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Thursday 12th September - Number 5908

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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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to all those who have borne our illustrious
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16,623 Families  +4

120,285 Events  + 12

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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 12.

SCHOOL 2

Generally, in the elementary school, we did all our lessons in the same room but we did have a purpose-built room for woodwork. This was well equipped with benches and hand tools and we got a useful grounding in using them. For me, it was one of the most enjoyable lessons.
The other children at the elementary school were a very normal mix and a reasonable standard of behaviour was enforced anyway. In the playground, our play was, of course, rowdy but there was little real fighting, there was more interest in playing ‘Flickhams’ with cigarette cards. These were in good supply as most men smoked and every packet of fags had a card in it. Later the interest changed to collecting the sets of cards and swapping them to make up sets which are now almost antiques.
Most of my classmates were friendly but although we visited each other’s houses to play, few friendships were long term, because of the need to change schools and move house. Just before I had to take the grammar school entrance exam we moved house from Harringay to Winchmore Hill so I had to take the exam in the new area. Until my time at elementary school ran out a few months after we had moved, mother ferried me to and fro daily in her little car to carry on in the same school till the term was finished and the exam is done.
The move to grammar school was a move to another world. After all, we were in the thirties and 1929 and all that was slipping back behind us. The move to Southgate meant that none of my friends moved on with me to the same school.
It was, of course, an elitist world and the grammar schools were reckoned next in line after the ‘Public’ schools though there was no guarantee that the boy who left the elementary school at the age of fourteen would not become a millionaire quicker than any of them. He would not become a bank clerk or a civil servant however he was saved from being a fighter pilot in the forties.
Within the schools, competition and achievement were what mattered and although the arts and manual skills were not ignored any more than games, there was never a thought that these had in any way the importance of the academic subjects.
The grammar school was based on a large house, or small mansion set in substantial grounds these converted to playing fields. A purpose-built extension doubled the number of rooms and included proper lab facilities. This also provided a large assembly hall with a good stage as well as a separate gymnasium and woodwork and domestic science rooms. The ‘old building’ as it was known would have been a wonderful home in its day. It dated from the early nineteenth century and sat in a high position looking out over the lower land of the Lea valley, a sea of houses by the thirties but a green and pleasant land in earlier days.

It was basically a two-storey house but with a complete basement half sunk in the ground below it and an attic storey half in the roof above. The grand front door led into a circular foyer before giving access to the central hallway where the circular theme continued with a grand staircase to the first floor.  This did not go on up to the servants quarters above, which were served by a small spiral stone stairway which went from the basement to attics. There were perhaps ten rooms large enough to serve as main classrooms with a number of others used as a library, staff rooms, studies etc. The basement still contained a kitchen and its main area was used as a dining room for the twenty or thirty pupils who lived some miles away and were allowed the privilege of school dinners. This part of the basement also served as a music room if the main hall or stage were unavailable. A separate building near the main gate which had probably served as a stable block had been made into two physics labs with an art room above. There were no sign of the stables or coach house; their site may have been covered by the ample bike sheds, the school bus not having been invented. Alongside the bike sheds was a dovecot up on saddle stones, no longer the home of doves, it was probably used as a store by the two groundsmen who kept the playing field as immaculate as the gardens, which no doubt kept by a team of gardeners before them. There was a walled large kitchen garden which had one wall removed and then had been desecrated with asphalt to provide a playground and tennis courts. Around its walls the beautifully trained espalier apple and pear trees had survived to bloom in the spring without the hope of ripening fruit in the autumn.


To be continued tomorrow
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to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Thursday 12th September

 BIRTHS 
1673 - Birth: William LAWS-34999, Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland                   United States

1806 - Birth: Martha LAWES-267, Costessey Norfolk England

1840 - Birth: William Harrison LAWS-12226, Illinois United States

1846 - Birth: Richard William LAWS-4243, (Clerk to Copper Mining Company)             Pimlico Middlesex England

1865 - Birth: Elbert Martin LAWS-41141, Jonesborough, Maurey County                         Tennessee United States

1869 - Birth: Catherine Annie LAWES-12520, Romsey Hampshire England

1873 - Birth: Percy Murray LAWS-11230, Brisbane Queensland Australia

1875 - Birth: Walter LAWS-3002, (Druggist & Photographic Dealer)
           South Shields Durham England

