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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)
INNOVATION 1
PART 15
Although the early thirties were just crawling out of depression there were more large houses being built than cheap semis. The extension to the Piccadilly Line of the Underground railway to Enfield West now called Oakwood, and then to Cockfosters which influenced our move to Southgate was an important event.
Free tickets to try it out were given out to all households in the catchment area. A building project which interested me more, was, however, the new ice rink at Harringay. It was after we had moved to Southgate when I was able to get there, but my pal Harry and I became regulars. Being already able to roller skate made it much easier to get going on ice though not without a few tumbles.
At one of our first visits, we were offered free admission to the evening ice hockey if we would take part in a farcical match with brooms and a football in the interval of the ice hockey. We accepted of course and I seem to remember it brought the house down. Next Monday at school, I found that I had been observed and was asked why I had been acting the clown.
Innovations in materials were less noticeable than other major changes but nonetheless on the way with enormous potential. Plywood soon replaced solid panels in all but the most expensive furniture, after a brief reign of a few decades chipboard came, bringing back the use of veneering which had existed a couple of hundred years earlier.
In our old-fashioned furniture. the wood was solid and in our kitchen the knives were sharp, made before the new stainless steel became de-rigour for cutlery, they had to be cleaned of course and the knife cleaner, a wooden machine with rotary brushes turned with a cast iron handle stood in the kitchen with its tin of abrasive powder nearby.
There was no plastic except celluloid which was highly inflammable and used for little except toys, and ebonite which was used for a while in electrical goods. Even the plug tops for our new electric points were ceramic. Cooking pots and saucepans were iron, vitreous enamel or copper, aluminium came a few years later and stainless-steel way in the future.
Plastic bags were a blessing yet to come, this meant that few groceries were pre-packed, the grocer weighed out your biscuits from a large tin, into a paper bag and the broken ones were sold off cheap.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 17th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1811 - Birth: Elizabeth LAWES-27813, Tanfield Durham England
1821 - Birth: William Herbert LAWES-39195, (Fraudster) Kentish Town Middlesex England
1823 - Christen: James John LAWS-6434, Shoreditch Middlesex England
1827 - Christen: Matilda LAWS-4525, Shoreditch Middlesex England
1869 - Birth: Benjamin LAWS-3344 (Ag Eng labourer), Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1871 - Birth: Samuel H LAWES-44190, (Petrol Salesman)
1873 - Birth: Cuthbert (Railway Clerk) LAWS-5819, Gateshead Durham England
1887 - Birth: Ralph LAWS-20318,
1897 - Baptism: Albert Tudor LAWS-26184, (Engineer) Stockwell Surrey England
1899 - Birth: Janet Sarah Elizabeth LAWS-44527, Peckham Surrey England
1908 - Birth: Cuthbert LAWS-28655, (Fitter) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1912 - Birth: Pierce Kellam LAWS-35429, Pennsylvania United States
1915 - Birth: Homer Huston LAWS-32800, Carroll County Tennessee United States
1919 - Birth: Eileen Elizabeth LAWS-31445,
MARRIAGES
1738 - Marriage: William LAWS-17486 (Shopkeeper) and Elizabeth FISHER-17485, Lowestoft, Suffolk England
1826 - Marriage: William Robert WING-596 and Leah LAWES-592, St Marylebone Middlesex England
1826 - Marriage: William Robert WING-596 and Leah LAWES-592, St Marylebone Middlesex England
1836 - Marriage: Robert MARLEY-21085 and Dorothy LAWS-21086, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1836 - Marriage: Joseph GIBBENS-21083 and Jane LAWS-21084, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1878 - Marriage: James KNIBBS-30483 and Emma L LAWS-30482, New York City, New York United States
1883 - Marriage: Charles Henry LAWS-4055 (Pewterer) and Jane Herbert BOND-5155, Lambeth Surrey England
1730 - Burial: Abraham LAWS-4952, Richmond on Thames Surrey England
1751 - Death: Stephen LAWS-12022, (Labourer) Diss Norfolk England
1881 - Death: Jonah LAWS-6924, (Glassworks Foreman) Gateshead Durham England
1751 - Death: Stephen LAWS-12022, (Labourer) Diss Norfolk England
1881 - Death: Jonah LAWS-6924, (Glassworks Foreman) Gateshead Durham England
1928 - Will Proved: John LAWS-6338, (Dental Surgeon)
1932 - Death: Isabella LAWS-21803,
1937 - Death: Margaret Ellen LAWES-161, Bournemouth Hampshire England
1956 - Death: Bertie LAWS-38631, Chatham Kent England but resided Strood Kent England
1973 - Death: Eleanor Dye LAWS-26473, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1979 - Burial: Mary Jane LAWS-11961, Falkner Green Memorial Park, Victoria Australia
1983 - Death: Marie Therese LAWS-27158, Timaru Canterbury New Zealand
1984 - Probate: Sidney John LAWS-35581, (Groundsman M E C) Oxford Oxfordshire England
1994 - Death: Miller LAWS-18055,
2007 - Death: Douglas Reginald (LAWS-36436, Merchant Seaman) Ashford Kent England
1917 - Occupation: Francis William LAWS-22615, (4th Officer on RMS Olympic)
OTHER BIRTHS
1764 - Baptism: Mary CHARTERS-14106, Torpenhow Cumberland England
1831 - Birth: Charles Lewis ROPER-30027, Triggs, Freggo County, Kentucky United States
1831 - Birth: Charles Lewis ROPER-30027, Triggs, Freggo County, Kentucky United States
1868 - Birth: Anastasia JOHNSON-33614, Roscrea, Tipperary IRELAND
1894 - Birth: Louise DILLON-32542,
1902 - Birth: Muriel JOHNSON-42826, Camberwell Surrey England
1894 - Birth: Louise DILLON-32542,
1902 - Birth: Muriel JOHNSON-42826, Camberwell Surrey England
1917 - Birth: Betty P TYLER-35034, Lambeth Surrey England
1919 - Birth: Eileen E PARKINSON-46915,
OTHER MARRIAGES
1887 - Marriage: Lewis TEALE-14092 (Railway Locomotive Driver) and Eva PARKER-14095, Bramley West Yorkshire England
(My wife's maternal Great Grandparents)
(My wife's maternal Great Grandparents)
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1899 - Death: Edward TERRY-26411,
1925 - Death: Ann Elizabeth OUTBRIDGE-36634, Hexham Northumberland England
1943 - Death: Mary BROOKS-30422, Blackpool Lancashire England
1965 - Burial: Belle M CARPENTER-17072, San Jose, Los Angles California United States
1973 - Death: Robert Henry BELDEN (LAWS)-42152, Spokane Washington United States
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We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy.
We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, dates and reference number, and we will happily do a lookup.
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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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