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Saturday 15th February 2020 - Number 5968

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Robert Henry Laws
1828-1881
Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 
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This is Robert Henry's Wife 
Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller
My paternal Great Grandmother
1846-1924

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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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A CHILD OF THE 1920s, 
AS SEEN FROM THE 1990s
by
John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Sport.


The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches, or for cricket in summer as well as grass tennis courts. Sport was encouraged and every Saturday morning there were a big turnout of teams, to compete with other schools. I was no good at football and played in the fifth eleven which regularly lost by astronomical scores. Cricket was a little better and I reached
the second eleven without any great success.
The one sport that interested me was swimming. Having learnt to swim at elementary school, I continued to enjoy it and as the years went by more and more public pools opened up. The first one I used was the old indoor pool at Wood Green. I do not know when this one was opened but my mum & dad had used it before my time. I first used it before I could swim properly and I was so small that the water in the shallow end came up to my chin. 
 Being an indoor pool it was heated. The only other indoor heated pool I came across was somewhere in Tottenham, where I went and swam in an inter-school gala, the details of which escape me. The first of the ‘new’ open-air pools was the Hornsey pool situated between Crouch End and ‘Ally Pally’. It was fine in the summer sunshine and Harry and I used it a few times before we moved away from Wightman Road. After that, we cycled out at weekends to the new pool at Enfield which was more spacious, after swimming we cycled back more slowly with protesting muscles.
Having moved to Southgate, most of my swimming was done in the open-air pool at Barrowell Green. This was an old pool and a little cramped but I spent many happy hours there (instead of doing my homework). The pool was supposed to get a bit of heat from the dust destructor furnace next door but this must have been minimal as the temperature in the early part of the season was often 60-61F, All our school swimming was at this pool and we could get cheap tickets at school (one old penny) for use out of school hours. Unless it was raining, when you could have the pool almost to yourself, there was always a crowd of school friends there, sunning, swimming, fooling and flirting. 
It was a sign of the changing times in the thirties that while this old pool had no car park, just a cramped bicycle area, the new pool at Enfield had a large car park. The latest pool completed in my schooldays was at New Southgate in Durnsford Road. This was the only one I knew with full height high diving boards. This kept the pool noticeably colder than the others and it did not become popular except in very hot weather.    

Wandering.     
 There was little opportunity to wander until going to school opened up new horizons. Once the short walk to school was permitted unaccompanied and a few friends were known the range of life extended. The familiar places were visited first, the lake in Finsbury Park with its ducks, swans and boats was known already, but now more time was spent with the slides and swings than feeding the ducks. 
It cannot always have been summer though because the lake froze and the ducks sat back on their tails as they landed. Once or twice there were even skaters on the ice skating serenely around the island that normally gave the ducks refuge from human intruders. These short periods of snow and ice and frozen lead pipes which burst are all that early memory holds of winter. Toys and books must have pushed the cold and wet into the background. Even pea soup fogs belong to later childhood.
It seems not long till we found there were other open spaces besides Finsbury Park. Another half mile towards London was Clissold Park. Its sole claim to fame was having a smaller boating pond with canoes which children could take out on those rare occasions when enough pocket money had been saved. 
The opposite direction was more rewarding. Ally Pally stands on its hill looking out over London through the haze of coal-burning suburbia. Surrounded by its few acres of green it still had its four chateauesque corners intact before Satan unleashed the telly against humanity.  
We could wander its empty halls and eat our sandwiches beside the pond while the sun shone. Not far from there where the woods, Queens Wood, and Highgate Woods, shady but not thicketed, a small wanderer’s delight. Apart from the occasional dog taking itself for a walk, the animals were only squirrels. The fox had not discovered the joys of urban life and the smaller rodents were not obvious. 
The acquisition of roller skates which extended the range of wandering on foot from three or four miles distance, to twice that range. I was able to go off for the day with one or two other roller skating fanatics and a supply of sandwiches and lemonade and could get to such fascinating places as the River Lea and Epping Forrest. Watching the lock gates working as barges were pulled through by enormous horses on the towpath filled idle summer hours in those times when the days and the weeks were longer.  
What we called the River Lea was the canal, of course, the remains of the river we called the Old Lea, but except in times of flood, it was a rather trifling stream. The canal carried the fuel for the power station at Enfield and also a lot of timber for the various timber yards along its banks. This was all brought from the then very active docks in London and the canal ran north as far as Hertford in territory I could not explore until I got a bike.  
The numerous miles covered on our roller skates on the abrasive stone paving wore their steel wheels smaller and smaller till at last the ball bearings escaped and hard saved pennies had to be spent in the Lays Street market where anything could be bought including skate wheels. 
I already knew Epping Forest from visits with my father, sometimes with the rest of the family. He knew the area well and no doubt also wandered there as a boy having lived at Tottenham. It sometimes seems that, despite memories, one was less observant as a small child. Despite natural curiosity, there is a much smaller base of knowledge with which to compare things. Trees are mostly just trees and only very noticeable birds stand out from the mass, there were squawking Jays flashing away in the trees and newts and tadpoles in the ponds. There were snakes and deer there too but I never saw any deer and only once an adder. The squirrels seemed to have had it to themselves, even the rabbits that overran the countryside kept to the edge of the woodland. For wandering boys, the wandering was a joy in itself. 
Later wandering became more organised. This started with Scout camps. First came, the Cubs one Whitsun, no further afield than Hatfield Park, then others including Gilwell, the Scout Mecca of which the most memorable item was the rather primitive swimming pool where we were allowed to swim naked, a joy rarely available to a town dweller.  
We travelled to these camps in the back of a lorry and scarcely noticed the discomfort as it was different and cheap. Everything had to be cheap. The sun did not always shine and when we went to Downe in Kent our lorry got us there after dark in a pelting rainstorm in which we set up our tents on a site we could not see. After that, I think I slept soundly, perhaps the ground was softer for the rain. That camp our swimming was in the River Test, it was icy, small boys must be quite mad.  
Swimming seems to have been the main attraction of these camps. At Hayling Island, then little built up, we swam in a sandy inlet where the temperature of the English Channel was moderated by the warm sand as the tide came in.

