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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 22
The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches, or for cricket in summer as well as grass tennis courts. Sport was encouraged and every Saturday morning there was a big turnout of teams to compete with other schools. I was no good at football and played in the fifth eleven which regularly lost by astronomical scores. Cricket was a little better and I reached the second eleven without any great success.
Having moved to Southgate, most of my swimming was done in the open air pool at Barrowell Green. This was an old pool and a little cramped, but I spent many happy hours there (instead of doing my homework). The pool was supposed to get a bit of heat from the dust destructor furnace next door but this must have been minimal as the temperature in the early part of the season was often 60-61F, All our school swimming was at this pool and we could get cheap tickets at school (one old penny) for use out of school hours. Unless it was raining, when you could have the pool almost to yourself, there was always a crowd of school friends there, sunning, swimming, fooling and flirting.
SPORT
We were kindred spirits with common interests in mathematics and woodwork. The maths did not get that far as the ‘mathematics’ – more advanced, which a few of us did as an extra subject for Matric, was only on the fringes.
The woodwork turned out more useful and the final exams we spent all our time in the woodwork room making equipment for the physics lab.
The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches, or for cricket in summer as well as grass tennis courts. Sport was encouraged and every Saturday morning there was a big turnout of teams to compete with other schools. I was no good at football and played in the fifth eleven which regularly lost by astronomical scores. Cricket was a little better and I reached the second eleven without any great success.
The one sport that interested me was swimming. Having learnt to swim at elementary school, I continued to enjoy it and as the years went by more as more public pools opened up. The first one I used was the old indoor pool at Wood Green. I do not know when this one was opened, but my mum & dad had used it before my time. I first used it before I could swim properly and I was so small that the water in the shallow end came up to my chin.
Being an indoor-pool, it was heated. The only other indoor heated pool I came across was somewhere in Tottenham, where I went and swam in an
inter-school gala, the details of which escape me. The first of the ‘new’ open air pools was the Hornsey pool situated between Crouch End and ‘Ally Pally’. It was fine in the summer sunshine and Harry and I used it a few times before we moved away from Wightman Road. After that, we cycled out at weekends to the new pool at Enfield which was more spacious, after swimming we cycled back more slowly with protesting muscles.
inter-school gala, the details of which escape me. The first of the ‘new’ open air pools was the Hornsey pool situated between Crouch End and ‘Ally Pally’. It was fine in the summer sunshine and Harry and I used it a few times before we moved away from Wightman Road. After that, we cycled out at weekends to the new pool at Enfield which was more spacious, after swimming we cycled back more slowly with protesting muscles.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 23rd December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1781 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWS-6895, Saint James Pockthorpe Norfolk England
1804 - Baptism: Benjamin LAWES-38174, (Farm Bailiff) West Lavington Wiltshire England
1808 - Christen: William LAWS-8063, South Shields Durham England
1832 - Baptism: Samuel LAWS-32708 (Millmaker) Shoreditch Middlesex England
1837 - Birth: Samuel P LAWS-30396, (Farmer) Bowing Green, Kentucky United States
1856 - Birth: Margaret Ellen LAWS-19549, Ripley Indiana United States
1876 - Birth: Eliza LAWS-4324, Sproughton Suffolk England
1880 - Birth: Henry S LAWS-42305, (Postal Overseer)
1880 - Birth: William S LAWS-8390, Chelsea Middlesex England
1885 - Birth: Albert LAWS-48157, (Meat & Offal Salesman & Widower)
1888 - Birth: Horace Caleb LAWS-40379, Camden New Jersey United States
1896 - Birth: George LAWS-47683, (Gas Stoker)
1896 - Birth: George William Edward LAWS-15308, West Ham Essex England
1897 - Baptism: William Walter LAWES-40347, (Cinema Operator) East Greenwich Kent England
1900 - Baptism: Florence Dorothy LAWS-26882, Wandsworth Surrey England
1903 - Birth: George LAWS-42295, (Builders Labourer)
1907 - Birth: John Leonard Miller LAWS-21529, (Dock Worker) Hull East Yorkshire England
