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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)
Food and more
PART 29
Food was important. For some it was in short supply; for all, it was seasonal and generally less wide-ranging than it is now. Until the coming of the fridge, for us in the early thirties, keeping food fresh in summer was a problem and a variety of methods were used, The larder was mandatory in all houses built from the nineteenth century until quite recently, in large houses it became a small walk-in room.
Even father, who was a good trencherman, did not feel the need for cheese and biscuits at the end of Sunday lunch.
Meat was often given special accommodation in a small ‘meat safe’ with perforated zinc sides to keep out the flies. This stood outside the house in the shade often near the back door. In hot weather, milk would be boiled as soon as it was delivered and in summer generally, it was stood in a shallow tray of water with a cover of muslin or terra cotta to soak up the water and keep it cool. These methods must still be in use in a few households but they are bygones for most of us.
It was not always summer, however, and in winter it was normal to eat, more as well as to wear more clothes, to keep out the cold of poorly heated houses and workplaces. Quantity was of more importance than quality, not that wives and mothers were less interested in quality, simply which standards were lower and money went further if you only cut away the inedible rather than all the rough bits.
It was widely recognized that if bread was a bit hard it would be ‘harder where there’s none’.
Our household was fortunate that ‘paterfamilias’ was ‘a good provider’ in the language of the day. Moreover, my mother was a good cook though she would have turned her nose up at squid or octopus and olives or wine vinegar were never seen in our larder.
Even the slightly exotic like sweetbreads or whitebait were reserved for father on his evening return from work, probably being reckoned ‘not good for children’ quite apart from the cost. The roast joint was the important mainstay of the diet, more often than not, a sirloin of beef which turned up for Sunday lunch with Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, greens and, a nice rich gravy. The joint would sometimes be mutton, it was not called lamb till much later. Pork was much less frequent, being reckoned to be somewhat hazardous, though with how much reason I don’t know.
It seems an oddity that on the other hand pork sausages were esteemed above beef which were considered in today’s parlance a bit down market.
Sunday’s joint turned up as cold meat on Monday and would be used as a hash or mince the next day or two depending on how much was left. Cold meat would be served up with hot vegetables. I do not remember any salad in my diet as a child.
Season controlled the selection of vegetables, fresh from the greengrocer not frozen from the supermarket, Cabbage was the standby; peas, runner beans, carrots sprouts and spinach came in their turn though I didn’t learn to like spinach till many years later.
There were also unidentified greens or the like, Very occasionally asparagus appeared on the Sunday table pandering to father’s fancy taste. I do not think it really belonged the Devon cuisine, that was my mother’s mainstay.
Later in the week, when the joint was gone, there might be stew or sausages and occasionally fish until Saturday when it was invariably steak and kidney pudding, a good winter warmer if ever there was one.
‘Afters’ too were often good sustaining stuff, stewed fruit and custard were popular in season and sometimes dried apricots or prunes at other times. The real favourites, however, were the apple puddings or blackcurrant puddings closely followed in popularity by Apple Charlotte or bread and butter pudding with a good leavening of raisins.
Suet puddings with dried fruit such as plum duff or roly-poly or the standby syrup pudding came along from time to time but were not quite a regular feature. Pastry was popular and fruit would more often be served in a pie than on its own. There was, of course, no ice cream at home as there were no domestic freezers. Tinned fruit was special but was readily available. Cream was brought round by the milkman once the changeover to bottled milk had taken place and sometimes took the place of custard to everyone’s delight.
