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Wing Commander Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave

11/1/2021

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On This Day 11 January 1885 Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave was born
Wing Commander Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave (1885-1969), 21 Streatham Common North, The "Burnage"

1885 January 11th. Born the son of Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave and his wife Blanche Matilda Mary Ann Milton
1901-13 Dulwich College. Engr. Officer, R.N.
1913 Transferred to Naval Wing R.N.A.S. and to R.A.F. on formation.
1914-20 Airship research, Admiralty and Air Ministry
1918 Married to Marjorie Gwynne Wright
1920 Presented a paper at the British Association meeting on airships
1931-50 Professor of Engineering at Southampton University
1969 Married(2) to Elsie May Ricks
1969 November 26th. Died
  • Member, Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and Aeronautical Research Committee; retired 1931.
  • Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society Member of Council, I.Mech.E.
  • Formerly Lecturer on Airships, Imperial College of Sc. Chairman, Technical Committee, Noise Abatement League.
  • Author of lectures and papers to the I.Mech.E Royal Aeronautical Soc., I.Automobile E.. the Airship Section of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" on Airships, C.I. Engines and Cooling, Silencers and other noise reduction problems, Air Raid Precautions.
(Grace's Guide)
Images- ©National portrait Gallery used under the Creative Common License

1970 Obituary 
Wing-Commander Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave, CBE, RAF (Fellow), of Basset, Southampton, died recently aged 84.
Wing-Cdr Cave-Browne-Cave received his early training in the Royal Navy, and served as an engineer officer until 1913. In that year he was seconded to the Royal Naval Air Service, later absorbed into the Royal Air Force, and for the next eighteen years devoted himself to the design, construction and operation of aircraft.
He became Professor of Engineering at University College, Southampton in 1931, and the school of engineering grew steadily under his direction. He retired from the post in 1950.
A first-class innovator, he developed a supersonic wind tunnel driven by steam which cost much less than the usual type using compressed air. He also developed a new system of heating and ventilating motor buses, using warm air from behind the radiator.
He contributed a great deal to Institution life, serving on Council and as Chairman of the Southern Branch.
A kind and generous man, Wing-Cdr Cave-Browne-Cave will be deeply missed by his many friends and colleagues. His death is a great loss to this Institution.
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49 route extension to the "fresh districts of Streatham, Balham and Tooting

10/1/2021

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On This Day 10 January 1913 this notice of the number 49 extension to Streatham was advertised in the Pall Mall Gazette
London and General Omnibus Co Ltd
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On the 10th January 1930 this advert appeared in the Norwood News Fay Compton ( Image ©National Portrait Gallery) in Virtue for Sale.

10/1/2021

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100 years ago in January 1921 South London Motors was founded at 516-522 Streatham High Road (John Brown)

10/1/2021

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In 1948 Sir Richard Attenborough trained in the workshops for his role as a car mechanic in the film "London Belongs to me"
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Actor Eric Berry of Prentis Road

9/1/2021

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On This Day 9th January 1913 Eric Berry was born

Eric George William Berry (9 January 1913 – 2 September 1993) was a British stage and film actor
He lived at 36 Prentis Road Streatham with his wife Anna in the 1950's

Eric Berry was born in London on 9 January 1913 to parents Frederick William Berry and Anna Louisa Danielson. He attended the City of London School and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Berry was briefly married to actress Constance Carpenter. He died of cancer on 2 September 1993 in Laguna Beach, California
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Eric Berry made his first stage appearance in April 1931 in a production of Spilt Milk at what was then known as the Everyman Theatre, Hampstead. He made his West End theatre debut the following year in a production of The Cathedral at what is now the Noël Coward Theatre, then referred to as the New Theatre. Berry first appeared on Broadway in September 1954 as Percival Browne in a production of The Boy Friend at the Royale Theatre, a production which set a record for the longest-running Broadway production of a British musical. In 1972, Pippin opened at the Imperial Theatre starring Eric Berry as Charles, a part he would perform for the show's six-year Broadway run. Berry performed in a number of other productions on Broadway, including The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1958, The Great God Brown in 1959, and Gideon in 1961
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Evening Mail 12 January 1916
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Atcombe sale 10 April 1897in South London press
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Shipowner Thomas Robson Miller of"Atcombe"

8/1/2021

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Thomas Robson Miller died On This Day 9th January 1916 at Atcombe in Woodfield Avenue

A shipowner through the firm of Chapman & Miller and for 20 years secretary of the North of England Steamship Club based in Newcastle. Familiar with the cultures of both shipping and insurance, Miller came to London in 1886 
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The firm Thomas Miller still exists today has a rich heritage reaching back over 130 years. It all began in 1885 when our founder, the ship owner Thomas Robson Miller, took over the management of the United Kingdom Steam Ship Protection Association (now known as the UK P&I Club). The business then grew through the decade, bringing management expertise to mutual businesses, helping to launch new mutual Clubs an developing a global network to service clients all over the world.
(Thomas Miller)
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80 years ago today, 8th January 1941 (The Sketch) Lois Davis as Jill, the principal girl in Prince Littler's Mother Goose at the Streatham Hill Theatre

7/1/2021

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Thriller and Occult author- Dennis Wheatley

7/1/2021

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On This Day 8th January 1897 the writer Dennis Wheatley was born. The family lived at a number of locations in Streatham
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Dennis Yeats Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories.

He was born in Brixton, the elder child and only son of Albert David Wheatley (d. 1927), wine merchant, and his wife, Florence Elizabeth Harriet (b. 1874). After an unhappy year at Dulwich College he became a cadet in HMS Worcester. At seventeen, after a year learning something of the wine trade in Germany, he worked in his father's shop in the West End of London.

The family lived at "Wootton Lodge" 1904-1910 and with his father's unlucky speculations on the Stock Exchange, he had to sell Wootton Lodge and move into a much smaller home at 1 Becmead Avenue where they lived 1910-13 and then Clinton House, 1 Palace Road.
Image of Dennis Wheatley ©National Portrait Gallery
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Streatham Park Estate

7/1/2021

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Our #ThrowbackThursday takes us back to 1907 and the entrance to "Streatham Park" Estate (now bisected by railway line) and mansion home of the Thrale family. Dr Johnson spent the middle of the week at house-his final visit to Streatham in 1782
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High Elms- Streatham Common- Nasmyth

7/1/2021

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On This Day 7 January 1787 the Scottish Landscape painter Patrick Nasmyth was born. He painted High Elms by Streatham Common

The eldest son to painter Alexander Nasmyth and one of eleven children of whom at least 8 were gifted artists.

His sisters Jane, Barbara, Elizabeth Anne and Charlotte were all painters who assisted their father

(J C B Cooksey)
John Brown writes:
"Although High Elms was a large house, it was well screened from the highway by tall trees and shrubs and I have never seen a full image of the building. However, the aforementioned sketch of the bottom of the Common does show a part of the building opposite the pond, and a painting made in 1827 from the top of Streatham Common shows the roof of the property. The house was demolished in the 1880s and the site is now occupied by a handsome terrace of late Victori- an shops called Bank Parade".
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