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Tuesday 10th September 2019 - Number 5906

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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 
my paternal Great Grandfather
This is Robert Henry's Wife 

Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller

My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924

R I P

Gone but not forgotten, this blog is dedicated 
to all those who have borne our illustrious
surnames LAWS and LAWES Worldwide

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A Child of the Twenties

A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

seen from the Nineteen Nineties
by my late father

John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 9.

INNOVATIONS 

Besides cars, the other result of the internal combustion engine was the increasing number of aircraft in the sky. With development forced ahead of WWI, they had now become a practicable though an expensive form of transport. Small air shows with two or three small aeroplanes would tour the summer holiday resorts seeking out a suitable field to set up their circus. They would offer a quick circuit of the town at five bob a go and give a little show of aerobatics. With a small charge for admission to the field, they struggled on for a few years before going broke, or in a very few cases managed to get an airline or charter business going.
As well as these little efforts, the RAF put up an annual show at Hendon which was very impressive at the time, though very small beer by today’s standards. In my late schooldays, I went there on my bike and found a hillside field overlooking the aerodrome where one could see it all for free. The highlight of the show was a low wing monoplane, probably a prototype Hurricane which came through a shallow dive at over three hundred miles an hour. There were still ten years to wait for the first jet engines.
Another lusty industry of my early years was the cinema. The silent screen with its overworked pianist trying to provide theme music was just beginning to give way to the ‘talkies’. Charlie Chaplin carried on without a word eating his boots in ‘The Goldrush’ but the soundtrack was with us and although it all continued to be black and white the musical was on its way and the cinema was moving into its few decades of boom years. One of the more treasured toys of my under ten years was a movie projector and its few cans of film. It had no motor and had to be cranked by hand, like the early movie cameras, but it was well made and worked well. The was no eight millimetres then and it used the full-size 35mm so the films were short and ran perhaps five or ten minutes. I knew them all off by heart before long but this did not detract from the fascination of something that actually worked.   
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, was the new ice rink at Harringay. It was after we had moved to Southgate when I was able to get there, but 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. A brief reign of a few decades before chipboard came, bring 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 on the way for a few years later and stainless steel way in the future. Plastic bags were a blessing yet to come. This means 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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to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Tuesday 10th September

 BIRTHS 
1721 - Baptism: Elinor LAWS-4904, Exeter Devonshire England

1860 - Birth: James LAWS-11392, South Hetton Durham England

1860 - Birth: Joseph Frank LAWES-533, (Coachman) Upton Lovell Wiltshire                   England

1871 - Baptism: Charlotte Maria LAWS-3266, (Laundry)  Acton Middlesex                       England

1876 - Baptism: Thirza Peninnah Arabella LAWS-4156, (Scholar) East Stoke                   Dorset England

1878 - Birth: John William LAWS-5782, (Wagonette Driver)  Hingham Norfolk               England

1889 - Birth: William LAWS-43088, (Smallholder)

1889 - Birth: Bertie James LAWES-12669, (Australian Army)  Leichhardt,
           New South Wales Australia

1899 - Birth: Robert W LAWES-47442, (Electrical Fitter)

1902 - Birth: Brian LAWES-34101, (Ships Steward) Southampton Hampshire                   England

1903 - Birth: Margaret LAWS-39916, Gateshead Durham England

1905 - Birth: Alice Jane LAWS-48275, West Lexham Norfolk England

1905 - Birth: Wilber H LAWS-40944, Crawford County, Arkansas United States

1907 - Birth: Frank Kenneth LAWES-45333, (Bakers Roundsman)  Putney                       Surrey England

1912 - Birth: Elsie LAWS-37249,

1914 - Birth: Margaret Dobson LAWS-49166,

1914 - Birth: Robert Fruen LAWES-36448,

 MARRIAGES
1866 - Marriage: William Bennett LAWS-29878 and Louisa WEBB-29879,                       Weakley County, Tennessee USA

1881 - Marriage: John ELDRID-17244 (Leather Merchant)  and Emily A LAWS-             5697, (Spinster) Hampstead Middlesex England

1905 - Marriage: Arthur James JONES-22510 and Minnie Dora LAWS-22509,                 Mount Vernon, Franklin County Texas United States

DEATHS and BURIALS 
1820 - Burial: Thomas LAWS-2904, Wareham Dorset England
1900 - Death: Mary Ann LAWS-29703,

1906 - Death: Margert Elizabeth LAWS-29781, Chanut Kansas United States

1941 - Death: Thomas LAWS-37419, Saint Louis Missouri United States

1944 - Death: William Henry LAWS-18912, Los Angeles California United States

1945 - Burial: James Robert LAWS-19086, Hartford, Coffey County Kansas                     United States

1952 - Death: Oliver Alfred LAWS-12245, Salmon Arm British Columbia Canada

1966 - Death: Martha Ann LAWS-38274, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland             England

1979 - Death: Howard LAWS-30033, Unmarried)  Franklin County, Ohio
           United States

1984 - Death: Jake M LAWS-16315, (PVT US Army)  Los Angeles California                   United States

2003 - Death: Edward George LAWS-12341(Turbine Engineer)  Saint Johns Hospital, Springfield Illinois USA

2004 - Death: Charles Richard LAWS-19306,

2007 - Death: Lorraine Doris LAWS-3212, Shepparton Victoria Australia

MISCELLANEOUS 
1914 - Emigration: Alfred William LAWS-10726, (Reverend) Buenos Aires                       Argentina
1914 - Enlistment: John William LAWS-25547, (ARMY Acting Sergeant  2767)               Portsmouth Hampshire England

1967 - Discharged: Murray Barry Milton LAWES-33007, (Chief Petty Officer,                 Writer, Royal Australian Navy) 

OTHER BIRTHS
1871 - Birth: Ellen BATTY-3, North Kensington Middlesex England

1874 - Birth: Elizabeth Emily Bessie SAVILLE-38200, Camberwell Surrey                       England

1874 - Birth: Elizabeth Emily Bessie GRIMANI-13964, Deptford Kent England

1877 - Birth: Martha Hannah SAGE-37940, (Housemaid)  Layham Suffolk                        England

OTHER MARRIAGES


OTHER DEATHS
1909 - Death: Stiles Mounterville TAYLOR-22504, Franklin County Texas 
           United States

 1943 - Death: George CROSS-16150, Goodna, Brisbane Queensland Australia

1951 - Death: William Edward John TAYLOR-48605, (Mason) Seaton and Beer               Devonshire England

1970 - Death: Alicia M JAMISON-14390, Castle Hill, Sydney New South Wales               Australia

2001 - Death: Joan Doreen MARCHANT-34308, Norwich Norfolk 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.

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.


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2008 Olympics Cyclist
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1974-2017
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