Monday 23rd September 2019 - Number 5918

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Robert Henry Laws

1828-1881

Captain of the Barque 'Woolhampton' 

my paternal Great Grandfather

This is Robert Henry's Wife 

Sarah Ann Laws, formerly Fuller

My paternal Great Grandmother

1846-1924

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A Child of the Twenties

A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

seen from the Nineteen Nineties

by my late father

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 22

Further Afield 2

The school journeys abroad were more of a revelation than the camps. Package holidays had not yet been dreamed up and although the wealthy might holiday in the South of France or, you could ‘Join the Army and see the world’, the general urge to travel was only just beginning. 

I recall a book called  ‘France on ten pounds’ but only a few had the inclination, the time and the ten pounds, to follow its inviting advice. Trips by school parties must have whetted the appetite of many in the latter part of the years between the wars.

We went to Paris in 1937, the year of the big Paris Exhibition. It was immediately evident that our French was not their French, understanding some of the written signs seemed to be our limit. As well as the historic buildings of the city which are compulsory viewing for all visitors we were able to visit the exhibition, grandiosely laid out with a long vista of lakes and fountains down a slope towards the Eiffel Tower. The contents of the impressive pavilions seemed insignificant compared to the buildings particularly the Soviet building surmounted by enormous figures of a man and a woman holding aloft a hammer and a sickle.  

What we really enjoyed, however, was the roller coaster ride which must have made tame all previous efforts in this direction. This and the ascent of the Eiffel Tower, which laid out a map of Paris below us were the highlights of the day of sunshine and unnoticed footslogging.

Of the conventional sights of Paris, the stained glass impressed me most and then the white mass of Sacre’ Coeur on its hill looking down on the city, where the ever-present taxis hurtled around corners blaring on their horns. The traffic must have been light or they could not have done it.   

Our few days of cultural duty in Paris done, we had a day or two at Wimereau on the channel coast, lazing, swimming and sitting on the beach. The beach was vast and flat with a good stiff breeze for the sand yachts which trundled along and across at a fair pace. A new sight for me then and one which I have never seen since. 

Even now there seems to be an air of the past, over the French channel coast resorts, even those destroyed in the war and have been since rebuilt, it would have been impossible to have imagined one to be on the English side of the channel.  

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In 1938 the school trip was to Italy, this was much more adventurous even apart from the political troubles which led to the war a year later.  We left Southgate tube station in the late afternoon to get the train from London and crossed the channel overnight to get to another train to trundle across France and through the fantastic alpine scenery to Milan in Northern Italy. 

Milan was just hot. We duly admired the thousand or so little spires of the enormous cathedral but saw very little or the ornate interior because we were shooed out on account of our short sleeves, 

Florence and Verona were different, they still are, despite the ravages of the motor car, and even as teenagers, I think we appreciated their beauty and agelessness despite our considerable interest in ice cream and fizzy bottled orangeade which we had discovered. You see little in a couple of days but these visits like the Italian ice cream awakened a  taste for more.

No loitering, however, on to Venice which was busy being itself, more quietly than it does now. We duly traversed the Grand Canal by Vaporetto, under the Rialto Bridge and on to St Marks Square and the pigeons. It was memorable and it all matched the guide books so we went on to the Lido for a swim in the Med. This was a real revelation. 

The water was WARM not like the sea we knew at home. You could stay in without getting cold. The discovery of the journey.

More trains, wooden seats, all tracks lead to Rome, a quick glimpse really, a full week spent wandering around Rome in later life only scratched the surface.

More trains, more wooden seats down south to Napoli. This was before the motor car engulfed Italy and I have photos to prove it showing the Naples seafront with nothing more than a couple of policemen and a tricycle ice cream vendor. 

We did not see the slums of Naples, but we did visit a home, hutted camp that is, for orphans who were at least fed and clothed while they learned to shout for 'Il Duce’. 

We were treated to a glass of sweet wine and a speech in Italian pledging friendship from a uniformed gent who presumably ran the place. Back at the hotel that evening we ate at tables set in the open air under a lemon tree from which I had to pick a small souvenir. 

be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Monday 23 September

 BIRTHS 
1621 - Baptism: Ellinor LAWS-6307, Holbeton Devonshire England

1856 - Birth: William John LAWS-23883,  (Royal Navy 88527)  Landport                         Hampshire England

1875 - Birth: Frederick William LAWES-23953, (Royal Navy 278717)                                 Hornington Wiltshire England

1876 - Birth: John LAWS-42574, (Labourer)

1879 - Birth: Harry E LAWES-35453, (Farm Worker) Market Weston Suffolk                 England

1887 - Birth: Edward B LAWS-43440, (Baker Disabled)

1891 - Birth: John LAWS-43503, (Incapacitated Miner)

