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Wednesday 11 September 2019 - Number 5907

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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

IPart 10.

SCHOOL

The school was less than a quarter of a mile away. Between parallel side roads of late nineteenth century houses an oblong block held the separate buildings of the infant school, the Elementary school and the Grammar school. It was a gentle sloping site with the New River flowing south along the upper western boundary bringing drinking water to London from Hertford. 

The infants’ school was between the other two and shared an asphalt playground with the girls of the Elementary school. The boys of the elementary school had their play ground facing the other road, firmly separated from the girls by a high brick wall on either side of which were built the children’s loos. 

The Grammar school was on the downhill side of the block, separated from the rest by a foot passage which ran parallel to the High Street through all the side roads. The iron railings round the school were set in strong brick piers and gated in the same style, a line of Plane trees were well established and were as un-climbable and as sturdy as the railings themselves.

The buildings were no-nonsense and built to last. Plenty of glazed brick and most lower walls of dark colour. Classrooms were built to hold about thirty and the desks and seats all-in-one in pairs.

The first day at school sticks in memory. It was the first real contact with kids in the mass and the first contact with any authority other than parental. At that time there were no nursery schools or crèches as mothers, nor indeed, didn’t married women in general, go out to work. I started school a month or two after I was five with the worst of the winter out of the way. 

Mother took me and the Head mistress saw us, having established her identity she passed me over to the class teacher to absorb into the mass. The teacher kept me with her during the morning assembly then brought me into the class, found me a desk, it cannot have been very traumatic as the rest has faded away.

Our lessons as infants were the three R’s punctuated with drawing and games. The alphabet and tables were chanted in unison. We wrote and made our drawings in chalk on pint-sized blackboards which slotted into the front of the desks. Some kids were bright and some kids were dim but everyone learned; there were no options on offer. Before long we graduated to pen and ink writing in exercise books with inky fingers, scratchy pens and ink blots. Ink was still king and ball point easy scribble still twenty years ahead.

School dinners were also twenty years in the future. All kids walked home for their dinners and back for the afternoon school. School milk started however in my first year or two at school. The little third of a pint bottles turned up in the morning break and there was much bubbling noise as the last drop was sucked up through the straws.

On the other side of the road from school was the Primitive Methodist church where I went, reluctantly and intermittently, to Sunday school. Mum and Dad did not go to church but Sunday school was the one thing in those days so I went for a while though they did not insist when I opted out. 

All that sticks in my mind is a Harvest Festival where I had been inveigled into read a poem about a windmill. It was the only time I saw my mother in church until I got married.

When we moved into junior section of the Elementary School, the horizons of our lessons broadened to include history geography & some science. There was now an objective in front of us, the entrance exam for the Grammar schools which were themselves the first step towards better paid jobs further ahead. Classes were now divided by ability into A, B and C and school reports began to arrive, largely designed I suspect simply to prod all and sundry to greater effort. I believe the teaching must have been good though it was a bit double edged for me. The first year in Grammar school had nearly all been done before and the need to work faded.

At the elementary school there was no sports field but we managed to have a Sports Day at a ground near Muswell Hill. How everyone got there remains a mystery but the sun shone, there were sack races, egg and spoon races and mums races and a good time was had by all. Running was never a favorite pastime for me it was only done when unavoidable. Swimming was another matter however and we were lucky in that there was a swimming pool in the basement of the grammar school next door. Here we were permitted a Saturday morning class for a dozen or so and I achieved the great heights of a certificate to say I could swim fifty yards.   

To be continued tomorrow
A Child of the Twenties

A suburban childhood of the Twenties 

seen from the Ninteen Nineties
by my late father

John Robert Laws 1921-2008

Part 11.



To be continued tomorrow
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to be continued tomorrow

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Family events for today Wednesday 11th September

 BIRTHS 
1664 - Christen: Elizabeth LAWES-395, Upwell Norfolk England

 1808 - Baptism: Michael LAWES-268, Costessey Norfolk England

 1825 - Baptism: Sophia LAWS-6096, Stratton Strawless Norfolk England

1835 - Baptism: George Henry LAWS-4467, Southwark Surrey England

1847 - Birth: John William LAWS-25931, (Turncock)  Saint George Hanover                   Square Middlesex England

1856 - Birth: William John Munday LAWS-19175, Chertsey Surrey England

1862 - Birth: John LAWS-44464, (Shipwright)

1862 - Birth: Frederick LAWS-4235, (Brickworks Labourer)  Sproughton
           Suffolk England