to be continued tomorrow part 16

Extracted from our database today 15th February

1721 - Birth: George LAWS-32597, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland                       England

1735 - Christen: Mary LAWS-6824, Stepney Middlesex England

1795 - Birth: John LAWS-19782, 
1807 - Christen: Mary Ann LAWS-24482, Stepney Middlesex Englan d
1818 - Birth: Mary Elizabeth MADISON-29705, Granville County, 
           North Carolina United States
1846 - Christen: Gilbert LAWSE-7919, Portsmouth Hampshire England

1846 - Christen: William LAWS-2927, (Cathedral Timekeeper)
            Chatteris Cambridgeshire England

1850 - Residence: Henry LAWS-22733, House lease held on Weston House                          Estate, Chertsey Surrey England
1857 - Birth: Edward Thomas Burder HUTCHINSON-11232, 
           Queanbeyan, New South Wales Australia
1858 - Death: Samuel LAWS-27451, (Bricklayer) Bramford Suffolk England
1859 - Death: John LAWES-49773, Falmouth Cornwall England
1863 - Baptism: Mary Jane (Servant / Spinster) LAWS-5080, Hawkinge Kent                   England
1863 - Baptism: Henrietta Matilda (Spinster) LAWS-4151, East Stoke Dorset                   England

1874 - Baptism: Anna Maria LAWS-3537, (Scholar) Litcham Norfolk England

1880 - Birth: William Horace LAWES-46098, (Physicist - Electrical Mechanical               Relays & Instruments)  London Middlesex England
1885 - Death: Sarah Elizabeth LAWS-32933, Johnson City, Washington County               Tennessee United States
1886 - Birth: Violet LAWS-17234, (Dressmaker)  Enniskillen Ireland
1888 - Marriage: Marcus Melvin RAY-16807 and Pantha Della LAWS-16806,                   Burnsville, Yancey, North Carolina, United States
1895 - Death: Jane GENTLE-4671, (Laundress) Gosport Hampshire England
1896 - Marriage: Edward Thomas Burder HUTCHINSON-11232 and 
           Florence Annie LAWS-11226, (Infant aged abt 8 mths)  Brisbane                             Queensland Australia
1896 - Birth: Ellen Blanche LAWS-17125, (Spinster)  Newcastle upon Tyne                       Northumberland England
1904 - Birth: Herbert LAWS-46501, (Master Butcher & Shop keeper)
1904 - Birth: Leslie Jack LAWS-34185, (Carpenter & Joiner) Ipswich Suffolk                   England

1904 - Birth: Nellie Constance GIBLETT-28748, Lincoln, Lincolnshire England

1905 - Birth: Annie DUCKWORTH-42028, (Weaver)
1909 - Birth: Leonard Arthur LAWES-37228, (Capstan Lathe - Hand)
           Brentford Middlesex England
1911 - Birth: Ivy Edna Margaret LAWS-35854, 
1912 - Birth: Matthew LAWS-43232, (Coal Miner)
1913 - Birth: Douglas Clifford LAWS-30955, Stow Suffolk England
1915 - Death: Walter John LAWES-21749, (ARMY Private L/11554)
1915 - Death: Georgiana LAWES-382, (Spinster) Oak House, Baughurst                            Hampshire England
1916 - Birth: George E G LAWS-46423, (Engraver Process (Colour Etcher)
1918 - Birth: Christina LAWS-46009, (Domestic Servant)
1918 - Death: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-24386, (Widow)  New York City, New York               United States
1919 - Birth: Faye Effie LAWS-41136, Malad, Oneida, Idaho United States
1940 - Death: Edward Knox RUTLEDGE-34573, Dubbo New South Wales                       Australi)a
1942 - Military: Ernest LAWS-48164, (Army Sgt)  Singapore
1951 - Death: Richard Arthur LAWS-7815, (Clerk for Merchant)  Sydney
           New South Wales Australia
1959 - Death: Gerald LAWS-2945, (Farmer & Canadia Army Private 106358)                   Lloydminster Saskatcheun CANADA
1960 - Death: Jane Dixon LAWS-25353, (Drapers Assistant)  Darlington Durham              England
1972 - Cremation: Charles Walter LAWS-15044, (Tool Maker)
           Watford Hertfordshire England
1976 - Death: Arthur LAWES-291, London, Ontario Canada
1980 - Death: Ronald LAWES-15721, (Surveyor) Witney Oxfordshire England
1981 - Death: Christopher J LAWS-19340, Kenton County Kentucky 
           United States
1986 - Death: Frederick Charles LAWS-11248, (Carpenter & Australian Army)               Southport Queensland Australia
1995 - Death: Oliver Graham LAWS-32105, San Joaquin California United States
1996 - Death: George Alfred Thomas LAWS-40088,
2011 - Burial: Dula Marie WILLIAMSON-18176,


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