1910 - Birth: Dorothy LAWS-42278, (Senior Comptometer Operator)
1913 - Birth: Annie LAWS-44040, (General Maid)
1918 - Birth: Jack Jefferson LAWS-46896, (Carpenter) Yancy County North Carolina United States
1919- Birth: Freda Barbara LAWS-35731,
MARRIAGES
1766 - Marriage: William ASHBROOK-22733 and Anne LAWS-22732, Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1834 - Marriage: George BALDWIN-4408 and Mary LAWS-4409, Portsmouth Hampshire England
1855 - Marriage: Christopher Leigh EVANS-42873 and Rebecca Postern LAWS-4123, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1880 - Marriage: William H SHAW-16554 and Harriett M LAWS-16555, Rochester New York United States
1889 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-29834 (Shipwright in HM Dockyard) and Fanny Charlotte OBEE-29835, Rochester Kent England
1855 - Marriage: Christopher Leigh EVANS-42873 and Rebecca Postern LAWS-4123, Bethnal Green Middlesex England
1880 - Marriage: William H SHAW-16554 and Harriett M LAWS-16555, Rochester New York United States
1889 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-29834 (Shipwright in HM Dockyard) and Fanny Charlotte OBEE-29835, Rochester Kent England
1899 - Marriage: George Charles LAWES-1009 (Electric Engine Driver) and Marian GLASSCO-37286,
West Ham Essex England
West Ham Essex England
1899 - Marriage: James Douglas LAWS-5248 (Boilersmith Shipyard) and Mary Jane BELL-29004,
Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1905 - Marriage: William Edward ROSE-20763 and Florence Beatrice LAWS-8450, Bothel Demesne Northumberland England
1918 - Marriage: Thomas Charles LAWS-18370 (Corporation Gas Fitter) and Eva Elizabeth YEARSLEY-
43097, Ditton Lancashire England
43097, Ditton Lancashire England
1939 - Marriage: Leslie William MICHEL-38339 and Olga Edith LAWES-38338,
1939 - Marriage: Frank George LAWS-34853 and Kathleen Freda COOK-34854,
1939 - Marriage: Albert ROBERTS-20782 and Mabel Winifred LAWS-20781, (Tailoress) Kensington
Middlesex England
Middlesex England
1803 - Death: Leah LAWES-589, Saint Marylebone Middlesex England
1842 - Death: Sophia Mary LAWS-8177,
1893 - Death: William LAWS-8036, (Innkeeper) Lowestoft Suffolk England
1913 - Death: George LAWS-5868, (Farmer 175 Acres) Houghton Northumberland England
1931 - Death: Isabella LAWS-8125, (Spinster) Dover Kent England
1916 - Death: Sarah LAWS-7992,
1960 - Death: George Jamison LAWS-39316, (Milk Bar Attendant) Clapham Surrey England
1963 - Death: Leonard Alfred LAWS-15564, (Gardener Private) Norwich Norfolk England
1965 - Death: George Herbert LAWES-39640, Birchington Kent but resided at
Margate Kent England
2009 - Death: Edwin John LAWS-28441,
1899 - Residence: George Charles LAWES-1009, (Electric Engine Driver) West Ham Essex England
1907 - Residence: Henry LAWS-12533, (Innkeeper "The Old Ship") The Old Ship, Beer Lane,
Great Tower Street, London
1907 - Residence: Henry LAWS-12533, (Innkeeper "The Old Ship") The Old Ship, Beer Lane,
Great Tower Street, London
1960 - Residence: George Jamison LAWS-39316, (Milk Bar Attendant) Tulse Hill Surrey England
1963 - Miscellaneous: Walter Kenneth LAWS-42330,
1963 - Residence: Leonard Alfred LAWS-15564, (Gardener Private) East Dereham Norfolk England
1940 - Residence: Rudolph Joseph STROHAHN-45983, (Chauffeur) Marks Tey Essex England
1949 - Miscellaneous: Francis William LAWS-5746, (Company Director & Freeman )
OTHER BIRTHS
1839 - Birth: Edgar WHITTON-24044, (Tailor & Shopkeeper) Stradbroke Suffolk England
1860 - Baptism: Tom WOODMAN-28564,
1894 - Birth: Mabel Mary Eliza PRINGLE-27840,
1895 - Birth: Robert COOKE-29730,
1911 - Birth: Elizabeth Virginia MOLTENO-13949, Cape Town, South Africa
OTHER MARRIAGES
1810 - Marriage: James LITTLE-14189 and Eleanor CHARTERS-14188, Aspatria Cumberland England
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1858 - Death: Thomas WEBB-12496, (Carpenter) Claydon Buckinghamshire England
1926 - Death: Alice WOODCOCK-10133, Doncaster West Yorkshire England
1926 - Death: Alice WOODCOCK-10133, Doncaster West Yorkshire England
1967 - Death: Daisy Ethel Violet HARDING-7172, Hertford Hertforshire England
(My paternal grandmother)
(My paternal grandmother)
2003 - Death: Margaret Pauline HAYES-20540, Centralia, Marion County Illinois United States
2005 - Death: Sandra REDDING-21363, Greenville SC United States
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PLEASE NOTE GDPR (2018) PRIVACY TERMS
We have excluded records of living people to protect their
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We only show births before 1920 and marriages before 1940.
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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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