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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)
IN THE BEGINNING
PART 4
The scullery next to the kitchen saved the yellowish shallow sink and the black iron gas cooker with its brass taps from spoiling the kitchen. It was definitely a workplace. The built-in copper had a fire below it to boil the wash. The mangle was enormous with big wooden rollers to get the water out before and after rinsing. The corrugated washboard had not yet been passed on to the skiffle group. Clothing must have been tough to withstand the battering. It all had to be ironed of course which was done on the kitchen table on the ironing cloth conveniently kept in its end drawer.
Two heavy flat-irons were used one in use while the other was reheated on the gas cooker. No thermostats on these, a drop of spit on the finger applied to the hot iron would tell whether the sizzle was about right.
The one convenience, so to speak, about the scullery was the downstairs loo was entered from it. At that time they were normally out in the garden waiting for the first hard frost to put them out of action. Indeed so were most of those of the houses built in the larger building boom of the early thirties.
There was one other work area, the coal cellar, prohibited to the infant population. This too was better than the thirties houses which had coal bunkers in the garden from which the fuel must be fetched come rain snow or shine. The descent to the cellar through a door in the hall passage was steep to go down, and perhaps steeper to climb up laden with a bucket of coal so some may dispute my feeling that it was better than going out in the rain.
The coal came into the cellar through the coal hole in the top front step which was recessed into the house to give a small porch with the iron cover of the coal hole in the centre. Four of five sandstone steps led up from street level and the coalman would carry his enormous sack up and up-end it over the hole. Needless to say, this spoiled the pristine cleanliness of the whitened step and was not a popular event.
Personally, I liked to see the patient carthorse observing the proceedings while digging into his nosebag and enjoying the enforced rest. Having delivered his orders, the coalman would patrol the streets calling 'Coal' at intervals in the hope of casual customers. Much the same perhaps as the 'butane' delivering gas in today's Spain, though he needs no call, the clatter of his lorry is enough to rouse the customers. As well as the coal store there was plenty of space in the cellar with a sort of second room into which a feeble light filtered by a small window below the 'front room' bay. I remember it as a junk store but maybe it was just things one couldn't throw away.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 7th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1735 - Baptism: Catherine LAWS, Stepney Middlesex England
1751 - Birth: Sara Ann LAWS, Ripley Indiana United States
1823 - Christen: Henry LAWES, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1824 - Birth: Amelia LAWS, Limehouse Middlesex London
1841 - Birth: Ann LAWS, Chatteris Cambridgeshire England
1856 - Baptism: Amelia LAWS, (Day Servant) Bungay Suffolk England
1874 - Birth: Alice Emily LAWS, Balmain NSW Australia
1878 - Birth: Albert E LAWS, (Omnibus Mounter Retired)
1878- Birth: Alfred Ernest LAWS, (Retired Coach Body Builder - RAF Service Number: 101343)
1883 - Birth: Harry J LAWS, (physician and surgeon) Crown Point, Lake Co Indiana United States
1886 - Birth: Joseph Theodore LAWS, (Farmer) Delaware United States
1903 - Birth: Horace LAWS, (PVT US Army)
1904 - Birth: Lena LAWS,
1904 - Birth: Norah Marjorie LAWS, Costessey Norfolk England
1905 - Birth: Herbert LAWS, (Assistant Grocery Stores)
1907 - Birth: Ellen LAWS, Houghton le Spring Durham England
1917 - Birth: Hilman LAWS,
1917 - Birth: Ada LAWS, (Shop Assistant)
1917 - Birth: Frederick George LAWS, Rookwood New South Wales Australia
MARRIAGES
1766 - Marriage: Cuthbert LAWS and Elizabeth PRUDHOE, Ovington or Ovingham Northumberland England
1779 - Marriage: Alexander WALKER and Charlotte LAWS, Mercer Co Kentucky United States
1890 - Marriage: Samuel H LAWS and Gussie FRANZEN, Ogden, Webber Co. Utah United StatesDEATHS and BURIALS
1880 - Death: William LAWS- (Farmer 715 acres) , Black Heddon Northumberland England
1906 - Death: Sarah LAWS, Coolac New South Wales Australia
1933 - Death: Alfred Arthur LAWS (Farmer 500 acres & Grocer)-Somersham Suffolk England
1955 - Burial: Arthur Reginald LAWS, Sydney New South Wales Australia
1982 - Death: Doris May LAWS, Artarmon New South Wales Australia
1989 - Death: John Raymond LAWS, Toppenish, Yakima County Washington United States
2004 - Death: Cynthia Ellen LAWS, Cartersville, Bartow, GA United States
2008 - Burial: Edward Glenn LAWS, Beulah, Surrey North Carolina United States
2016 - Death: Helen Therese LAWS, Castlemaine Victoria Australia
MISCELLANEOUS
1957 - Residence: Richard James KEELING, (Office Boy) Bexley Kent England
OTHER BIRTHS
1844 - Birth: Emma Dallas MARK, Howard Co., Massachusetts United States
1855 - Birth: David Charles WARWICK, (Railway Porter) Ferozepore, Bengal INDIA
1869 - Birth: Louisa Rebecca CHAMBERLAIN Berry New South Wales Australia
1899 - Birth: Melissa GAMBREL,
1899 - Birth: Melissa GAMBREL,
1908 - Birth: Frederick J SOUTHERN, (Rent Collector)
1914 - Birth: Leona WILSON,
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS,
1858 - Death: John MACKLIN, Coombe Bissett Wiltshire England
1968 - Death: Richard Thomas LAWES- Norwich Norfolk England
1975 - Death: Renee' Flora Gwendoline CARTER (Tobacconists Assistant) , Folkestone Kent England
1992 - Death: Vincent Patrick FLYNN-
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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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