be won until the open coal fire was on the
way out.
Somehow progress was slow with the
electric cooker which did not really become controllable until my childhood was
well into double figures. Gas and solid fuel cookers continued to spread dirt
in the home but were the easiest and cheapest stoves to use and even now hold
material portion of the market.
The only other innovation to compare with
electricity was the motor vehicle. It had been invented some thirty odd years
before, but development and cost reduction took time, and I was about four
years old when my father bought his first car, a bull nosed Morris, built like
a tank but a troublesome beast. It was 1925 and there were not a lot of cars on
the road, the speed limit was 20 mph and although this lasted very little
longer my dad managed to get fined for exceeding it before it was changed.
Houses had no garages, and the car was housed about half a mile away where a
garage proprietor had a few lockup garages besides his scruffy workshop. The
Morris was only used at weekends and holidays and although it was a lovely toy
for my dad I thought it a bit of a bore and escaped from it as soon as I was
old enough to ride a bike on the road.
Perhaps the most innovative thing about
our car was that my mother learnt to drive it, scarcely the done thing at that
time. By the time I was ten she had one of her own, a little open topped Singer
which was far more to my taste and could be pushed up to 60mph “Don’t tell your
father!” There road system was getting some improvement in the twenties and a
few new roads space was left for a second carriageway, often it got left for
another thirty years.
At some point my father changed his Morris for a Chrysler which
went much father, too fast in fact to get round the Anglo-Saxon corners of East
Anglia, where he wrote it off and landed himself in hospital for a day or two,
seat belts were a much later innovation, after that he got a sedate Hillman
which lasted the rest of his days.
To be continued tomorro
Part 8.
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