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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 9
It is odd to have no memory of a butcher delivering at that time, perhaps my mother preferred to select our meat in the shop. There were certainly butchers boys to be seen on their delivery bicycles with a basket on the front, whistling their way around the streets.
Later, in the thirties, we had a butcher who would call early and then would come back with the meat in time for lunch. Going by the name of Sam Collins he was a big beefy fellow with a perpetual grin who was everybody’s friend. (even I knew Sam ed.)
There were street traders in the twenties as throughout the ages. A muffin man came along the street at weekends ringing his handball with a cloth covering a tray of muffins and crumpets on his head.
From time to time a knife grinder would come along with a grinding wheel attached to the front of his bicycle worked in some mysterious way, from the pedals. He called as he came, offering his services and out of the houses would come, the women with their carvers and kitchen knives to sharpen. Most doorsteps were sandstone anyway so there were plenty who managed well without him.
In the High Street, there were those who offered oddments from doorways, matches and lemons spring to mind. Along the gutters the sandwich board men, walked, enclosed in their advertising matter, or calls to repentance, sometimes singly sometimes in threes or fours in a straggling crocodile.
Occasionally there was an organ grinder on the corner of a side street, winding his handle and his mechanical music would add to the general street noise. There is an impression of noisiness in the High Street.
Apart from the street traders, there were trams clattering on their steel rails, horses were iron shod and so were the wheels of most of the carts. Lorries vans and cars were less well silenced and there was even the occasional steam traction engine. However, there were no motor scooters and the few motorbikes did not roar around.
One faint memory of Green Lanes is of the buses with their cabs shrouded in wire netting to protect the volunteer drivers during the National Strike of 1926.
What a good job there were no television cameras to encourage the attackers.
To be continued tomorrow
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EXTRACTS FROM OUR DATABASE FOR TODAY 12th December
Family Events
BIRTHS and BAPTISMS
1731 - Baptism: James LAWS-38851, Stepney Middlesex England
1772 - Birth: James LAWS-3675, Westminster, Worcester County. Massachusetts United States
1831 - Birth: James LAWS-23218, Culsalmond Aberdeenshire England
1845 - Birth: George Cleadon LAWS-11568,
1849 - Birth: Hannah LAWS-5094, Ditchingham Norfolk England
1856 - Birth: James Lawn LAWS-12330, (Waiter in City) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1860 - Birth: James LAWS-24148, (RN 99545) Great Yarmouth Norfolk England
1873 - Birth: Clara Sophia LAWS-5516, (Spinster) Haveringland Norfolk England
1878 - Birth: Ernest LAWS-32867, (Police Constable Retired) Southwold Suffolk England
1883 - Birth: Herbert James LAWES-20143, Wiltshire England
1889 - Birth: Joe LAWS-43863, (Colliery Hewer)
1894 - Birth: Frank LAWES-25838, (Municipal Clerk Surveyor Dept Kensington)
Acton Middlesex England
1901 - Birth: Kathleen LAWS-48267, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1903 - Birth: Ernest LAWES-37671, (GWR Locomotive Fireman)
1910 - Birth: Olive LAWS-37202, Durham Durham England
1912 - Birth: Edna May LAWES-37714,
1916 - Birth: Cranford Andrew LAWS-39299, Statesville, Iredell County North Carolina
United States
1918 - Birth: Henry FC LAWES-37671, (Patient in ESN Home) LAWS-46635,
1918 - Birth: George LAWS-22424, West Hartlepool Durham England
MARRIAGES
1824 - Marriage: John CRAIGS-29341 and Ann LAWS-29342, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England
1830 - Marriage: William HARRIS-11701 and Mary LAWS-11702, Norwich Norfolk England
1859 - Marriage: William LAWS-4186 (Farmer) and Susannah lately STARFORD formerly MARSH-4187 of Priory Place, Dover Kent England
1907 - Marriage: Harry Graham BOHLMAN-10800 and Winifred Mary Teresa LAWS-10797,
1908 - Marriage: Harry LAWS-3804 (Railway Ganger L N E R) and Frances SPIVEY-3805,
Anlaby East Yorkshire England
1911 - Marriage: Leonard MANSFIELD-30774 (Tram Conductor) and Mildred Emily LAWS-30772,
Harlesden Middlesex England
1912 - Marriage: Ernest Hayman FRAMPTON-12487 and Eva Elizabeth S LAWES-12486, Vancouver British Columbia Canada
1769 - Death: John LAWS-13031, (Woolcomber) The Close, Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumberland England
1879 - Burial: James Henry LAWS-35818, (Infant 3 mths old)
1879 - Burial: James Henry LAWS-35818, (Infant 3 mths old)
1903 - Burial: Emily LAWS-6168, Litcham Norfolk England
1907 - Death: George L LAWS-13718, Henderson County, North Carolina United States
1964 - Death: William Eden LAWS-44622, SOUTH Australia
1978 - Death: Alva Ramsey LAWS-46896,
1981 - Death: Leslie G LAWS-41557, Hayes Middlesex England
1983 - Burial: Sam E LAWS-16624, (Airman 1C US Air Force) Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee United States
1986 - Death: Clinny LAWS-40950,
1987 - Death: Oliver Charles LAWS-14442, Sans Souci New South Wales Australia
Burial: Sutherland New South Wales Australia
1996 - Death: Frank Edwin LAWS-45494, Weymouth Dorset England
1997 - Death: Mary Florence LAWES-14406,
2007 - Death: Ronald Wayne LAWS-48536, Regina Saskatchewan Canada
MISCELLANEOUS
1859 - Residence: William LAWS-4186, (Farmer) Priory Place, Dover Kent England
1860 - Military: John Milligan LAWS-2857, (Navy Officer) Nominated as Naval cadet thence to HMS "Edgar"
OTHER BIRTHS
1779 - Birth: Phillip GREEDUS-48423, Shoreditch Middlesex England
1790 - Baptism: Robert LOTHERINGTON-36970, (Master Mariner) St George in the East Middlesex England
1869 - Baptism: Alice Lydia MOONEY-7196,
1887 - Birth: Zelinn Alberta NORMAN-17813, Polk Missouri United States
1902 - Birth: Emory D WORKMAN-45763,
1904 - Birth: Evelina Sarah Ann SPANDLEY-33268, Norwich Norfolk England
1915 - Birth: Janet West WOOD-17815, San Francisco, California United States
1917 - Birth: Frances Jessica EMPSON-10963, Dover Kent England
1919 - Birth: Lillian Hilda LEWIS-37339
1919 - Birth: Lillian Hilda LEWIS-37339
OTHER MARRIAGES
OTHER DEATHS and BURIALS
1936 - Death: Martha BLAKE-45405, Gethsemane, Greene County, Tennessee, United States
1971 - Death: Mabel Maud STIFF-27247, Cwmbran Glamorgan Wales
1974 - Death: Henry Francis EDWARDS-22394, Kapunda, SA Australia
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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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