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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1891
My paternal great-grandfather
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'A Child of the Twenties'
A suburban childhood of the Twenties
As seen from the Nineteen Nineties
By
John Robert Laws (1921-2008)
INOVATION 1
PART 11
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 junk shop 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 Serenade.
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 un-interesting, fiddling with the ‘cats whisker’ to try and coax the best reception from the as of yet, the 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.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 14th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1769 - Baptism: Mary LAWS-13290, Heddon on the Wall Northumberland England
1778 - Christen: John LAWS-16596, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1790 - Birth: Edward Valentine LAWS-5641, (Vermin Killer / Widower) Fakenham Norfolk England
1812 - Birth: William LAWS-11889, (Ag Lab) Brandiston Norfolk England
1829 - Baptism: James LAWS-22029, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1835 - Birth: George LAWS-5879, (Commercial Manager) London Middlesex England
(St GHS)
1841 - Birth: Mary Ann LAWS-32449, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1851 - Birth: George William LAWS-5002, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1862 - Christen: Jane Elizabeth LAWES-1504, (Dressmaker / Spinster) Burnham Buckinghamshire England
1878 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-43629, (Ag Lab)
1878 - Birth: Alfred L LAWS-42396, (Colliery Repairer)
1880 - Birth: Almon Doddridge LAWS-19358, Indiana United States
1890 - Birth: Herbert Victor LAWS-22282, (RN SS/109446) Reading Berkshire England
1894 - Birth: Francis John LAWS-45772, (Director of Public Works Company) Clapton Middlesex England
1894 - Birth: Thomas Gilbert LAWES-24477, (Officers Mess -Wash Man -Lydd Camp) Aldershot Hampshire England
1896 - Birth: Dorothy Madge LAWS-15408, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1898 - Birth: John LAWS-44792, (Colliery Greaser)
1899 - Birth: Carl Hobson LAWS-11146, Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas United States
1901 - Birth: Mary G LAWS-34077, Peckham Surrey England
1909- Birth: Glenn E LAWS-16710, (PFC US Army)
1910 - Birth: William Eberneezer LAWS-35861, (Postman Driver)
MARRIAGES
1771 - Marriage: James LAWS-4124 and Martha Frances ???-4125, Marylebone Middlesex England
1789 - Marriage: Seth LAWES-2374 (Plumber) and Margaret or Mary WRIGHT-1053, Andover Hampshire England
1892 - Marriage: Charles ROGERS-46595 and Dora Norval LAWS-12655, Fauquier, Virginia, United States
1882 - Burial: William LAWS-7395, (Innkeeper) Waverley New South Wales Australia
1912 - Death: Maria LAWES-2193, (Cook Domestic/Spinster) Orchard Cottage,
North Moreton, Wallingford Berkshire England
1927 - Death: Emma LAWS-32193, (Widow) Sunderland Durham England
1927 - Death: Edgar James LAWES-549, (Publican & Farmer also Civil Service Messenger) Royal Berkshire Hospital Reading Berkshire England
1936 - Death: Margaret Jane Mckenzie LAWS-21592,
1938 - Burial: Dump LAWS-16678, (PVT US Army 4th battalion 155th Depot Brigade)
Long Island NY United States
1960 - Death: William B LAWS-16514, (PVT US Army)
1964 - Burial: Horace LAWS-16722, (PVT US Army) Memphis National Cemetery, Tennessee United States
1975 - Death: Madeline Grace Mathews LAWS-45451, London
1988 - Death: Elijah LAWS-40311, Montgomery Pennsylvania United States
1994 - Death: Opal Mahala LAWS-49655, Arkansas United States
2006 - Death: William Robert LAWS-36635, Coleman, Coleman County Texas United States
2006 - Death: Gweneth May LAWS-35205, Hurstville New South Wales Australia
2009 - Death: Ada LAWS-12800,
MISCELLANEOUS
1918 - Discharged: Arthur Murray LAWS-28779, (ARMY Gunner 755846)
1938 - Miscellaneous: Frederick Stanley LAWS-22270, (RAFVR 41431 Pilot Officer 142 Sqdn)
1948 - Miscellaneous: Maureen Isobel Winifred HOLMES-32312,
1948 - Miscellaneous: Maureen Isobel Winifred HOLMES-32312,
OTHER BIRTHS
1701 - Birth: Mary TATE-612,
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1872 - Death: Mary PATTERSON-14158,
1909- Death: Thomas CHARTERS-21844,
1914 - Death: Edward R (MP & Barrister) WODEHOUSE-11129
1940 - Death: Rudolph Joseph STROHAHN-45983, SS 'Ormonde' Greenock Lanarkshire Scotland
1950 - Death: John James BEZZANT-19891, Mountain Ash, Pontypridd Monmouthshire Wales
1953 - Death: Dora SONES-25850,
1975 - Death: Madelaine Grace Mathews WITHERS-17328, Holland Park Middlesex England
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We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
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Lord, help me dig into the past and sift the sands of time.
That I might find the roots that made this family tree of mine.
Lord, help me trace the ancient roads, on which our fathers trod.
Which led them through so many lands, to find our present sod.
that missing link between some name that ends the same as mine
Lord help me find an ancient book or dusty manuscript,
that's safely hidden now away, in some forgotten crypt.
Lord, let it bridge the gap that haunts my soul when I can't find,
that missing link between some name, that ends the same as mine.
Sharon Nicola LAWS
2008 Olympics Cyclist
Environmental adviser for Rio Tinto Zinc
1974-2017
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