1880 - Christen: William George  LAWES-2624,(Infant 8 mth old)  Felthorpe                   Norfolk England

1886 - Birth: Anna Jane LAWS-19364,

1896 - Birth: Jessie V LAWS-20024,

1898 - Birth: Edward G LAWES-47476, (Postman)

1902 - Birth: Frank LAWES-46666, (Garage Proprieter)

1902 - Birth: Thomas W LAWS-43621, (Hydraulic Pump) West Ham Essex                       England

1902 - Birth: William Claude LAWS-40114, Kingston Surrey England

1905 - Birth: Matthew Dobson LAWS-44952, Gateshead Durham England

1905 - Birth: Albert Edward LAWS-18143, (CPO P/K 63728) South Shields                       Durham England

1906 - Birth: Trentis Carroll LAWS-6586, Silkston, Scott, Missouri United States

1907 - Birth: William Henry LAWES-33443, (Coal Miner below ground)
           Tycroes Pantyffynnon Caernarvonshire Wales

1914 - Birth: Lawrence Owen LAWS-17847 (Boeing Pilot Technician &                             Instructor), Highbridge, New Jersey United States

MARRIAGES
1806 - Marriage: James LOWE-10387 and Anne LAWS-10388, Newcastle upon              Tyne Northumberland England



1872 - Marriage: William Harrison LAWS-12226 and Ida Mae DOW-12227,                     Boulder, Colorado United States

1875 - Marriage: Harry Augustus LAWES-245 (Commercial Traveller) and Elizabeth Margaret TABAR-38849, Walworth Surrey England

1891 - Marriage: William Henry LAWS-32927 and Mary Elizabeth PURDUE-                 32928, 

1928 - Marriage: Clyde Parker LAWS-16090 and Nina May SMITH-16091,                     Mount Vernon, Franklin County Texas United States

DEATHS 

1830 - Death: Frances Theodora LAWS-2816, (6 mths old)  Kirton Suffolk                         England

 1884 - Death: Elma Abia LAWS-13539, Johnson, Kane County Utah 
           United States

 1897 - Death: Ann LAWES-20736, Homington Wiltshire (St Michaels)

 1901 - Death: Cuthbert LAWS-23058, (Infant)  Gateshead Durham England

 1907 - Death: James LAWS-16661, (Coal Miner - Hewer)  
           Backworth Northumberland England

 1915 - Death: Phillip LAWS-21821, (ARMY Private 9394) 
1934 - Death: Mary Ann LAWS-7158, (Spinster) Newcastle upon Tyne                               Northumberland England

1941 - Death: Brenda S LAWS-19330, Harlan County Kentucky United States

1975 - Death: Katherine Lilian LAWS-44334, Billingham Durham England 

MISCELLANEOUS 
1914 - Enlistment: George Alfred LAWS-28211, (ARMY Private S4095 &                         Carman) Winchester Hampshire England

OTHER BIRTHS
1763 - Birth: Elizabeth RICHMOND - SMITH-3441, Heigham Norfolk England
1854 - Birth: Mathias Alfred HERCOCK-44155, Whissendine Rutland England

1857 - Birth: William FITZ-HENRY-36645, (Corn Porter) Shadwall Middlesex                 England

1873 - Birth: Flora BARNETT-22752, 

1880 - Birth: Fred JENNINGS-7020, (Nurseryman)  Stanley cum Wrenthorpe                 West Yorkshire England

1881 - Birth: Carrie Mae WELLER-45056, Washington County Maryland
           United States

1899 - Birth: Amy Pricilla DUVAL-37732,

1909 - Birth: Herbert Peter FULLER-48429, Tottenham Middlesex England

OTHER MARRIAGES
1915 - Marriage: William Joseph SMITHSON-13878 (Licensed Victualler) and                 Rachael HARKER-13877, Wigton Cumberland England

OTHER DEATHS
1917 - Death: Lena J PIERCE-44381, Ontario, San Bernardino California 
           United States 
1967 - Death: John Charles TWEDDLE-3258,

1981 - Death: William BASS-11822,

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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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