The acclaimed architect Sir George Gilbert Scott died On This Day 27th March 1878. The architect for Immanuel and St Andrew CE School which was opened in 1861
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William Brumfitt Storr the founder of auctioneers Debenham and Storr died On This Day 26 March 1865
Lived at 8 Streatham Hill and is burried at West Norwood Cemetery (grave 9060 square 50) Image King Street, Covent Garden, with a view of Debenham and Storr Auctioneers by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd Norwood News On This Day 26 March 1954
The 10 millionth visitor to the Streatham Locarno. Some interesting prizes Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. Today, 26 March is the death anniversary of 3 individuals with local connections
The opera singer Anne Howard 90 Knolly's Road who died On This Day 26 March 2014 The composer Madeleine Dring 44 Mount Ephraim Road and other nearby streets who died On This Day 26 March 1977 The writer Raymond Chandler 35 Mount Nod Road who died On This Day 26th March 1959 Billy Joseph Mayerl died On This Day 25th March 1959.
Billy Mayerl's orchestra performed at the opening of The Locarno Dance Hall in Streatham on 1 October 1929 English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees, including his best known composition, Marigold (1927). He also ran the successful School of Syncopation for whose members he published hundreds of his own arrangements of popular songs. More.. https://www.last.fm/music/Billy+Mayerl/+wiki Robert Hale was born on March 25, 1874 in Devon, England. He was an actor, known for What Happened to Harkness? (1934), Where Is This Lady? (1932) and It's Love Again(1936). He was married to Belle Reynolds (IMDb)
He was the father of actors Sonnie and Binnie Hale and lived at 53 Drewstead Rd Image ©National Portrait Gallery ( Creative Commons License) by Bassano Ltd #ThrowbackThurday and a contemporary map of the Tooting Commons with areas of historic significance added by Graham Gower of the Streatham Society
In our series of Heritage trails The Tooting Commons by Graham Gower is available at a bargain price of £3 incl. UK pp https://streathamsociety.org.uk/heritage-trails.html Click Daphne Margaret Sybil Désirée Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth died On This Day 24th March 2010. She attended Rosa Bassett School in Streatham
Intelligence officer and college head, was born at Mayfield, Vale Road, Claygate, Surrey, the first child of John Alexander Park (1876–1952) and his wife, Doreen Gynneth, née Cresswell-George (1899–1982). In 1932 Daphne was shipped off to London, aged eleven, to live with a great-aunt. Owing to the Second World War she was twenty-six before she saw her mother again. She thrived at the Rosa Bassett School, an experimental school in Streatham, which she later regarded as a foundational influence in her life. In 1940 the offer of a place at Somerville College, Oxford, to read modern languages depended on Park winning a scholarship from Surrey county council. Their offer was conditional on her undertaking to teach on graduation. She turned this down: she was already determined to become a diplomat. They gave her the scholarship anyway. Park joined the Secret Intelligence Service in July 1948. After a short posting to the UK delegation to NATO in Paris and a Russian course in Cambridge she was posted in 1954 to the embassy in Moscow with the cover of second secretary in chancery Park retired in 1979 and the following year became the principal of her old college at Oxford, Somerville, where she remained until 1989. Somerville also provided Park with opportunity for wider forms of public service. Apart from her work as pro-vice-chancellor at Oxford (1985–9), she became a member of the council for Voluntary Service Overseas (1981–4) and of the board of the British Library (1983–9), and a governor of the BBC (1982–7). She chaired the legal aid advisory committee to the Lord Chancellor (1985–91), was a member of the royal commission on historical monuments (1989–94), and made a number of other pro bono commitments. She was made a life peer, as Baroness Park of Monmouth, in the 1990 new year's honours list. (Mark Allen) Image Rob Judges, Guardianhere to edit. On This Day 23rd March 1918 Victor George Shrapnel was killed on duty with the "A" Coy 8th Batallion East Surrey Regiment
Lived at 27 Wavertree Road and educated at Wilson's Grammar and Magdalen College Oxford He was a descendant of Lt General Shrapnel, the inventor of the shell which bears its name |
AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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