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Sunday 15 September 2019 - Number 5911

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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 15.

WANDERERS

There was little opportunity to wander, until going to school opened up new horizons. Once the short walk to school was permitted unaccompanied and a few friends were known, the range of life extended. The familiar places were visited first, the lake in Finsbury Park with its ducks, swans and boats was known already, but now more time was spent with the slides and swings than feeding the ducks. 

It cannot always have been summer though because the lake froze and the ducks sat back on their tails as they landed. Once or twice there were even skaters on the ice skating serenely around the island that normally gave the ducks refuge from human intruders. These short periods of snow and ice and frozen lead pipes which burst are all that early memory holds of winter. Toys and books must have pushed the cold and wet into the background. Even pea soup fogs belong to later childhood.

It seems not long till we found there were other open spaces besides Finsbury Park. Another half mile towards London was Clissold Park. Its sole claim to fame was having a smaller boating pond with canoes which children could take out on those rare occasions when enough pocket money had been saved.

The opposite direction was more rewarding. Ally Pally stands on its hill looking out over London through the haze of coal-burning suburbia. Surrounded by its few acres of green it still had its four chateauesque corners intact before Satan unleashed the telly against humanity. 

We could wander its empty halls and eat our sandwiches beside the pond while the sun shone. Not far from there were the woods, Queens Wood, and Highgate Woods, shady but not thicketed, a small wanderer’s delight. Apart from the occasional dog taking itself for a walk, the animals were only squirrels. The fox had not discovered the joys of urban life and the smaller rodents were not obvious.

The acquision of roller skates which extended the range of wandering on foot from three or four miles distance, to twice that range. I was able to go off for the day with one or two other roller skating fanatics and a supply of sandwiches and lemonade and could get to such fascinating places as the River Lea and Epping Forrest. Watching the lock gates working as barges were pulled through by enormous horses on the towpath filled idle summer hours in those times when the days and the weeks were longer. 

What we called the River Lea was the canal of course, the remains of the river we called the Old Lea, but except in times of flood, it was a rather trifling stream. The canal carried the fuel for the power station at Enfield and also a lot of timber for the various timber yards along its banks. This was all brought from the then very active docks in London and the canal ran north as far as Hertford in territory I could not explore until I got a bike. 

The numerous miles covered on our roller skates on the abrasive stone paving wore their steel wheels smaller and smaller till at last the ball bearings escaped and hard saved pennies had to be spent in Lays Street market where anything could be bought including skate wheels.

I already knew Epping Forest from visits with my father, sometimes with the rest of the family. He knew the area well and no doubt also wandered there as a boy having lived at Tottenham. It sometimes seems that, despite memories, one was less observant as a small child. Despite natural curiosity there is a much smaller base of knowledge with which to compare things. Trees are mostly just trees and only very noticeable birds stand out from the mass, there were squawking Jays flashing away in the trees and newts and tadpoles in the ponds. There were snakes and deer there too but I never saw any deer and only once an adder. The squirrels seemed to have had it to themselves, even the rabbits that overran the countryside kept to the edge of the woodland. For wandering boys the wandering was a joy in itself.

Later wandering became more organised. This started with Scout camps. First came, the Cubs one Whitsun, no further afield than Hatfield Park, then others including Gilwell, the Scout Mecca of which the most memorable item was the rather primitive swimming pool where we were allowed to swim naked, a joy rarely available to a town dweller. 

We travelled to these camps in the back of a lorry and scarcely noticed the discomfort as it was different and cheap. Everything had to be cheap. The sun did not always shine and when we went to Downe in Kent our lorry got us there after dark in a pelting rainstorm in which we set up our tents on a site we could not see. After that, I think I slept soundly, perhaps the ground was softer for the rain. That camp our swimming was in the river Test, it was icy, small boys must be quite mad. 


