This appeared in the Sketch 27 February 1952
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Jeannette Altwegg practicing at Streatham Ice Rink. Secured a gold at the winter Olympics.

Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger,DBE (née Schwab was born On This Day 27 February 1950)

She was Rabbi of the South London Liberal Synagogue in Prentis Road, Streatham from 1977 to 1989 

90 Years ago today
Streatham Ice Rink, Streatham High Road. The opening ceremony on 26th February 1931 by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Lt.Col.A.Bellamy, and the MP for Streatham, Sir William Lane-Mitchell. ( Landmark Lambeth)
Newspaper clip from the Norwood News 1931 Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

On This Day 25 February 1975 Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah was born
A British Indian television presenter and journalist.
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Munchetty was born and raised in Streatham and attended Graveney School.

On This Day 25 February 1879 the burglar and murderer Charles (Charlie) Frederick Peace was executed
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Until Jack the Ripper he was the most infamous criminal in Victorian times and a known burglar in the Streatham area

On This Day 24 February 1872 Stanley Vickers died. He was an MP and a Distiller. His father John Vickers, co-owner of a Vickers Gin and the family lived at Hill House Streatham Common North

Stanley Vickers (31 October 1837 – 24 February 1872) was an English distiller and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons

He was educated at King's College School. and became a distiller and merchant. He was managing partner and half proprietor of J. and J. Vickers and Co. distillery. He was a captain commanding the 5th Kent Artillery Volunteers

At the 1868 general election Vickers was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wallingford. He held the seat until his death aged 34 in 1872.
Vickers married Mary Ianthe Dunbar, daughter of William Dunbar, merchant of Aberdeen and London.

On This Day 23 February 1792 Sir Joshua Reynolds died

Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits.

He was noted for his paintings of the "Streatham Worthies"- a collective description for the circle of literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester.
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Sir Joshua was also a Streatham Worthy

On This Day 23 February 1976 Professor Eric Anderson Walker, an eminent historian of South Africa, died.

He was born at "Craigmore", Polworth Road, Streatham, on 6 September 1886, the eldest son of William Walker (1851–1927) of Leith, Scotland, mercantile clerk, and his wife, Jessie, née Goodman. From Mill Hill School he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he missed a blue as an oarsman but was awarded a first in modern history in 1908.

His first post was lecturer in history at the University College of Bristol, and while there he co-wrote a textbook for secondary schools on English history which went through many editions.

In 1918 the South African College where he had an appointment became the University of Cape Town, and Walker made his department one of the leading departments in the university.

In Cambridge, where he became a fellow of St John's College, he continued his interest in South African history, but he now also wrote on the empire more broadly; his The British Empire: its Structure and Spirit (1943) was well regarded; his Colonies (1944) was wide-ranging and considered the motives for colonization, the policies of the colonial powers, including the Soviet Union, and the future of the colonial empires.

He was an outstanding teacher who made a great impression on his students, and the first-year survey course he introduced in 1923 survived for sixty years. In the early 1930s he served on the university's council and was dean of the arts faculty. Smuts was to suggest that had Walker been available, he would have been appointed principal in 1937.
(Christopher Saunders)
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Announcement of Professor Walker's appointment at Cambridge University (Scotsman 2 May 1936 Image © Johnston Press plc