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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)
INNOVATION 1
PART 13
At some point my father changed his Morris for a Chrysler which went much faster, too fast in fact to get-round the Anglo-Saxon corners of East Anglia, where he wrote it off, and landed himself in hospital for a day or two, seat belts were a much later innovation, after that he got a sedate Hillman which lasted the rest of his days.
Houses had no garages, and the car was housed about half a mile away from where a garage proprietor had a few lockup garages beside his scruffy workshop. The Morris was only used at weekends and holidays and although it was a lovely toy for my dad I thought it a bit of a bore and escaped from it as soon as I was old enough to ride a bike on the road.
Perhaps the most innovative thing about our car was, that my mother learnt to drive it, scarcely the done thing at that time. But by the time I was ten she had one of her own, a little open-topped Singer which was far more to my taste and could be pushed up to 60mph, I remember her saying, “Don’t tell your father!”
The road system was getting some improvement in the twenties and a few new roads space was left for a second carriageway, often it got left for another thirty years.
As well as the main shopping area in Green Lanes there were a few little shops around the railway station. The sweet shop was to me the most important and in those impecunious days, many sweet shops kept a halfpenny and farthing box with a selection of sweets at those prices for kids with pocket money. It is a sign of changing times that as I type, this computer throws out the word Farthing, as not being in the dictionary.
Besides cars, the other result of the internal combustion engine was the increasing number of aircraft in the sky. With development forced ahead of WWI, they had now become a practicable though an expensive form of transport. Small air shows with two or three small aeroplanes would tour the summer holiday resorts seeking out a suitable field to set up their circus.
They would offer a quick circuit of the town at five shillings a go and gave a little show of aerobatics. With a small charge for admission to the field they struggled on for a few years before going broke, or in a very few cases managed to get an airline or charter business going.
As well as these little efforts, the RAF put up an annual show at Hendon which was very impressive at the time though very small beer by today’s standards.
In my late school days, I went there on my bike and found a hillside field overlooking the aerodrome where one could see it all for free. The highlight of the show was a low wing monoplane, probably a prototype Hurricane which came through a shallow dive at over three hundred miles an hour. There were still ten years to wait for the first jet engines.
In my late school days, I went there on my bike and found a hillside field overlooking the aerodrome where one could see it all for free. The highlight of the show was a low wing monoplane, probably a prototype Hurricane which came through a shallow dive at over three hundred miles an hour. There were still ten years to wait for the first jet engines.
Another lusty industry of my early years was the cinema. The silent screen with its overworked pianist trying to provide theme music was just beginning to give way to the ‘talkies’. Charlie Chaplin carried on without a word eating his boots in ‘The Goldrush’ but the soundtrack was with us and although it all continued to be black and white the musical was on its way and the cinema was moving into its few decades of boom years.
One of the more treasured toys, of my under ten years, was a movie projector and its few cans of film. It had no motor and had to be cranked by hand, like the early movie cameras, but it was well made and worked well. The was no eight millimetre then and it used the full-size 35mm so the films were short and ran perhaps five or ten minutes. I knew them all off by heart before long but this did not detract from the fascination of something that actually worked.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 16th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1752 - Birth: Mary LAWS-13046, Necton Norfolk England
