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On This Day 28 July 1906 the Lido opened on Tooting Bec Common

"Bathing Ponds, Tooting Bec Common, Streatham"

The idea for the lido was initiated by the Rector of St Nicholas, Tooting and Wandsworth borough mayor Rev John Henry Anderson.

Before (1929) and now (2020). The historic 53 Mount Ephraim Lane completely redeveloped by owner, Cellist Chris Gist.

The stunning gardens are being used as a venue for a series of musical events - Secret Garden Concerts in the month of August.
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https://secretgardenconcerts.com

On This Day 26 July 1938 The Lambeth Walk- new dance officially recognised and made in Streatham

The manager of the Locarno Dance Hall at Streatham went to see 'Me and My Girl' and decided that 'The Lambeth Walk' might be turned into a ballroom diversion. Miss England, the chief of his dancing staff, then evolved the knee-slapping, the stamps, the turns and the shout of "Oi". Success was instantaneous at the Locarno and subsequently in the main dance-halls of England and of Scotland (where "Hoch oi" is shouted instead of "Oi").
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Source Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/jul/26/archive-1938-lambeth-walk-dance

Image Streatham's Kate Carney, London's coster queen of the music halls, practising the Lambeth Walk with her daughter Dolly, 5 October 1938. Photograph: JA Hampton/Getty Images

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels.

She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays, many with biblical or historical themes.
Tey lived at her sister's house at 235 Covington Way, Streatham for the last few years of her life, moving from Inverness, her birth place.

She took the name Josephine Tey. Josephine Tey, which combines her mother's name with the surname of an English grandparent from Suffolk was first used in 1937 for Tey's second mystery, A Shilling for Candles. All of her subsequent mystery novels were written as Tey.

Sir John Gielgud stated that she always preferred her plays and that she referred wryly to her novels as her ‘yearly knitting’. However, Gielgud may have taken her remarks too seriously for in October, 1950 in a letter to her publisher, Nico (Nicholas) Davies of the firm Peter Davies Ltd, she stated that she "got more of a kick out of seeing my Josephine Tey novels in the middle of the Times Book Club window than in seeing my name in front of the New Theatre" [where her play Richard of Bordeaux, starring Gielgud, had had its great success].
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Many of her theatre friends, including Dame Edith Evans and Sir John Gielgud, attended the funeral service at Streatham Vale Crematorium on Monday, 18th February, 1952

On This Day 24 July 1965 Boxer Freddie Mills died.
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A light-heavyweight boxer, with European titles, world titles and championships. He had a Boxing club in Streatham and taught boxing at the Youth Club