Swimming seems to have been the main attraction of these camps. At Hayling Island, then little built up, we swam in a sandy inlet where the temperature of the English Channel was moderated by the warm sand as the tide came in.

to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Sunday 15th September
 BIRTHS 
1761 - Birth: Mary LAWES-766, Drayton Norfolk England

1820 - Christen: William K LAWS-6997, Northfleet Kent England

1860 - Birth: David LAWS-42827, (Colliery Pumpman) 

1870 - Birth: Isabella LAWS-3477, (General Servant) Bedlington                                         Northumberland England

1874 - Birth: Newton R LAWS-45194,

1880 - Birth: Arthur Edward LAWES-46777, (Railway Platelayer)

1881 - Birth: George Malcolm LAWS-17475, (Physician)  Paulsboro New Jersey               USA

1883 - Birth: Albert LAWES-43845, (Finnisher at Paper Mill)

1886 - Birth: Elizabeth Ann LAWS-22043, Sunderland Durham England

1887 - Birth: Roland LAWS-42717, (Company Director) 

1889 - Birth: John H LAWES-46826, (Chemist Manure Labourer)

1889 - Birth: John William LAWES-37330, (Private , 2nd Bedfordshire Rgt)                     Doddington Cambridgeshire England

1891 - Birth: Beatrice E LAWS-16734,

1892 - Birth: John G LAWS-43535, (Retail Hat & Clothing Manager)

1892 - Birth: Herbert Edward LAWS-22123, (Shop Assistant) Bolton Lancashire             England

1899 - Baptism: Dora LAWS-17336, Sedgeford Norfolk England

1902 - Birth: Frederick W LAWES-36087, (Dairy Hand Incapacitated) 
           Newburn on Tyne Northumberland England

1906 - Birth: Alice LAWS-20113, Tama County Indiana United States

1911 - Birth: Donald E LAWES-47372, (Fishmonger's Assistant)

1911 - Birth: Donald Edward LAWES-37124, Andover Hampshire England

1914 - Birth: William Frederick LAWES-37519,

1914 - Birth: Robert Franklin LAWS-17605, (Advertising agency executive)                     Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

MARRIAGES
1611 - Marriage: John FLOCKTON-1084 and Annis LAWES-1083, 
           Lammas Norfolk England

 1831 - Marriage: Henry LAWS-5082 and Sarah GOLTRIP-5083,


1853 - Marriage: James A ALLEN-22004 and Margaret LAWS-22003,

1922 - Marriage: George Washington LAWS-49368  (Ag Lab) and Ethel Irene                   OLIVER-49369, Muskogee, Oklahoma United States

1934 - Marriage: Lucious Cubye Jnr (Dickey Clay Company) LAWS-19988 and Mary Elizabeth COOPER-18172, Nashville Howard County AK United States

DEATHS 
1882 - Death: Henry O LAWS-13600, 
1913 - Death: James LAWS-6437, Higham Kent England

1914 - Burial: Charles LAWS-44591, Bletchingley Surrey England

1916 - Death: Thomas LAWS-21839, (ARMY Private 13952)

1916 - Death: Sydney Harold LAWS-21834, (ARMY Private 15658) 
           Stradsett Norfolk England

1916 - Death: G LAWES-21706, (ARMY Private 16404)  

1916 - Death: Stephen LAWS-2936, (Accountant's Clerk) France

1937 - Death: William LAWS-34049, The Middles, South Moor, Stanley Durham

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

1983 - Death: Vivian William LAWS-14406, (Sewing Mechanic)  Hawea 
           New Zealand

1987 - Death: Helene Jeanette LAWS-50117, Oklahoma  Oklahoma, United States

1990 - Death: Vaughn David LAWS-16433, (S1C US Navy)  

1998 - Death: Russell Gary LAWS-16423, (DC3 US Navy)
  
2000 - Burial: Homer Huston LAWS-32537, Nashville Tennessee United States

2002 - Death: Earl William LAWS-10447, Panther Drive, Connelly Springs,                     Hickory North Carolina United States

2003 - Burial: Edward George LAWS-12341, (Turbine Engineer) Springfield                     Illinois United States

MISCELLANEOUS 

1855 - Occupation: Edward LAWS-26603, (Steward on Ship "TELEGRAPH"  

1926 - Emigration: Elizabeth Margaret POTTINGER-44473, (Nurse)  Liverpool             Lancashire England

1926 - Emigration: Patricia Muriel J LAWS-36283,

1926 - Emigration: Edith Maud ALLEN-36279,

1927 - Emigration: Hugh Douglas Willoughby LAWS-16948, (Merchant Navy)                 Liverpool Lancashire England

1942 - Enlistment: Frank Leslie (Plasterer) LAWS-11769, Kensington, Victoria Australia


OTHER BIRTHS 
1812 - Birth: Henry ROGERS-10436, Bombay India

 1854 - Birth: John James GARDINER-35079, West Hartlepool Durham England

 1905 - Birth: William John ADAMS-35414, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire England

 1920 - Birth: Brian Leslie PARISH-28938, 

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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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