To be continued tomorrow
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Family Events
1678 - Christen: Edward LAWES-1527, Folkestone Kent England
1735 - Baptism: Eleanor LAWS-10130, Chillingham Northumberland England
1790 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-11975, Warminster Wiltshire England
1790 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWES-11975, Warminster Wiltshire England
1817 - Christen: Robert LAWS-26773, (Stone Mason) Egton North Yorkshire England
1833 - Baptism: Elizabeth LAWS-10737, London Middlesex England (St GHS)
1860 - Birth: Edwin D LAWS-23272, Crown Point, Lake County Indiana United States
1875 - Birth: Arthur J LAWES-48331, (Assurance Official)
1884 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-42563, (Textile Fitters Labourer)
1898 - Birth: Albert Victor LAWS-28066, (Lamp Lighter) Hove Sussex England
1899 - Birth: William Herbert James LAWES-48372, (Builders Foreman) Norwich Norfolk England
1904 - Birth: Cyril Brunton LAWS-34829, Enfield Wash Middlesex England
1905 - Birth: Frances LAWS-25259,
1907 - Birth: Leslie William LAWES-36461, (Clerical Officer Customs & Excise) Bedminster Dorset England
1908 - Birth: Ernest John LAWS-14678, Spicers Creek New South Wales Australia
1912 - Birth: Harold C J LAWES-50326,
1913 - Birth: Gilbert Lawrence LAWES-40218, (Farmer) Norwich Norfolk England
1917 - Birth: Leonard Stewart LAWS-17950, (Dean Registrar of Southwestern College Kansas)
Pocasset, Grady, Oklahoma, United States
1920 - Birth: Herbert James LAWS-3145, (Prison Officer) Dover Kent England
MARRIAGES
1679 - Marriage: James MURRELL-9818 and Elizabeth LAWES-1887, Norwich Norfolk England
1733 - Marriage: William LAWS-3019 and Ann Louisa BELL-3020, Chopwell Durham England
1774 - Marriage: John LAWS-3659 and Sarah SPALDING-3660, Middlesex County Massachusetts
United States
1783 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-56 and Elizabeth FAITHFULL-57, Amport Hampshire England
1839 - Marriage: Kindred LAWES-25065 (Labourer) and Hannah MYAL-25066, Weston Suffolk England
1862 - Marriage: Edward Frederick LAWS-5458 and Nancy TENDELL-5459, Brenchley Kent England
1883 - Marriage: Charles Alfred LAWES-16080 (Widowed Engine Fitter) and Mary J HOW-27227, Wanstead Essex England
1908 - Marriage: Richard Arthur LAWS-7972 (Clerk for Merchant) and Elsie Marion ROY-18113, Richmond on Thames Surrey England
1794 - Death: Maria LAWES-19859, Ightham Kent England
1859 - Death: William James LAWES-2343, Forest Gate Essex England
1864 - Burial: Jane Ann LAWS-25704, (Infant) Kirby Bedon Norfolk England
1883 - Death: John LAWES-669, (Farm Bailiff)
1864 - Burial: Jane Ann LAWS-25704, (Infant) Kirby Bedon Norfolk England
1883 - Death: John LAWES-669, (Farm Bailiff)
1919 - Death: Eliza LAWES-1951, (Widow) Saint Elizabeths Nursing Home, Helmsdale Gardens,
Hastings Sussex England
1937 - Burial: Percy LAWS-15300, (Outfitters Porter) Wareham Dorset England
1939 - Burial: Cora E LAWS-17065, Perkins Cemetery, Payne Oklahoma United States
1958 - Death: Duncan Willoughby LAWS-37204, Cricklewood Middlesex England
1961 - Death: Frederic LAWS-5763, Sunderland Durham England
but ResidenceHetton le Hole Durham England
1966 - Death: John William David LAWES-26590, (NAVY Jnr NAM 096565 HMS Ganges)
1967 - Death: Lavinia Jane Bennett LAWS-26800, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1980 - Death: Geneva LAWS-22775, Provo Utah United States
1986 - Burial: Douglas LAWS-17072, Broken Arrow, Tulsa Oklahoma United States
1961 - Residence: Walter Robert LAWES-35702, (Sales Supervisor) Ealing Middlesex England
1997 - Death: Frederick Leonard LAWS-45638, Coffs Harbour New South Wales Australia
1857 - Arrival: William LAWS-9397, (Ag Lab)
1857 - Immigration: Charles LAWS-3183, (Farmer) Melbourne, Victoria Australia
1915 - Military: Alan A LAWS-3003, (ARMY Sergeant 624337)#
1947 - Emigration: Patricia Joyce LAWS-41692,
1947 - Emigration: Joyce BUCKERIDGE-41691, formerly resided at Farnborough Hampshire England
OTHER BIRTHS
1827 - Baptism: Isabella CORMACK-20232, Old Machar, Aberdeen Aberdeenshire England
1905 - Birth: Ellen F SIMMONDS-20959,
1905 - Birth: Ellen F SIMMONDS-20959,
1913 - Birth: Benjamin Albert PALMER-25564, Ramah, McKinley, New Mexico United States
1913 - Birth: Albert ROBERTS-20782, Kensington Middlesex England
1913 - Birth: James Herbert LOGAN-12093, Wortley West Yorkshire England
OTHER MARRIAGES
1860 - Marriage: Thomas CHARTERS-26251 & Elizabeth BROWN-26252, Wigton Cumberland England
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1765 - Death: Frederick William HANOVER-22609 (Duke of Cumberland), Leicester House, London
1919 - Death: Daniel Percy JONES-29279, (Warehouse Assistant) Bermondsey Surrey England
1919 - Death: Daniel Percy JONES-29279, (Warehouse Assistant) Bermondsey Surrey England
1931 - Death: Walter Ezra BUNN-3439, Norwich Norfolk England
1944 - Death: Alfred G COLE-47201, Winchester Hampshire England
2000 - Burial: David Laws ERICKSON-8475, Lincoln Center Cemetery, Corning Iowa United States
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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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