1901 - Birth: William F LAWES-46672, (Fish Salesman)

1903 - Birth: William Hall LAWS-35704, (Lt Cmdr Royal Navy)
           Widnes Lancashire England

1905 - Birth: Elizabeth Storey LAWS-23661, North Seaton Northumberland                     England

1907 - Birth: James LAWS-47308, (Colliery Stone Man (Below Ground) )

1908 - Birth: Helen Louise LAWS-48795, Colorado, United States

1908 - Birth: George Henry LAWS-32044, South Shields Durham England

1916 - Birth: Kenneth G LAWES-46958, (Engineers Progress Planner)

1916 - Birth: Sophia LAWS-42752, (Factory Operative)

MARRIAGES
1588 - Marriage: Thomas BROTHER-1720 and Cicyle LAWES-1721, Norwich                 Norfolk England

1747 - Marriage: Samuel LAWS-4623 and Margaret ALGERS-4624, Roydon by               Diss Norfolk England

1856 - Marriage: John Wesley LAWS-11092 and Susan Jane WILLIAMS-11093,

1910 - Marriage: Frank James LAWES-15719 (Artist & Designer)  and Florence             Beatrice WIDDOWS-35653, Romford Essex England

1916 - Marriage: Albert SPINK-1247 (Gardener) and Lily Maria LAWES-1248,               Felthorpe Norfolk England

1922 - Marriage: William Gerald LAWES-4 and Rosa Annie Eleanor INGRAM-             5, Southfields Surrey England

1933 - Marriage: Romie Marion LAWS-29861 and Mrs Mary DAVIDSON-29865,
           Weakley County, Tennessee USA

DEATHS 

1893 - Death: William LAWES-1261, (Gentleman)  Quemerford, Calne Wiltshire             England

1899 - Burial: Abbet Eli William LAWS-35505, (Infant 8 mths old) Newtown,                   Kinson Dorset England

1913 - Death: Richard William LAWS-4243, (Clerk to Copper Mining Company)             Brighton Sussex England

1923 - Death: Gwendoline May LAWES-25307,

1928 - Death: Joseph Parry LAWS-4458, (Analytical Chemist)
           Bayswater Middlesex England

1933 - Death: George Herbert LAWES-744, (Ag Lab) Coombe Bissett Wiltshire               England

1936 - Death: Henry Edmond LAWS-41088,

1936 - Death: William Wilson LAWS-7466, (Grocers Traveller)  Somersham                      Suffolk England

1950 - Death: Hilda Nellie LAWES-28941, (Sampler)  Chiswick Middlesex                         England

1961 - Death: Leonard Gilbert LAWES-36415, (Insurance Clerk)  Surbiton                        Surrey England but burial Hull East Yorkshire England

1962 - Death: Cuthbert F LAWS-33698, Sonoma California USA

1972 - Death: George Cruse LAWS-31750, (Bursar of Lincoln College Oxford                   since 1953)  Oxford Oxfordshire England

1982 - Death: Walter Leslie LAWES-24041, (Baker)  Penrith, New South Wales                Australia

1985 - Death: Leonard George LAWS-35880, (Farmer/Cowman) Northallerton                 North Yorkshire England

1985 - Death: Katie Pearl LAWS-19123,

1994 - Death: Staci Michelle LAWS-20015, Fort Smith Arizona United States

2000 - Burial: Ivy Gloria LAWS-25178, (Cashier)  Christchurch New Zealand

MISCELLANEOUS 

1866 - Occupation: Octavius LAWS-26607, (2nd Mate on ship "Racehorse") 

1939 - Residence: Roland Victor LAWES-20517, (Flour Millers Clerk) Dover                   Kent England

1952 - Residence: Ernest John Woodford LAWES-693, (Railway Signalman)                      Salisbury, Wiltshire England

OTHER BIRTHS 

1852 - Birth: Jemima Elvina PEARSON-32581, Henderson, North Carolina                     United States

1852 - Birth: Mary Penelope PEARSON-13528, Henderson, North Carolina                     United States

1874 - Birth: Lily Rosanna BATTLE-34718, Campsey Ash Suffolk England

1878 - Birth: Harry Charles LAMPORT-27782, Hale Surrey England

1900 - Birth: Alwyn Keith WARREN-25201, (Bishop the Right Reverend)                         Wellington New Zealand

1905 - Birth: Zola M CUNNINGHAM-45181, Mississippi USA

1909 - Birth: Elizabeth EARLS-47296, (At Worsted Mill)

1912 - Birth: Lavinia HUNTER-39990,

1920 - Birth: William Eric PENN-42922, Hemsworth West Yorkshire England

OTHER MARRIAGES

OTHER DEATHS

1905 - Death: Marian FORSYTH-7240, (Widow Independent means) Tynemouth             Northumberland England

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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.

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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