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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 16
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late nineteenth century houses, an oblong block held the separate buildings of the Infant school, the Elementary school and the Grammar school.
It was a gently sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford.
The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the Elementary school had their playground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos.
The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings round the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees were well established and were as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.
The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seats all-in-one in pairs.
The first day at school sticks in the memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches, as mothers, nor indeed, married women, in general, didn’t go out to work.
I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. Mother took me and the Headmistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.
Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated with drawing, and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright, and some kids were dim, but everyone learnt, there were no options on offer.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 18th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1796 - Christen: Edward LAWS-6393, (ARMY Pensioner) Folkestone Kent England
1806 - Birth: John LAWES-1255, Fincham Norfolk England
1842 - Birth: Amelia LAWS-3164, (Spinster) Margate Kent England
1860 - Birth: William LAWS-46620, (Hotel Porter/Widower)
1876 - Birth: Arthur LAWS-5125, (Ag Lab) Shoreham Sussex England
1880 - Birth: Grover Nelson LAWS-25170, North Carolina United States
1886 - Birth: John Harry LAWES-120, (Engineers Assistant) Aldershot Hampshire England
1886 - Birth: Albert LAWES-79, (Baker & Breadmaker) Southampton Hampshire England
1893 - Birth: Ernest O LAWS-43044, (Order Book Clerk - Southern Metropolitan
Gas Company)
1897 - Birth: William Charles LAWS-30065, Acton Middlesex England
1898 - Birth: Herbert O LAWS-37580, (Miner - Coal Cutter) Barnsley West Yorkshire England
1899 - Birth: Richard W LAWES-47255, (Boot & Shoe Sole Cutter)
1899 - Birth: Richard Thomas LAWES-24201, Norwich Norfolk England
1906 - Birth: Hubert Leslie LAWS-45392,
1906 - Birth: Herbert Leslie LAWS-33547, (Taxi Driver) Tooting Surrey England
1907 - Birth: Anna Ray LAWS-37562,
1911 - Birth: Reginald Lucas LAWS-22776, (Insurance Agent) South Shields, Durham, England
1912 - Birth: George R LAWS-46630, (Tinsmith Gas Meter)
1912 - Birth: Jack LAWS-35234,
1915 - Birth: Joseph William Christopher LAWS-48525, Rudy, Crawford Arkansas
United States
1917 - Birth: Ivy P LAWES-47787, (Shorthand Typist & Bookkeeper)
MARRIAGES
1789 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-30777 and Ann RYNN-30778, St Pancras Middlesex England
1851 - Marriage: Robert Green Edward LAWS-42691 and Sarah NASH-42692, St Pancras Middlesex England
1853 - Marriage: John Henry LAWS-7978 and Maria Eliza LOFT-7980, Southwark Surrey England
1858 - Marriage: Thomas WEBB-12402 (Carpenter) and Elizabeth LAWS-12403,
East Claydon Buckinghamshire England
East Claydon Buckinghamshire England
1892 - Marriage: William REED-41272 and Marg LAWS-41273, Carlisle Cumberland England
1860 - Burial: Benjamin James LAWS-32571, Plumstead Kent England
1879 - Death: Luke LAWS-24863, Costessey Norfolk England
1886 - Death: William James LAWES-568, (Annuitant "Isaac Bawcombe") Fordingbridge, Hampshire but buried at Mortimer West End Hampshire England
1888 - Death: Stephen LAWES-2040, (Baker) Lymington Hampshire England
1914 -Death: Herbert William John LAWES-31593, (ARMY Private S/294) Killed in Action, Fleurbaix FRANCE
1916 - Death: Hilda May LAWS-15807, Kenley Surrey England
1888 - Death: Stephen LAWES-2040, (Baker) Lymington Hampshire England
1914 -Death: Herbert William John LAWES-31593, (ARMY Private S/294) Killed in Action, Fleurbaix FRANCE
1916 - Death: Hilda May LAWS-15807, Kenley Surrey England
1934 - Death: Audrey May LAWES-33361, Exeter Devonshire England
1934 - Death: Albert Edward LAWS-15492, (Ag Lab) Stradsett Norfolk England
1938 - Death: Gertrude Henrietta LAWS-15493, Stradsett Norfolk England
1958 - Death: Miriam LAWS-25414, (Widow)
1992 - Death: Margaret A LAWS-16603, (A1/C US Air Force)
1993 - Death: Catherine Jewel LAWS-16482, (PV2 US Army)
1850 - Occupation: Stephen Andrew (Master Mariner) LAWS-31750,
1883 - Residence: Isabella JOHNSTONE-31788, Earsdon Northumberland England
1943 - Residence: Elizabeth BOWMAKER-36181, Sunderland Durham England
OTHER BIRTHS
1855 - Baptism: David Charles (Railway Porter) WARWICK-40622, Ferozepore, Bengal INDIA
1882 - Birth: Lilian A CORNELL-40446,
1904 - Birth: William Manford BERTHOLF-40927, St Louis MO United States
1882 - Birth: Lilian A CORNELL-40446,
1904 - Birth: William Manford BERTHOLF-40927, St Louis MO United States
OTHER MARRIAGES
1797 - Marriage: John PEEL-19439 (Caldbeck huntsman) and Mary WHITE-19440,
Gretna Green Dumfries Scotland
(A distant relative of my wife's mother)
Gretna Green Dumfries Scotland
(A distant relative of my wife's mother)
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1991 - Burial: Nellie WARE-20630, Cowes Isle of Wight England
2007 - Death: Violet Annie Frances BISHOPP-47065, Hove Sussex England
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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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