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Lionel Davidson

31/3/2023

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On This Day 31 March 1922 Lionel Davidson, novelist, was born at 205 Hessle Road, Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The family moved to Streatham - 11 Streatham Close.

The ninth child of Avram Chaim (Hyman) Davidovitz (1866–1925), draper and tailor, and his wife, Hannah (Annie), née Salit(1878–1958), Jewish immigrants from, respectively, Poland and Vilnius in Lithuania.

After his father's death the family moved to Streatham and in 1929 the family name was changed to Davidson. Lionel attended school in Tooting

In 1950 Davidson became the fiction editor for John Bull, publishing the short fiction of many best-selling writers including Graham Greene, Nevil Shute, and Agatha Christie. He continued to write his own short stories and radio scripts for the BBC

The Night of Wenceslas quickly sold for a film but when the film did appear in 1964, as Hot Enough for June (American title Agent 83/4), it had been transformed into a romantic comedy vehicle for Dirk Bogarde. The Rose of Tibet was published in 1962 and Run for Your Life, published in 1965

In total he wrote eight crime and thriller novels.

He is said to have been planning a novel set in Tooting in the 1930s when he died in February 2016.
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(Source:extracts Mike Ripley and Photograph by Yvonne Plaut, Camera Press, London and Russia in Fiction)
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Streatham Parliament at Whist

31/3/2023

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Norwood News On This Day 31 March 1933. Streatham Parliament at whist
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Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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Flag and Heraldic artist Louis John Alfred Loynes

30/3/2023

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The flag and Heraldic artist Louis John Alfred Loynes was born On This Day 30 March 1902 . He lived at 7 Bournevale Road.
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PICTURE WESTERN MAIL IMAGE © REACH PLC. IMAGE CREATED COURTESY OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.IMAGE © REACH PLC. IMAGE CREATED COURTESY OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
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The first marriage at St James' West Streatham

30/3/2023

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The first marriage at St James' West Streatham On This Day 30 March 1907. Francis Ernest Jones and Florence Emily Sedgewick, both from Welham Road
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George Deer MP

29/3/2023

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George Deer OBE was born On This Day 29 March 1890 and lived at 27 Riggindale Road, Streatham
A Trade Union official and MP for Newark. His wife Olive was Chair of the LCC.
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Image by Elliott & Fry 1955 NPG x86983 ©National Portrait Gallery.
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John Major

29/3/2023

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​Happy 80th birthday former PM John Major, born On This Day 29 March 1943 in Carshalton.
He was a member of the Streatham Cricket Club when living locally, although he only played one game
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Colin Cullis and JR Tolkien

28/3/2023

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On This Day 28 March 1892 Colin Cullis was born.

Culls was J R Tolkien's flatmate and friend at Oxford when the War broke out. Tolkien wrote:
‘Not a single man I know is up except Cullis,’ Tolkien lamented at the start of his final year as an Oxford student. It was 1914, war had just broken out, and their friends had left in droves to enlist in the army.

Colin Cullis was born on 28 March 1892 at 27 Christchurch Road Streatham, the youngest of eight children (though he lost two siblings before he turned three). His mother Mary was approaching 40.
His father Thomas, secretary of the Surrey Guild commercial dock company, was ambitious for his sons and sent all three to Dulwich College
(Source John Garth)
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Captain Lionel Louis Leleu

28/3/2023

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Lionel Louis Leleu died 28 March 1933. A resident of 67 Wavertree Road

On 28 March 1933, an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy II passenger aircraft, named City of Liverpool and operated by British airline Imperial Airways, crashed over Belgium. Captain Leleu was the pilot who with 14 others was killed. He is buried at West Norwood cemetery.

It was the deadliest accident in the history of British civil aviation at that time. It has been suggested that this was the first airliner ever lost to sabotage and in the immediate aftermath, suspicion centred on one passenger, Albert Voss, who seemingly jumped from the aircraft before it crashed.
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(Grave Image Find a Grave)
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James Callaghan - Streatham Rugby 1939

27/3/2023

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Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff was born On This Day 27th March 1912. He served as Prime Minister 1976-79.
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He played for Streatham Rugby Football Club. (Photo courtesy Streatham and Croydon Rugby Club)
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Sir George Gilbert Scott

27/3/2023

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​The acclaimed architect Sir George Gilbert Scott died On This Day 27th March 1878. The architect for Immanuel and St Andrew CE School in Streatham which was opened in 1861
Image by John & Charles Watkins albumen print, 1860s
NPG Ax7340 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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