1877 - Birth: Annie LAWS-43198,

1877 - Birth: William Edward LAWS-5544, (Railway Signalman)  Chilton                         Durham England

1889 - Birth: Thomas LAWS-3913, (Miner) Murton Durham England

1895 - Birth: Arthur Henry LAWES-21762,  (RN Able Seaman SS/4964)                           Salisbury, Wiltshire England

1896 - Birth: Rosa Helen Bullard LAWS-37967, Sydenham Kent England

1901 - Birth: James A LAWES-47030,

1903 - Birth: Archibald LAWES-31301 (Transport Manager Furniture                               Removals)  Lambeth Surrey England

1904 - Birth: Ethel LAWS-36241, Texas United States

1906 - Birth: Edwin Kingsley (LAWS-16906, (Reverend)  Penarth Glamorgan                    Wales

1909 - Birth: Una Maude LAWS-36285, Calcutta Bengal India


1916 - Birth: Phyllis LAWS-20067,

 MARRIAGES
1580 - Marriage: Anthony LAWES-2709 and Katherine RIDDELL-2710,                           Newcastle upon Tyne Northumberland England

1794 - Marriage: William LAWS-39317 and Sarah BARNES-39318, Lambeth                   Surrey England


1808 - Marriage: John LAWES-321 and Mary OLIVER-331, Breamore                             Hampshire England

 1811 - Marriage: William LAWS-35637 and Sarah WRAIGHT-9283,                                 Goodnestone Kent England

 1879 - Marriage: John BRAWLEY-37426 and Martha LAWS-37425,
           Parker County Texas United States


1879 - Marriage: John A LAWS-18950 and Carrie A FLACK-18951,
           Shelby Missouri United States

1912 - Marriage: Frederick Alfred LAWES-35158 and Rose Etta Lucy JAMES-               29269, 

 1920 - Marriage: Robert LAWS-21828 (ARMY Driver T/365)  and Lilian Ellen                 KIDNER-48506, Kings Norton Worcestershire England

1929 - Marriage: Edward Victor LAWS-19703 (Housing Managing Clerk)  and                 Edith CHITTY-39378, Bramley Surrey England

DEATHS and BURIALS 
1853 - Burial: George LAWS-41996, Walcot, Bath Somerset England

 1870 - Death: John Graves  LAWES-2133, (Boot & Shoe Maker)

1907 - Death: Ida May LAWS-20118, 

1907 - Burial: Edith Hannah LAWS-7403, Dutton Park, Brisbane Queensland                  Australia

1919 - Death: Ann (LAWS-6588, Spinster) Walthamstow Essex England

1939 - Death: Nathan LAWS-20147, 

1971 - Death: Myrtie Asbury LAWS-22005, Carroll County Masachusetts 
           United States

1982 - Death: Johanna LAWS-16670, Drummoyne, New South Wales Australia

2006 - Death: Norma LAWS-34813, Kings County, Washington United States

2006 - Death: Stephen Dexter LAWS-22785, Stanley North Carolina 
           United States

MISCELLANEOUS 
1914 - Enlistment: Matthew Smith (ARMY 16658) LAWS-28267, Wallsend Northumberland England
1914 - Enlistment: John (ARMY Private 12401) LAWS-28246, North Shields Northumberland England

OTHER BIRTHS
1817 - Baptism: Robert LAWS-6588, (Joiner & Licensed Victualler)  Torpenhow             Cumberland England

 1856 - Birth: Edwin George WEBBER-30265, (House Furnisher's Manager)  
           Sion Road, Bristol Gloucestershire England

1589- Birth: George  SKINN-28091,  (Miner) Leeds West Yorkshire England

1901 - Birth: Rhoda HAMILTON-27764, Stoke Poges Buckinghamshire England

1911 - Birth: Herbert John FOLEY-45143, Hertford Hertfordshire England

1913 - Birth: Doris Kathleen  SILK-44129, (Provisions Saleswoman) Peckham                  Surrey England

OTHER MARRIAGES
1795 - Marriage: John (Mill Mechanic) MCMINN-12150 and Mary LAPHRAIK
          -21316, Muirkirk AYR Scotland

OTHER DEATHS
1895 - Death: Jannet KENNEDY-37665, Lower Stewiacke, Colchester County,                 Nova Scotia, Canada
1920 - Death: Sarah E HOLMES-24553, Syracuse New York United States

1963 - Death: Roy McIntosh BENSTED-11267,

1927- Death: Rachael Emeline MILLER-35221, Graham, Alamance County                    North Carolina United States

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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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