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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)
Travel
PART 31
The school journeys abroad were more of a revelation than the camps. Package holidays had not yet been dreamed up and although the wealthy might holiday in the South of France or you could ‘Join the Army and see the world’, the general urge to travel was only just beginning.
I recall a book called ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination, the time and the ten pounds to follow its inviting advice. Trips by school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the latter part of the years between the wars.
We went to Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs seemed to be our limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition, grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope towards the Eiffel Tower. The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and a sickle.
What we really enjoyed, however, was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.
Of the conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the white mass of Scare’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city where the ever-present taxis hurtled round corners blaring on their horns. The traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.
Our few days of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau on the channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then, and one which I have never seen since.
Even now there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts, even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.
In 1938 the school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the political troubles which led to the war a year later. We left Southgate tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London and crossed the channel overnight to get to another train to trundle across France and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern Italy.
Milan was just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out on account of our short sleeves.
Florence and Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car, and even as teenagers, I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade which we had discovered. You see little in a couple of days but these visits like the Italian ice cream awakened a taste for more.
No loitering, however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by vaporetta, under the Rialto Bridge and on to St Marks Square and the pigeons. It was memorable and it all matched the guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real revelation.
The water was warm not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting cold. This was the discovery of the journey.
More trains, wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week spent wandering around Rome in later life only scratched the surface.
More trains, more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vendor.
We did not see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a hutted camp, for orphans who were at least fed and clothed while they learned to shout for ‘Il Duce’.
We were treated to a glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian pledging friendship from a uniformed 'Gent' who presumably ran the place.
Back at the hotel that evening we ate at tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I had to pick a small souvenir.
I recall a book called ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination, the time and the ten pounds to follow its inviting advice. Trips by school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the latter part of the years between the wars.
We went to Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs seemed to be our limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition, grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope towards the Eiffel Tower. The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and a sickle.
What we really enjoyed, however, was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.
Of the conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the white mass of Scare’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city where the ever-present taxis hurtled round corners blaring on their horns. The traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.
Our few days of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau on the channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then, and one which I have never seen since.
Even now there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts, even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.
In 1938 the school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the political troubles which led to the war a year later. We left Southgate tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London and crossed the channel overnight to get to another train to trundle across France and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern Italy.
Milan was just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out on account of our short sleeves.
Florence and Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car, and even as teenagers, I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade which we had discovered. You see little in a couple of days but these visits like the Italian ice cream awakened a taste for more.
No loitering, however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by vaporetta, under the Rialto Bridge and on to St Marks Square and the pigeons. It was memorable and it all matched the guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real revelation.
The water was warm not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting cold. This was the discovery of the journey.
More trains, wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week spent wandering around Rome in later life only scratched the surface.
More trains, more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vendor.
We did not see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a hutted camp, for orphans who were at least fed and clothed while they learned to shout for ‘Il Duce’.
We were treated to a glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian pledging friendship from a uniformed 'Gent' who presumably ran the place.
Back at the hotel that evening we ate at tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I had to pick a small souvenir.
To be continued tomorrow
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Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1805 - Birth: John LAWS-3957, (Weaver) Shoreditch Middlesex England
1806 - Christen: Alice LAWS-3926, Folkestone Kent England
1822 - Birth: Samuel LAWS-46133, Beeston Norfolk England
1841 - Birth: William B LAWS-12246, England
1848 - Birth: Edward John LAWS-9639, (Lamp Salesman) Chertsey Surrey England
