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Dear Ancestor
Your tombstone stands amongst the rest, neglected and alone,
The names and dates are chiseled out on polished, marble stone.
It reaches out to all who care, it is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist, you died and I was born.
Yet each of us, are cells of you, in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse not entirely our own.
Dear Ancestor
The place you filled one hundred years ago,
Spreads out amongst the ones you left, who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew.
That someday,
I would find this spot and come to visit you.
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A child of the 1920's a from the 1990's
by
My late father, John Robert Laws 1921-2008
Part 28.
Wanderers
Wanderers
Before the building boom, Southgate was largely an area of large mansions set in their own parks among farmland with a village of cottages and small shops where the new Underground station was now inserted.
Southgate Underground Station
It has been well documented by local historians and was in the final stages of suburbanisation when we moved there. I had scarcely any knowledge of the area before moving there, but on at least one occasion had investigated the blackberries growing in the hedges of Osidge Lane at the bottom of which Pymmes brook was still a little stream edged with overgrown hawthorn. Little did I know that I one day would be the head accountant at a large factory there and walk Osidge Lane daily to and from my place of work.
There was a little farm in a small gentle valley opposite our new house, but within months the farm had become a large housing estate and, passing through the stages of a sea of mud, it eventually became quite a pleasant suburban area.
A house then was built about one every three weeks, with very little mechanical assistance, those houses were sold for about five or six hundred pounds, not cheap. A new house could be bought for a little as three hundred and seventy-five pounds all around London.
Most houses were being built without garages but ours was one of a small development of half a dozen with a garage built in. Builders had not yet really decided that a garage was an integral part of a house, so there was no upper storey over it.
Our enterprising builder had even put a radiator in the garage and this, together with a radiator in the hall and a towel rail in the bathroom made up his attempt at central heating. It was too bad that his knowledge of gravity circulation was weak and the garage was a bit lower than the rest of the house so that its radiator was below the level of the ‘Ideal’ boiler in the kitchen and remained forever stone cold.
The kitchen in the new house was a real update on what had gone before. There was still a built-in dresser for the china with upper grooved shelves to stand up the dinner plates but the top was enclosed by doors, albeit painted a darkish brown. The larder alongside it was deep, giving a lot of space though difficult to access.
For the first time there was a refrigerator, a monstrous thing on legs with a big round cooling coil on top, to collect the dust where you could see it. It was however finished in white enamel and built like a tank. The black iron gas cooker was left behind and the new one was finished in mottled green vitreous enamel, all very solid.
We still had a deep white stoneware sink with a wooden draining board. The kitchen was, of course, a lot smaller than before and the old deal table used up a lot of the space so that there was little room to eat there.
A breakfast room lay alongside to eat in and this arrangement was a bit of a curate’s egg, handy when you needed an extra room but not so handy at breakfast time.
We were about half a mile from the new underground railway station, our move to the new house had been held back until it was completed. A bus route with single-decker buses ran down the road as far as the Chase Side Tavern. The bus stopped within a few yards of us on its way back and it cost a penny for the ride up the easy slope half a mile to the station. I had to be very late and actually see the bus coming before money could be wasted in this profligate way.
The shops in Southgate were at that time in course of changing over from village to suburbia, a change which had been made in nearby Palmers Green a generation earlier probably when the railway arrived. The new tube station had a few new shops built around it but the old ones survived just a little longer, a tiny sweetshop run by a tiny old lady on the corner of Chase Side opposite the ‘Bell’ Public House, and a barbers beside the Bell, where boys got their hair cut for three pence. Next to that going north along Chase Side, Lees Stores survived a long time although the first moves towards supermarkets showed themselves in shops where you had to go from one counter to another to get your various goods instead of shop assistant fetching it all from far of places and piling it on the counter in front of you, before asking whether you would like it delivered.
Next to Lee’s was the paper shop and then an ancient toy shop which didn’t last long. The bike, and perhaps the motorbike, repair shop was a hundred yards further on, more a single storey brick shed with a shopfront than anything, and yet it survived for some years, standing well proud of the new parade of shops built beside it which were well st back from the road with a very wide pavement.
Opposite was Collins the butchers, a purveyor of choice meat, complete with a slaughterhouse in the rear. Here Sam and his dad presided with straw hats and blue and white aprons and would chop away on their big wooden block to produce the chump chop you wanted out of half a sheep. They too would deliver if you liked it in a little brown van, well known in the Southgate streets. No doubt you paid for the service in the prices but you still could buy a nice pork chop for four pence.
There were two garages locally, petrol cost the equivalent of six or seven new pence a gallon and you could buy a brand new Austin Seven for one hundred and five pounds if you were lucky enough to scrape that much together.
Austin 7
My dad got a Chrysler saloon in place of the old bull-nosed Morris but didn’t have it long as he was neither the first or the last, to drive straight on at one of the right-angled Essex lanes. I didn’t ride in it much anyway, as he had given me a new bike which I liked much better. After the demise of the Chrysler came, a much more sedate Hillman which I feel nobody loved very much.
To be continued tomorrow
There's a family who misses you dearly,
In a home where you used to be;
There's a family who wanted to keep you,
But God willed it not to be.
You left many happy memories,
And a sorrow too great to be told;
But to us who loved and lost you,
Your memory will never grow old.
EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 20th SEPTEMBER
(Please note all spelling is British English)
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1691 - Christen: Antonius LAWS-26995, Ponteland Northumberland England
1691 - Baptism: Matthew LAWS-10639, Ponteland Northumberland England
1691 - Baptism: Anthony LAWS-10638, Ponteland Northumberland England
1789 - Birth: Susanna LAWS-7042, St.Mary in the Marsh Norfolk England
1807 - Baptism: John LAWS-32240, (Butcher Mariner) Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1809 - Birth: James Maddison LAWS-12989, Perryville, Boyle County, Kentucky United States
1822 - Baptism: John William LAWS-27445, Alkham Kent England
1828 - Christen: William LAWS-16591, Littleport Cambridgeshire England
1864 - Birth: Luke LAWS-47550, (Retired)
1865 - Birth: William LAWES-48198, (Farmer)
1868 - Birth: William Edmund LAWES-24483, (Royal Navy 145384) East Stoke Dorset England
1868 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-3562, (Coal Miner) Sleekburn Bedlington Northumberland England
1870 - Birth: Alfred Ernest George LAWS-15311, (Elementary School Master) Fincham Norfolk England
1872 - Birth: Ruby Claudell LAWS-11236, Anderson, Grimes Texas United States
1887 - Birth: Robert Douglas LAWS-15841, (Chemist & Druggist) Croydon Surrey England
1888 - Birth: Robert LAWS-44723, (Docker)
1890 - Birth: William LAWS-44429, (Labourer OXO Company)
1898 - Birth: Elsie May LAWS-23191, Skipsea East Yorkshire England
1900 - Birth: John Alfred LAWES-48268, (Assistant Foreman Storekeeper Sauce & Pickle Company)
1901 - Birth: Henry LAWS-48020, (Slot Machine Fitter)
1907 - Birth: Ivy Irene LAWS-35459,
1914 - Birth: Leonard Robert Owen LAWES-32046,(Electrician) Portsmouth Hampshire England
1916 - Birth: Ronald LAWES-35753,
1918 - Birth: Warren Porter LAWS-36479, Fairfield Cornwall England
MARRIAGES & Divorce
1824 - Marriage: John COX-23865 (Cordwainer) and Sarah LAWS-23864, Canford Magna Dorset England
1888 - Marriage: Joseph William LAWS-13893 and Amanda Emeline POOR-13894,
1905 - Marriage: James Peek PHILPOTT-26522 (Bank Manager) and Winifred Amelia LAWS-15530, (Black & White Artist) Bungay Suffolk England
1843 - Marriage: John LAWS-32346 (Ag Lab) and Elizabeth SKEELS-32350, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1848 - Marriage: Edwin Henry LAWES-388 (Wheelwright) and Mary Ann RUSH-394, Bishopstone Wiltshire England
1888 - Marriage: Joseph William LAWS-13893 and Amanda Emeline POOR-13894,
1902 - Marriage: Arthur William LAWS-7087 and Edith Emmaline Mary ???-2906,
DEATHSand Burials
1865 - Burial: Rebecca LAWS-7902, (Widow) Southwold Suffolk England
1898 - Divorce filed: Francis John LAWS-39070 (Plate Polisher) and Charlotte WOODS-42765,
MISCELLANEOUS
1901 - Death: Doye Adell LAWS-33291, Carroll County Tennessee United States
1901 - Death: Elizabeth Lovewell LAWS-3402, (Independent means) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1908 - Death: Ida E LAWS-40617, Boston Massachusetts United States
1911 - Death: Helen LAWS-24863, (Infant) Morgan, Mercer County Missouri United States
1917 - Death: Thomas LAWS-22339, (ARMY Private 21754)
1917 - Death: Stanley Robert LAWS-17839 (ARMY Private 1524) , killed in Action
1917 - Death: Phillip Umfreville LAWS-3011, (ARMY Captain 27194) Ypres BELGIUM
1926 - Death: Eliza LAWS-31698, Stanfield Norfolk England
1954 - Death: Thomas LAWS-13959,
1960 - Death: John William LAWS-25476,
1960 - Death: Fulton LAWS-16702, (Sgt US Army)
1966 - Burial: Milton R LAWS-16516, Baltimore Maryland United States
1939 - Residence: William A LAWES-49140, (Taxi Driver) Mitcham Surrey England
1939 - Residence: Gillian LAWES-47430, Exmouth Devonshire England
1973 - Death: Pamela Helen LAWES-43405, Leigh on Sea Essex England
2000 - Death: Brendan John LAWS-30075, Renmark South Africa
2005 - Death: Darrius McDaniel LAWS-10703, (Retired Trucker) Lawndale North Carolina United States
2013 - Death: Harold Douglas LAWS-39435, Millers Creek North Carolina United States
OTHER BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1857 - Baptism: Mary Ann CLEGG-7102, Manchester Lancashire England
1871 - Birth: Mary E MARCOM-43212, (Widow) Newton St Ceres Denbigh England
1880 - Birth: Florence Elizabeth STEVENS-43485, Iron Acton Gloucestershire England
1897 - Birth: Rosetta Gertrude CLARK-30429,
1918 - Birth: Alexander Trotter WILLIAMSON-42475, South Shields Durham England
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1793 - Death: Fletcher CHRISTIAN-32245, (Of HMS Bounty) Pitcairn Island
1931 - Death: Isabella DINNIN-6664, Rockhampton Queensland Australia
1944 - Death: Edward Alfred MOY-THOMAS-38263, (Staff-Captain HQ 1st Air Landing Brigade 14859) Arnhem Bridge Holland (Operation Market Garden) his widow married a LAWS in 1946
1966 - Death: Samuel G ALBERT-41464,
1967 - Burial: Sybil Evelyn COOPER-10120, Bognor Regis Sussex England
1978 - Death: Archibald James MARCOM-38309, (Headmaster High Bickerton C of E School) Exmouth Devonshire England
1978 - Death: Archibald James MARCOM-38309, (Headmaster High Bickerton C of E School) Exmouth Devonshire 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.
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