1854 - Birth: Arthur Herbert LAWS-4426, (Postal worker) City of London, England
1863 - Birth: Vincent Archibald LAWES-13243 (Designer at Brassworks ) Great Boughton Cheshire England
1870 - Birth: John LAWS-43917, (Builders Labourer)
1875 - Birth: Wilson LAWES-177, (Contractor) Frilford Berkshire England
1895 - Birth: James William Harold LAWS-24412, LAWS-24412, (Shipwright Carpenter) Ipswich Suffolk England
1896 - Birth: Reginald J T LAWES-29853, (Incapacitated) Bexley Kent England
1897 - Birth: Albert E LAWES-45154, (Farm Foreman)
1899 - Birth: Sydney Benjamin LAWES-24472, (RN J49192) Hastings Sussex England
1903 - Birth: Alfred LAWS-24278, (Trawler Fisherman) North Shields Northumberland England
1905 - Birth: Cecil Maurice (Labourer United Dairies) LAWES-34346, Silton Dorset England
1911 - Birth: Joe Verlin LAWS-25550,
1878 - Birth: Herbert J LAWS-42244,
1882 - Birth: Matthew LAWS-43924, (Painter & Building & Decorator)
1884 - Birth: Percy LAWS-8470, (Motor Car Mechanic) Kings Lynn Norfolk England
1912 - Birth: Jack LAWS-44340, (Railway Goods Porter)
1919 - Birth: Mabel Cynthia LAWS-44194,
1920 - Birth: Marjorie LAWS-43700, (Bottle Filler in Brewery)
MARRIAGES
1864 - Marriage: James LAWS-23505 and Isabella RUST-23508, Kintore Aberdeen Scotland
1876 - Marriage: George Miller LAWS-5892(Dock Labourer) and Rebecca THURSTON-5893,
Hingham Norfolk England
Hingham Norfolk England
1936 - Marriage: George Alexander LAWS-14651 and Isabella Gertrude FULLER-14652, Canterbury New South Wales Australia
1939 - Marriage: Clyde Charlie LAWS-16668 (Captain US Navy 17935) and Elizabeth Kready
DIEHL-43248, Martinsburg West Virginia United States
DIEHL-43248, Martinsburg West Virginia United States
1609 - Death: Francis Laws-34647,
1789 - Burial: Thomas LAWES-16814, Harpenden Hertfordshire England
1907 - Death: George LAWS-33028, Stepney Middlesex England
MISCELLANEOUS
1911 - Occupation: Edwin Francis John LAWS-11058, (Railwayman)
1907 - Death: George LAWS-33028, Stepney Middlesex England
1922 - Death: Louise LAWES-10084, (Widow) Birmingham Warwickshire England
1923 - Death: Violet Mary LAWS-20783, Kensington Middlesex England
1937 - Death: Margaret Louise M LAWS-32304, Vancouver British Columbia Canada
1959 - Burial: John L LAWS-16742, (PFC US Army) Arlington Virginia United States
1962 - Death: Alfonso V LAWS-22882, Los Angeles California United States
1962 - Death: Ethel LAWES-22580, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan United States
1984 - Death: Josephine Victoria LAWS-33865, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1984 - Death: David Noel LAWS-36891, Bourne Lincolnshire England
1987 - Death: Edith LAWES-14532, late of Merimbula New South Wales Australia
1988 - Death: Lillian Frances LAWES-24504, Norwich Norfolk England
1989 - Death: Sylvia Violet LAWS-21704, Casino, New South Wales Australia
2005 - Death: Erving LAWS-41154, Toronto Ontario Canada
2012 - Death: Aaron Leo LAWS-40902, West Enfield Maine United States
2017 - Death: Sharon Nicola LAWS-28240, (2008 Olympics Cycling)
1911 - Occupation: Edwin Francis John LAWS-11058, (Railwayman)
OTHER BIRTHS
1746 - Baptism: Barbara THICK-23733, Pentridge Dorset England
1851 - Birth: Louise O HALL-11222, Orange County North Carolina United States
1861 - Birth: Sarah FITZGIBBONS-32278,
1877 - Baptism: Frances JENNINGS-6657, Stanley cum Wrenthorpe West Yorkshire England
(My wife's paternal grandmother)
(My wife's paternal grandmother)
1903 - Birth: Annie Evelyn TUNSTALL-38934,
1919 - Birth: Cynthia Frances BROMHEAD-50121,
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1885 - Burial: Sarah CLEGG-25818, Ardwick Lancashire England
1954 - Death: Rose Louisa GEDGE-28769,
1937 - Death: Margaret Louise Madeline HIRSCHBERG-18115, Vancouver British Columbia Canada
1937 - Death: Margaret Louise Madeline HIRSCHBERG-18115, Vancouver British Columbia Canada
1944 - Death: Edith Jessie WATSON-1151, Pulham Market Norfolk England
1944 - Death: Minnie S RICHARDS-20293, Bristol Gloucestershire England
2007 - Death: Marva JONES-29097, Blanding Utah 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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