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Saturday 14th September 2019 - Number 5910

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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
R I P

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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 14.

SPORT

The large playing field had room for several football and hockey pitches or in summer for cricket, 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 and 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.

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. 


It was a sign of the changing times in the thirties that while this old pool had no car park, just a cramped bicycle area, the new pool at Enfield had a large car park. The latest pool completed in my schooldays was at New Southgate in Durnsford Road. This was the only one I knew with full height high diving boards. This kept the pool noticeably colder than the others and it did not become popular except in very hot weather.
        

to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Saturday 14th September

  BIRTHS 
1806 - Birth: Jerimiah Wicum LAWS-32922, Wilkes County North Carolina                 United States
1823 - Baptism: Harriett LAWS-21539, Littleport Cambridgeshire England

1845 - Baptism: Isabella LAWES-1200, Cambridge Cambridgeshire England

1853 - Birth: George LAWS-5284, (Labourer Cement Works) Frindsbury Kent               England

1867 - Birth: Joseph Charles  LAWS-3366,(Farm Bailiff) Horstead Norfolk                       England

1870 - Baptism: Ernest John Woodford LAWES-693, (Railway Signalman)                       Donhead Saint Mary Wiltshire England

1871 - Birth: James G LAWS-46039, (Greengrocer)

1873 - Birth: Alfred Edgar Edwin LAWES-446, (Railway Guard)  Cupernham,               Romsey Hampshire England

1903 - Birth: Ethel Grace LAWES-35050,

1912 - Birth: Florence LAWS-3744, Anlaby East Yorkshire England

1914 - Birth: John C LAWES-46723, (ARP & Metal Worker) 

1915 - Birth: Nellie LAWS-43173, (Shop Assistant Electrical)

1916 - Birth: Richard Harrison LAWS-16413, (Sgt US Army)

1918 - Birth: Sarah LAWS-29839, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland                         England


MARRIAGES
1865 - Marriage: Charles LAWES-853 (Licensed Victualler)  and Lydia                             HUGHES-23083, Worcester Worcestershire England

1874 - Marriage: Charles Maurice LAWS-4682 (Blacksmith)  and Mary Ann                   CLEMENT-4683, Lambeth Surrey England

1889 - Marriage: William LAWES-32259 (Gardener)  and Leah FRANKS-36371,             Edgware Middlesex England

1892 - Marriage: Arthur LOOSEMORE-22073 and Elizabeth LAWES-22072,                 Brooke Township, Lambton County, Ontario Canada

1918 - Marriage: Arthur Stanley  LAWS-14416 (Commonwealth Audit Dept)                   and  Bernice Maud BRUNTNELL-12259, Leichhardt, New South Wales                 Australia

1931 - Marriage: Maurice William Parry LAWS-36280 (Tea Planter circa 1949) and Dorothy Randall EALES-42345, Northwood Middlesex England

 DEATHS 
1803 - Death: Thomas LAWS-3591, Westminster, Worcester County                                   Massachusetts United States

 1903 - Death: Edgar Ripsher Joseph LAWS-40513, Goulburn New South Wales               Australia

 1915 - Death: Joseph Henry  LAWS-7914, (ARMY Sapper 51631) France

 1918 - Death: Joseph Henley LAWS-30281, (Blacksmith & Ship Plater)  
           France & Flanders

 1929 - Death: Samuel Dawson LAWS-44505, (Draper) Ventnor, Isle of Wight                     England
1948 - Burial: Milbert LAWS-16144, (PFC US Army) Rock Island National                       Cemetery, Illinois USA

1951 - Death: Ralph LAWS-16412, (PVT CO.B, 7TH BN TC US Army) 

1959 - Burial: Gilbert P LAWS-16336, (Sgt US Army)  San Diego California                     United States

1994 - Death: Mildred LAWS-22130, Saint Albans West Virginia, United States

2006 - Cremation: Derek Ernest LAWS-25418, Ipswich Suffolk England

2015 - Death: Alan Derek LAWES-49595, Hampton Middlesex England

2016 - Death: Jack Richard LAWES-42082, 

MISCELLANEOUS 
1839 - Occupation: William Willoughby LAWS-36291, (Master HEICS  Bengal                Pilot Service) 

1918 - Discharged: George Alfred LAWS-28211, (ARMY Private S4095 &                         Carman) 

 1928 - Naturalization: Robert Reginald LAWES-2452,(Salesman)  Los Angeles                 California United States 

 1939 - Miscellaneous: Hilda Mary LAWS-15660, (Private Means) 


1939 - Miscellaneous: Edith Gertrude LAWS-14515,  (Spinster living on own                      means)

1966 - Residence: Kathleen LAWS-47786, Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland              England

OTHER BIRTHS 
1828 - Birth: Isabella PRINCE-29931, Wilton Wiltshire England
1898 - Birth: Maud Rose BROWN-32262, 

1900 - Birth: Ella Mabel Eugenie STEWARD-32948, 

1912 - Birth: Rosina Mary FURLONG-9850, (Battery Assembler) 

 1914 - Birth: Robert H SMITH-45188, 
1919 - Birth: Lovie BURRIS-29808, Jackson Tennessee United States

OTHER MARRIAGES

OTHER DEATHS
1929 - Death: Catherine CARLYON-3119, Shepparton Victoria Australia

 1935 - Death: Charles Chard STERNE-9751, Tooting Surrey England

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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
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1974-2017
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