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Baron Donald Soper

31/1/2022

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On This Day 31 January 1903 Baron Donald Soper was born. He lived at "Yaverland" Streatham Park.
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Donald Oliver Soper (1903–1998), Methodist minister, was born on 31 January 1903 at 36 Knoll Road, Wandsworth. The first son and first child of the three children of Ernest Frankham Soper (1871–1962), an average adjuster in marine insurance, the son of a tailor, and his wife, Caroline Amelia, née Pilcher (b. 1877), a headmistress and daughter of a builder.
On 30 July 1929 Soper was ordained at Plymouth and on 3 August that year he married Marie Dean (1908–1994) at The Wesleyan Church, Broadway, Streatham.
(Alan Wilkinson)re to edit.
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The Aldrington Road Estate Streatham Park - The Sphere On This Day Saturday 31 January 1953

31/1/2022

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Seymour Hicks

30/1/2022

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Seymour Hicks was born On Ths Day 30th January 1871 
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He appeared at the Streatham Hill Theatre in I Believe and Its You I Want in 1933
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Peter de Wint- Streatham Common

30/1/2022

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On This Day 30 January 1849 the artist Peter de Wint died.
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He painted Streatham Commmon looking west, with Streatham Common North on the right. B/W photograph of a painting by Peter de Wint
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Sir Walter Jack Howell KCB- a witness at the Titanic inquiry

29/1/2022

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On This Day 29 January 1913 Walter Howell died

Sir Walter Jack Howell KCB (1854 - 29 January 1913) was a British civil servant. He was Assistant Secretary to the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. His home was at "Redlynch", Streatham Common. Howell was a witness at the Titanic inquiry after it sank on its maiden voyage in 1912
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A portrait of Howell is held by the National Portrait Gallery by Carl Vandyk ©National Portrait Gallery
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Raman Subba Row

29/1/2022

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On This Day 29th January 1932 Raman Subba Row was born in Pendennis Road, Streatham to an Indian father Panguluri Venkata Subba Rao, of Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh and English mother

Subba Row was educated at Whitgift School and Cambridge University. He was a left-handed batsman and occasional leg-spin and googly bowler. Subba Row was a member of the powerful Cambridge side of the early 1950s and played a few games for Surrey before joining Northamptonshire. Taking over as captain in 1958, he led the side for four seasons and achieved considerable success as a batsman, scoring the county's highest ever innings, 260 not out, in 1955 and then bettering it with 300 against Surrey, the County Champions, at the Oval in 1958, when he shared a record sixth wicket stand of 376 with Albert Lightfoot.

Subba Row played in thirteen Test matches for England, opening the batting regularly from 1959 to 1961. He scored centuries in his first Test against the Australians in 1961, and in his last match against them at the Oval.

He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1961.

At the end of the 1961 season, he retired rather abruptly and prematurely from first-class cricket to go into the public relations business.

In later years, he was Chairman of Surrey (1974–78) and an influential figure at Lord's. He also served as Chairman of the TCCB, and as an ICC match referee.
There is a conference room named after him in Whitgift School.
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(Alchetron)
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Donald McGill  and his saucy seaside postcards

28/1/2022

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On This Day 28 January 1875 Donald McGill was born. He lived in flat 7 at 36 Christchurch Road and is buried at Streatham Park cemetery

Donald Fraser Gould McGill (28 January 1875 – 13 October 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns.

The cards feature an array of attractive young women, fat old ladies, drunken middle aged men, honeymoon couples, and vicars. He has been called 'the king of the saucy postcard', and his work is collected and appreciated for his artistic skill, its power of social observation and earthy sense of humour. Even at the height of his fame he only earned three guineas a design, but today his original artwork can fetch thousands of pounds.
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The Streatham Society booklet: Donald McGill's Comic Postcards and the Streatham Connection by Judy Harris is available from our web site https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/people.html
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#ThrowbackThursday Bacon's 1900 Map

27/1/2022

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Who loves an old map? #ThrowbackThursday for this week and a Bacon's 1900 Map of #streatham #Furzedown #Balham #Tooting #TulseHill Thanks
@robinatonebee #Oldmaps #Victorianmap #LocalHistory
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Hill House bell

27/1/2022

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On This Day 27th January 1922 an article appeared by Mr. Baldwin in the Streatham News

The Bell was discovered when Hill House was demolished in 1922. It weighs nearly half a hundredweight, and was secreted under a wooden staircase on an outside wall near the Dutch garden of the house. Mr. Baldwin stated the "The bell probably came from the Old Well House when the water dried up , and was preserved as a relic"
(Lambeth Archives)
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*This bell was bought by Mr Spiller of 50 Streatham Common North and we do not know its whereabouts now.. This bell was found at the Hill House and is often confused with another bell which hung at the Well House.,which is in the Geffrye museum*
*(John Brown, Streatham Society)*
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John McCormack

26/1/2022

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Norwood News On This Day 26 January 1940 Count John McCormack at the Streatham Hill Theatre
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Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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