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 On This Day 22 October 1943 this article appeared in the Norwood News Charlie Kunz appearing at the Streatham Hill Theatre in a variety show presented by Bernard Delfont 
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 On This Day 21 October 1973 Sir Alan John Cobham died Alan Cobham is recorded living at 59 Baldry Gardens Streatham in 1911 and 1921 He attended Wilson's school and was an aviation pioneer who as a child built giant kites which he flew on Streatham Common. A pilot and instructor in the RAF. He worked for de Havilland where he flew wealthy clients all over Europe after working for an aerial photography company. He was tasked with researching air routes to India. His venture flying to India and back is on the Pathe news clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekvcAQfjvqo Family picture © National Portrait Gallery, London and Sir Frank Cobham portrait Frank Salisbury ©National Portrait Gallery    Charles Carpmael died On This Day 21 October 1894. He lived at 7 Streatham Hill. Meteorologist and astronomer b. 19 Sept. 1846 in Streatham, , eighth son of William Carpmael, a well-known patent agent, and Sarah Pitt; m. 22 June 1876 Julia McKenzie in Toronto, and they had one son and one daughter; d. 21 Oct. 1894 in Hastings, England. Charles Carpmael received his elementary education at the Clapham Grammar School under Charles Pritchard, later Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford. He earned a mathematics scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1865, and he was sixth wrangler at graduation in 1869. Elected a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1870, that same year he joined a British expedition to Spain, where he took spectroscopic observations of the corona during an eclipse of the sun. Buried at West Norwood Cemetery   Mark King was born On This Day 20 October 1958 (on the IoW). He is a musician and former resident of the "Spinney", Streatham
Lead singer and bassist of the band Level 42. King is known for his slap style of playing the bass guitar, with MusicRadar describing him as "the guy who put the slap in pop during the 80s". King received a BASCA Gold Badge Award in October 2015 in recognition of his contribution to British music. He won the "Outer Limits" award at the 2017 Progressive Music Awards. He is the elder brother of fellow Level 42 member Nathan King and Boon Gould, also of Level 42, lived in Streatham, Glenendon Road  On 19 & 20 October 1775 the Thrale party (of Streatham Park) were admitted to the Court of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. This is their account 19 Octr 1775 The Morning was spent in Dressing, the Noon in going to Court, and the Evening was got rid of at the Play. We saw the young Princess Elizabeth dine first—her Attendant was only Madam de Guemené, who took her Plate from her to give it the page &c., but another Gentleman carved for Elizabeth is youngest Sister to the King, about twelve Years old or so, not handsome but passable, if She not so pinched in her Stays as makes her look pale & uneasy to herself. All Children through this Nation I perceive are thus squeezed and tortured during their early Years, and the Deformity they exhibit at maturity repays the stupid Parents for their Pains. The Princess herself suffers in Compliance to her Country's Taste. (David Thrale)   This appeared in the Sketch on 18th October 1939
Constance Cummings playing the title role in Bernard Shaw's Sant Joan in the Old Vic performance at the Streatham Hill Theatre in 1939 She admitted: "I didn't know how to read the verses. That was a sloppy thing. I should have had more sense." Ronald Bergan writes: In 1930, the 20-year-old Cummings was brought to Hollywood by Sam Goldwyn to co-star with Ronald Colman in The Devil to Pay, but was replaced at the last minute by 17-year-old Loretta Young. However, her disappointment was allayed when Columbia Pictures snapped her up, gave her a contract and cast her as prison warden Walter Huston's naive daughter in Howard Hawks's The Criminal Code the following year. Columbia was so impressed by this debut that they starred Cummings in 10 films in two years, even though most were modest productions. The exception was Frank Capra's New Deal fantasy, American Madness (1932) (Source: Guardian obituary and The Sketch 18 October 1939 Image © Illustrated London News Group)  On This Day 18th October 1903 Bruce McFarlane was born in Streatham (Kenneth) Bruce McFarlane (1903–1966), historian, was born on 18 October 1903 at 191 Amesbury Avenue, Streatham, the only child of Andrew McFarlane OBE, a civil servant in the Admiralty A medieval historian, McFarlane opened up the study of 15th–century England through his use both of new types of sources and by moving beyond the conventional constitutional narrative to a more complex analytical approach. He was the playwright, Alan Bennett's Don at Oxford. Alan bennet remembers McFarlane in https://www.lrb.co.uk/.../k.b.-mcfarlane-is-remembered-by... Image of McFarlane © John Gibbons Studios  |
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