1851 - Birth: James LAWS-2935, (Ag Lab) Doddington Cambridgeshire England
1854 - Christen: Robert Stephenson LAWS-4247, (Clerk) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1806 - Christen: Alice LAWS-3926, Folkestone Kent England
1822 - Birth: Samuel LAWS-46133, Beeston Norfolk England
1841 - Birth: William B LAWS-12246, England
1848 - Birth: Edward John LAWS-9639, (Lamp Salesman) Chertsey Surrey England
1851 - Birth: James LAWS-2935, (Ag Lab) Doddington Cambridgeshire England
1854 - Christen: Robert Stephenson LAWS-4247, (Clerk) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1867 - Birth: Louisa Jane LAWS-14838, Staines Middlesex England
1869 - Birth: Robert LAWS-43787, (Labourer)
1870 - Birth: Alfred LAWES-48965, (Newspaper Roundsman)
1874 - Birth: Edgar S LAWS-13914,
1879 - Birth: Jerome Alexander LAWS-16735,
1887 - Birth: Mildred M LAWS-17792, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1891 - Birth: Edward Ernest LAWS-42171, (Apprentice Engraver - RAF Service Number: 310655)
Islington Middlesex England
Islington Middlesex England
1892 - Birth: Edward LAWES-49060 (Hospital Patient)
1892 - Birth: David LAWS-24434, (RN J4506) Gateshead Durham England
1892 - Birth: David Hugh LAWS-17488, Sunderland Durham England
1894 - Birth: Victor Lorraine LAWS-30055, (Lorry Driver) Clapton Middlesex England
1898 - Birth: George LAWES-16272,
1898 - Birth: Henry Charles LAWS-8620, Bowen, Queensland Australia
1907 - Birth: Essie May LAWS-29481,
1907 - Birth: Leslie LAWES-12979, (Australian Army) Leichhardt, New South Wales Australia
1910 - Birth: William H LAWS-47406, (Motor Body Coach Minder)
1910 - Birth: Lily LAWS-37994, (Age 8 mths) South Shields Durham England
1915 - Birth: Edward A LAWS-44693, (Baker)
1915 - Birth: Clarence L LAWS (Van Salesman)-42338,
1915 - Birth: Thelma Louisa LAWS-11518, Warwick, Queensland Australia
1919 - Birth: Joseph Arthur LAWS-38249, (Labourer at Cement Works)
1920 - Birth: Hubert LAWS-16723, (PFC US Army)
MARRIAGES
1716 - Marriage: George LETTICE-17147 and Thomasine LAWS-17146, Canterbury Kent England
1812 - Marriage: James LAWS-3385 (Merchant Life) and Ann SILVERS-3401, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1843 - Marriage: William Herbert LAWES-39866 (Fraudster) and Ann HOWARD-39867,
Clerkenwell Middlesex England
1855 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-2695 (Ag Lab) and Elizabeth RIX-2697, Felthorpe Norfolk England
1867 - Marriage: James William LAWS-33553 (Boot Maker) and Margaret CHURCHILL-6562, Saint Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
1892 - Marriage: Matthew Mathias ROBERTS-29379 and Elizabeth Frances LAWS-29378, Wellington
New South Wales Australia
1898 - Marriage: John LAWS-4364 (Ag Lab) and Sarah Ann H M DIXON-15714, Feltwell Norfolk England
1843 - Marriage: William Herbert LAWES-39866 (Fraudster) and Ann HOWARD-39867,
Clerkenwell Middlesex England
1855 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-2695 (Ag Lab) and Elizabeth RIX-2697, Felthorpe Norfolk England
1867 - Marriage: James William LAWS-33553 (Boot Maker) and Margaret CHURCHILL-6562, Saint Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
1892 - Marriage: Matthew Mathias ROBERTS-29379 and Elizabeth Frances LAWS-29378, Wellington
New South Wales Australia
1898 - Marriage: John LAWS-4364 (Ag Lab) and Sarah Ann H M DIXON-15714, Feltwell Norfolk England
1910 - Marriage: John LAWS-24709 and Barbara COLLINSON-24710, Ryhope Durham England
1912 - Marriage: William Royal Garnet LAWES-35994 and Irene Catherine HAMILTON-35995,
Sydney New South Wales Australia
Sydney New South Wales Australia
1913 - Marriage: Claude Douglas LAWES-41560 (Machine Parts Salesman) and Mary SWOFFORD- 41568, (Hardware Saleslady) San Francisco, California United States
1799 - Burial: Mary LAWS-19853, Beckenham Kent England
1857 - Death: William LAWES-2348, (Gentleman) Ridgeway Hill, Stapleton Gloucestershire England
1859 - Death: Maria LAWS-7899, (Spinster)
1872 - Death: Charlotte LAWS-5306, (Spinster) Ipswich Suffolk England
1900 - Death: Muriel Kline LAWS-36257, Balmain New South Wales Australia
1904 - Burial: Laura Isabel LAWS-28126, Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1932 - Death: Thomas LAWS-19841, (Dog Catcher) Ogden, Webber County Utah United States
1933 - Death: Emma LAWES-2613, (Widow) Woking Surrey England
1935 - Death: George Frederick LAWS-15441, (Market Gardener) The Lodge, Kingsfield, Dartford Kent England
1941 - Death: Reginald Frederick LAWES-39002, Entre Rios Argentina
1954 - Death: Pantha Della LAWS-17190, Rutherford County North Carolina United States
1956 - Death: William Pennington LAWS-15011, Yakima, Yakima County, Washington United States
1961 - Death: Albert Edward John LAWS-6715, (Deputy Naval Stores Officer) Jarrow Durham England
Residence Chatham Kent England
Residence Chatham Kent England
1973 - Death: Clarence LAWES-16617, (PVT US Army)
1979 - Birth: Robert David LAWS-33206, Bradford West Yorkshire England
1980 - Burial: Geneva LAWS-22775, Blanding Utah United States
1987 - Death: Thomas LAWS-8686, (Engineer) High Lorton Cumberland England
1988 - Death: Norman William LAWS-21707, Oakdale New South Wales Australia
1997 - Death: John Richard LAWS-36273,
2002 - Death: Zelma LAWS-11001, Hickory North Carolina United States
2008 - Death: Edward David LAWS-29322, Pakefield Suffolk England
2012 - Death: Marjorie May LAWS-42200,
1914 - Military: John William Oughton LAWS-22296, (ARMY Sapper WR/202714/207480)
Northumberland Fusiliers (Enlistment)
Northumberland Fusiliers (Enlistment)
OTHER BIRTHS
1803 - Baptism: Elizabeth HORNE-13167, Hevingham Norfolk England
1795 - Baptism: Jane CHARTERS-21910, Torpenhow Cumberland England
1802 - Birth: John L Parker EDEN-26750, Stokesley North Yorkshire England
1895 - Birth: Minnie Dorothy CHAPMAN-23110, Westminster Middlesex England
1898 - Birth: Elizabeth WRIGHT-43551, West Hartlepool Durham England
1898 - Birth: Alice Maud ADNAMS-23581, Battersea Surrey England
1913 - Birth: Francis H T BOSHER-45512, (Radio Instrument Maker) Edmonton Middlesex England
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1648 - Death: Elizabeth DALLY-1160,
1825 - Death: Elizabeth RICHMOND - SMITH-3512, Hevingham Norfolk England
1916 - Death: Sarah DOUGLAS-5249, Heaton Northumberland England
1953 - Death: Thomas Roebuck OXTOBY-42006, Bradford West Yorkshire England
1916 - Death: Sarah DOUGLAS-5249, Heaton Northumberland England
1953 - Death: Thomas Roebuck OXTOBY-42006, Bradford West Yorkshire England
1970 - Death: Phyllis Gertrude SOUTH-32477, (School Teacher LCC) Oxford Oxfordshire England
1970 - Death: Ethel Irene MCDANIEL-20427, (Supervisor) Texarkana Miller County Arkansas United States
1993 - Death: Daphna May PEPPLE-16673,
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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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