Thursday 13th December 2018 - Number 3336

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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)

PEOPLE 1

PART 10

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.

The dress of the period is familiar from photographs but the black and white of these photos do not tell us how much colours changed. These monochrome photos are perhaps appropriate to the rather drab colours of everyday wear. Grey, black and white was definitely favourites except for special occasions. Green was thought unlucky by some though my mother had a brilliant green evening dress for one special occasion. Red tended to be associated with the immoral, so one was left with brown and blue and usually dark at that.

Even holiday wear was much less colourful, white flannels and a navy-blue blazer being about the height of seaside fashion for Pater families. The ladies did much better with flower patterned fabrics. For better or for worse the mini skirt hadn't been invented and the bikini was still the name of an unknown Pacific island.

Among the street people with a distinctive dress, the policeman stood out. A big man in his navy-blue tunic and trousers, a leather belt around his middle with a bulls-eye torch at the rear and his outfit completed with a proper Bobbies helmet on his head and big black boots on his feet for pavement pounding. Just occasionally his whistle might be heard shrilling, as he chased some malefactor down the road. More often he was seen but not heard as he came by on foot, or on his bike with his rain cape neatly folded over the handlebars.

Our family doctor lived just across the way in a sizable corner house. I saw him from time to time when I had various childhood ailments, but his likeness escapes me. My mother always thought me thin and needing fattening up but rather doubting when the doctor included pork in his dietary recommendations. Anyway, I ate like a horse the only dislike I can remember was the kidney in steak and kidney pudding. The doctor had installed a machine for 'sun-ray treatment' and my mother took me over to him several times for a dose of the beneficial light. It was some sort of ultraviolet light emission which would frighten a quack silly today but in small doses probably did neither good or harm.       

To be continued tomorrow

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               EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 13th December 

    

Family Events

BIRTHS and BAPTISMS   

1772 - Birth: James LAWS-40791, Westminster, Worcester County Massachusetts United States

1850 - Birth: Martha M LAWS-19795

1863 - Birth: John LAWS-3559, (Coal Miner) Sleekburn Northumberland England

1863 - Baptism: Emma Elizabeth  LAWS-3433, (Kitchen Maid) Horstead Norfolk England

1865 - Birth: Alice Marianne LAWES (LAROSS) -255, Westminster Middlesex England

1868 - Baptism: Isabella LAWS-4679, 

1875 - Birth: Horace E F LAWES-49152, (Body Maker Retired)  

1879 - Birth: Emanuel LAWS-3120, (Ag Lab) Emneth Norfolk England

1883 - Birth: James LAWS-42289, (Assistant Maintenance Foreman in Aircraft Factory) 

1891 - Birth: Beatrice LAWS-11144, Cooper, Delta County, Texas United States

1893 - Birth: William LAWES-24478, (RN F4317) Chelmsford Essex England

1896 - Birth: Robert LAWS-44515, (Colliery Coal Cutterman) 

1901 - Birth: William LAWS-48037, (ARMY Retired RAMC)  

1902 - Birth: Edith Grace LAWS-35617, (Hospital Orderly) Lambeth Surrey England

1903 - Birth: Sarah Louise LAWS-35839, 

1905 - Birth: Nellie R B LAWS-42421, 

1914 - Birth: Harry LAWS-37556, (Postman) 

1915 - Birth: Doris LAWES-48256, (Dental Wax Sorter) 

1916 - Birth: Charles Walter LAWS-22259, (ARMY Private 4619213) Hull East Yorkshire                     England

1918 - Birth: Ethel Mary LAWS-7173, (Spinster) Wood Green Middlesex England

           (My paternal Aunt)

MARRIAGES

1785 - Marriage: John ROWE-6143 (Bachelor)  and Mary LAWS-7526, (Spinster) 
           Saint Marylebone Middlesex England

1827 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-29646 (Ostler) and Jane LEWINS-29647, Chester le Street                     Durham England
1863 - Marriage: Samuel LAWES-11435 (Teamster)  and Frances Elizabeth PYE-                                   10182 (Widow), Booton Norfolk England

1868 - Marriage: John LAWS-37270 (Labourer)  and Mary Ann LAPWOOD-37271, (Servant)             West Ham Essex England

1868 - Marriage: Charles LAWS-4416 (Ag Lab) and Sarah Ann TUCK-15590, Fincham                          Norfolk England

1873 - Marriage: Henry Brazier PASSMORE-1486 (Sign Writer)  and Martha LAWES-1485,               Camberwell Surrey England

1890 - Marriage: Thomas LAWES-20941 (General Labourer) and Lucy Ann BUSHELL-                       30614, Ashle, Ryde Isle of Wight England

1915 - Marriage: Albert Edward LAWES-712 (Cowman)  and Kate MILLER-713, West Cowes              Isle of Wight England

DEATHS and BURIALS

1747 - Burial: Anne LAWS-31115, Rotherhithe Surrey England

1882 - Death: William K LAWS-7129, Darlinghurst New South Wales Australia
1883 - Burial: James LAWS-27199, 
1913 - Will  Dated: Annie Emma LAWS-8587, 

1915 - Death: Mary LAWS-24886, (Widow) Kansas City, Jackson County Missouri 

           United States

1917 - Death: Harold Bennett LAWES-22170, (Canadian Navy Able Seaman VR/2614)  

1921 - Death: Daniel W LAWS-16671, (Pvt)  

1934 - Death: Elsie LAWS-17500 (Spinster)  Riding Mill Corbridge on Tyne Northumberland               England (Farnley Gates)    

1952 - Death: Jesse William George LAWES-24456, (Retired Engine Driver)  Portsmouth                       Hampshire England - Residence: Gosport Hampshire England

1954 - Death: Henry Charles LAWS-8620, Townville Queensland Australia

1972 - Death: Alfred John LAWES-16615, (CPL US Army) 

2005 - Burial: Trevor Francis LAWS-26426, Fareham Hampshire England

MISCELLANEOUS

OTHER BIRTHS

1903 - Birth: Sarah L EAGLE-43312, 

1911 - Birth: Anne Cecelia Violet Mary HOWARD-26761, Lambeth Surrey England

OTHER MARRIAGES 

1825 - Marriage: William GRIGGS-29491 and Elizabeth BAYES-29492, Shipdham Norfolk                   England

1825 - Marriage: John BOULTON-26673 (Shepherd) and Mary BLANCHARD-26674, 

           Walesby Lincolnshire England

OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS

1880 - Death: Isabella RAMAGE-46836, 

1976 - Death: Rosetta Gertrude CLARK-30429, Spixworth Norfolk England

2002 - Death: Eva RICHARDSON-12172, Bakersfield California United States

2012 - Death: Ann SPENCE-29736, Norwich Norfolk England

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We have excluded records of living people to protect their Privacy. 

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

R I P

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