- People continued to be knocked down in the High Road with increasing frequency.
- Cricket and bowls followed Football and Hockey.
- Chamber of Commerce and Ratapayers' Assoc. steadily active but nothing epoch-making.
- First Wandsworth Mayor from Streatham.
- A new station for Mitcham Lane was mooted.
- Articles in Historic Streatham by GWC Green
- Death of Harry Fairbairn captain of Belmont Bowls Club.
- Rail Stikes.
- Protest Hillside allotments were being turned-into tennis courts
- Her Royal Highness Princess Helen Victoria visited Agnes Parr Nursing home.
- Remodelling of Magdalen Hospital at a cost of £7k
- 10mph speed limit in Streatham and Tooting Bec.
- Usual ceremony at the War Memorial for Armistice Day.
- New School in Furzedown for 400 pupils.
- Plans for St Leonard's Church to buy the Town Hall.
- Second meeting of the Art Society.
"A 1924 retrospect- what happened in Streatham in 1924" the Streatham News On This Day 2 January 1925
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AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
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