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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)
Wanderings and more
PART 28
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 known 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.
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 became quite a pleasant suburban area.
A house got put up 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 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 off 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 motorbike, repair shop was a hundred yards further on, more a single storey brick shed with a shop front than anything, but it survived some years standing well proud of the new parade of shops built beside it which was set well 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 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 nor 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
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 28th December
Family Events
1810 - Birth: John Innocent Dyball LAWS-4928, (Coach Smith) Costessey Norfolk England
1814 - Birth: John Bennett LAWES-219, Harpenden Hertfordshire England
1832 - Baptism: James William Colville LAWS-10723, (Chemist) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1832 - Baptism: James William Colville LAWS-10723, (Chemist) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1861 - Birth: B LAWS-17136,
1862 - Birth: Robert LAWES-47613, (Railway Locomotive Engineer)
1862 - Birth: John LAWS-14936, (Railway Signalman) East Stoke Dorset England
1878 - Birth: Robert Reginald LAWES-2501, Newport Isle of Wight England
1881 - Birth: Albert Robert LAWS-27307, (Builders Labourer/Bricklayer) Bexhill on Sea Sussex England
1883 - Birth: George Edward LAWS-8182, (Railway Clerk) Whitby North Yorkshire England
1889 - Birth: John Henry LAWS-38958, (Railway Blacksmith)
1892 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-43561, (Blacksmith Striker) Stockton-On-Tees Durham England
1893 - Birth: Evelyn Mary LAWS-17751, Ruswarp North Yorkshire England
1894 - Birth: George LAWES-47445, (Road Sweeper)
1897 - Birth: Isabella LAWS-49344,
1901 - Birth: Henry P LAWS-33216, (Petrol Pool) Leasingthorne, Durham, England
1905 - Birth: Walter Henry LAWES-49107, (General Labourer Paint Works)
1911 - Birth: Milbert LAWS-16515, (PFC US Army)
1917 - Birth: John Stanley Robert LAWS-23848, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland
1918 - Birth: Frederick R Thomas Bennett LAWS-43709, (Commercial Artist)
MARRIAGES
1826 - Marriage: James Eastmure LAWS-3399 (Master Mariner & Ship Owner) and Elizabeth AGNEW- 11895, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1830 - Marriage: Edward LAWS-26090 (Seaman) and Janet MCCULLOCH-26091, Dundee Angus Scotland
1859 - Marriage: Samuel LAWS-3428 (Ag Lab / Farmer / Innkeeper) and Louisa SEXTON-3429,
Norwich Norfolk England
Norwich Norfolk England
1840 - Marriage: Henry MEEN-24978 (Labourer) and Pleasant LAWES-24977, Weston Suffolk England
1842 - Marriage: John Bennett LAWES-219 and Caroline FOUNTAINE-220, Harpenden Hertfordshire England
1882 - Marriage: Joseph Searles LAWS-14356 (Ships Carpenter) and Martha FULLER-6938, (Dressmaker) Stepney Middlesex England
1896 - Marriage: James Robert TURNER-31692 (Labourer) and Anna Maria LAWS-3609, Beeston Norfolk England
1813 - Burial: Mary LAWS-24298, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1866 - Burial: Rosina Emma LAWS-27222, (age 3 mth) Stoke Newington Middlesex England
1883 - Burial: Marion LAWS-27202,
1893 - Burial: William LAWS-8036, (Innkeeper) Lowestoft Suffolk England
1903 - Death: Benjamin Edward LAWS-21081, (a child) Lowestoft Suffolk England
1913 - Death: George LAWS-17020, Houghton Northumberland England
1928 - Death: Charles LAWS-19764, Laurel County Kentucky United States
1950 - Death: Stanley Richard LAWES-2376, Basingstoke Hampshire England
1958 - Death: Cuthbert Beaumont LAWS-34284, (Miner) Langwith Junction Derbyshire England
1960 - Death: Maud Lillian LAWES-38166, (Retired Schoolmistress) Boscombe Hampshire bur resided at
Corfe Mullen Dorset England
1976 - Burial: Malcolm Montrose LAWS-16778, (MOMM1 US Navy) Saint Louis Missouri United States
1978 - Death: Henry LAWS-22444, (Railway Maintenance) Winchester Hampshire England
1987 - Death: Jean Maude LAWS-26743, Dorset England
1993 - Burial: Gaines Augusta LAWS-20504, (Jnr) Old Adamsville Cemetery, Adamsville, Sumpter County
Florida United States
1996 - Death: Joseph Samuel LAWS-12927, (Australian Army) Greenethorpe New South Wales Australia
1997 - Death: Phillip B LAWS-35501, Lancaster, Palmdale California United States
2000 - Death: Charles LAWS-19730,
2006 - Death: Daphne Irene LAWS-38136, New South Wales Australia
1882 - Residence: Joseph Searles LAWS-14356, (Ships Carpenter) Stepney Middlesex England
1882 - Residence: Martha FULLER-6938, (Dressmaker) Stepney Middlesex England
1914 - Residence & Enlistment: Gerald LAWS-3005, (Farmer & Canadia Army Private 106358) Lloydminster Saskachuen Canada
1915 - Enlistment: Victor George LAWS-20772, (Labourer) Hammersmith Middlesex England
1918 - Occupation: Gerald LAWS-3005, (Farmer & Canadia Army Private 106358)
1920 - Immigration: Fred LAWS-25729, (Builder) Lyttelton New Zealand
1944 - Residence: Alfred G COLE-47201, Southampton Hampshire England
1950 - Residence: Ronald George FARROW-22979, (Engineer) Walthamstow Essex England
1950 - Residence: Evelyn Dorethea LAWS-22978, (Spinster) Folkestone Kent England
1954 - Residence: Beryl M LAWS-43190, Burton upon Trent Staffordshire England
Departure: from Tilbury Essex England
1954 - Residence: Martha Ellen BLACK-43189, (SRN) Burton upon Trent Staffordshire England
Departure: from Tilbury Essex England
1954 - Residence: Basil Derwin LAWS-25914, (Missionary) Burton upon Trent Staffordshire England
Departure: from Tilbury Essex England
OTHER BIRTHS
1734 - Baptism: Eliza JENNINGS-32693, Wakefield West Yorkshire England
1845 - Birth: Flora Jane ASCAH-33081,
1888 - Birth: Samuel Hart SCRUGGS-22507, Carroll County Massachusetts United States
1902 - Birth: Daisy Emma LEVICK-42561,
1888 - Birth: Samuel Hart SCRUGGS-22507, Carroll County Massachusetts United States
1902 - Birth: Daisy Emma LEVICK-42561,
1907 - Birth: Vivian May PACK-36205,
1912 - Birth: Ernest Marcus LAWRENCE-11531, England
1913 - Birth: Agnes O HOWES-40219,
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1808 - Death: Anne LUTTRELL-4630, (Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn) Trieste ITALY
(Grand-daughter of Si Nicholas Laws Govnor of Jamaica)
1947 - Death: Irma Eleanor TURNER-15010, (Schoolmistress) Seattle, King, Washington United States
1956 - Death: Rosa Lee GARLAND-50253,
2005 - Burial: Sandra REDDING-21363, Cleveland North Carolina United States
(Grand-daughter of Si Nicholas Laws Govnor of Jamaica)
1897 - Death: William Henry S HERCOCK-45469, (Assistant Jeweller) Margate Kent England
but Burial at Romford Essex England
1956 - Death: Rosa Lee GARLAND-50253,
2005 - Burial: Sandra REDDING-21363, Cleveland North Carolina United States
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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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