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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)
SCHOOL 2
PART 19
Within the schools, competition and achievement were what mattered and although the arts and manual skills were not ignored any more than games, there was never a thought that these had in any way the importance of the academic subjects.
The Grammar school was based on a large house, or small mansion set in substantial grounds converted to playing fields. A purpose built extension doubled the number of rooms and included proper lab facilities. This also provided a large assembly hall with a good stage as well as a separate gymnasium and woodwork and domestic science rooms.
The ‘old building’ as it was known would have been a wonderful home in its day, it dated from the early nineteenth century, and sat in a high position looking out over the lower land of the Lea Valley, a sea of houses by the thirties but a green and pleasant land in earlier days.
It was basically a two storey house but with a complete basement half sunk in the ground below it, and an attic storey half in the roof above.
The grand front door led into a circular foyer before giving access to the central hallway where the circular theme continued with a grand staircase to the first floor. This did not go on up to the servants quarters above, which were served by a small spiral stone stairway which went from the basement to attics. There were perhaps ten rooms large enough to serve as main classrooms with a number of others used as a library, staff rooms, studies etc.
The basement still contained a kitchen and its main area was used as a dining room for the twenty or thirty pupils who lived some miles away and were allowed the privilege of school dinners.
This part of the basement also served as a music room if the main hall or stage were unavailable. A separate building near the main gate which had probably served as a stable block had been made into two physics labs with an art room above. There were no sign of the stables or coach house; their site may have been covered by the ample bike sheds, the school bus not having been invented. Alongside the bike sheds was a dovecot up on staddle stones, no longer the home of doves, it was probably used as a store by the two groundsmen who kept the playing field as immaculate as the gardens, which no doubt kept by a team of gardeners before them.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 21st December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1812 - Baptism: Alfred LAWS-21052, Lavenham Suffolk England
1817 - Baptism: William LAWS-19500, Costessey Norfolk England
1845 - Birth: James LAWS-5661, (Labourer) Whitechapel Middlesex England
1918 - Birth: Mary E H LAWS-47824, (Shorthand Typist)
MARRIAGES
1845 - Birth: James LAWS-5661, (Labourer) Whitechapel Middlesex England
1864 - Birth: William Humphrey LAWES-19790,
1878 - Birth: Charles LAWS-48675, (Labourer Public Work Contractors & Widower)
1886 - Birth: Clyde Charlie LAWS-16668, (Captain US Navy 17935) Kansas United States
1889 - Birth: Sidney James LAWES-21190, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1909 - Birth: Deliah LAWS-36498,
1918 - Birth: Elsie A LAWES-49052,
MARRIAGES
1815 - Marriage: William LOVELL-3633 and Betty LAWS-3631, Witchampton Dorset England
1828 - Marriage: Robert LAWES-1219 (Bricklayer/Builder) and Isabella ARCHER-1220, (Seamstress) Hellington Norfolk England
1835 - Marriage: Benjamin WEBLEY-12696 and Jane LAWES-12695, Bristol Gloucestershire England
1851 - Marriage: James MASLIN-35070 and Jane LAWS-35069, Newgate LONDON England
1873 - Marriage: George William LAWS-3747 (Railway Locomotive Foreman) and Emma CLIFFORD- 11591, South Shields Durham England
1880 - Marriage: Thomas BLACKBURN-46004 (Market Gardener) and Hannah L LAWS-21500, Wandsworth Surrey England
1921 - Marriage: George Herbert Clifford LAWS-36827 (Innkeeper) and Alice CUSHING-37619, Queensbury West Yorkshire England
1921 - Marriage: Charles Reed LAWS-5197 (Teacher) and Evelyn Katie LEE-5198, England
1937 - Marriage: Anthony HOOPER-11013 and Betty LAWES-11012,
1880 - Death: Nathaniel Ford LAWS-36484,
1914 - Death: William Giles LAWS-15493, (ARMY Private 9806) Pas de Calais FRANCE
1946 - Death: Barney LAWES-23070, Vancouver British Columbia Canada
1952 - Death: Laura LAWS-46587, Arlington Virginia United States
1952 - Death: Albert R LAWS-19749, Bell County, Kentucky, United States
1964 - Death: Clarice May LAWS-40198, Kirklington West Yorkshire England
1990 - Death: David LAWS-20249, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1992 - Burial: Margaret A LAWS-16780, (A1/C US Air Force) Leavenworth National Cemetery Kansas
United States Plot 46, RW 26 GR
1998 - Death: William Bryan LAWS-23006, Santa Anna, Coleman County, Texas United States
2002 - Death: Velma LAWS-10970, Presbyterian Hospital, Gastonia North Carolina United States
1946 - Residence: Walter WEBBER- JENNINGS -14165, (Chemists Assistant) Leeds West Yorkshire England
(My late father-in-law)
(My late father-in-law)
OTHER BIRTHS
1848 - Birth: Margaret E CHRISMAN-13913,
1912 - Birth: Harold JENNER-24577, Kerang Victoria Australia
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1838 - Death: Mary LOCKE-36487,
1932 - Death: Ernest Charles KESTING-32305, (Secondary School Master) Gosforth Northumberland England
1932 - Death: Ernest Charles KESTING-32305, (Secondary School Master) Gosforth Northumberland England
1946 - Death: Fred JENNINGS-7154, Nurseryman) Wortley West Yorkshire England
(My late father-in-law's stepfather, his mothers brother)
1967 - Burial: Florence Louisa POWELL-12402, Aldershot Hampshire England
(My late father-in-law's stepfather, his mothers brother)
1967 - Burial: Florence Louisa POWELL-12402, Aldershot Hampshire England
2003 - Death: George Edward CABLE-30149,
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PLEASE NOTE GDPR (2018) PRIVACY TERMS
We have excluded records of living people to protect their
Privacy.
We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
Privacy.
We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
If you are interested in anyone listed here, email us with the name, dates and reference number, and we will happily do a lookup.
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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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