Laws Family Register

Welcome to the Laws Family Register.   ================================================================ A Child of  the Twenties A suburban childhood of the Twenties  seen from the Ninteen Nineties by John Robert Laws 1921-2008 Part 8. PEOPLE In the High Street there were those who offered oddments from doorways, matches and lemons spring to mind. Along the gutters the sandwich board men, walked, enclosed in their advertising matter or calls to repentance, sometimes singly sometimes in threes or fours in a straggling crocodile. Occasionally there was an organ grinder on the corner of a side street, winding his handle and his mechanical music would add to the general street noise. There is an impression of noisiness in the High Street. Apart from the street traders there were trams clattering on their steel rails, horses were iron shod and so were the wheels of most of the carts. Lorri...

Welcome to the Laws Family Register.   ================================================================ A Child of  the Twenties A suburban childhood of the Twenties  seen from the Ninteen Nineties by John Robert Laws 1921-2008 Part 7 PEOPLE Until school age there was not a lot of contact with adults outside the family. One saw the neighbour in their gardens from time to time but it was not till a little later that a family came next door with whom we became friendly. The Kemble’s had five offspring, five daughters for starters the youngest in her late teens, and a son harry a bit older than myself with whom I became quite friendly. For some years we were regular cycling companions. The tradesmen were the people who are impressed on my memory. Delivery was order of the day despite shopping on an almost daily basis. The milkman had an open backed float with churns in it and w...

(before we start I'd like to apologise for errors yesterday) Member of the Guild of One-Name Studies Welcome to the Laws Family Register.   ================================================================ A Child of  the Twenties A suburban childhood of the Twenties  seen from the Ninteen Nineties by John Robert Laws 1921-2008 Part 6. PEOPLE There seemed to be a wider range of people then than there are now. There was no question or concept of equality. To me Mum was all important but to everyone Dad was 'The Boss'  and this nickname was used all the time between mother and her helper Lottie the maid. Lottie was a sort of auntie to me, having been part of the family longer than I had. This help was much needed by my mother not only on account of the houswork but because catastrophe had struck my parents when my sister Mary had suffered brain damage as a complication of meningi...