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Crazy gang- Glyn Hodges

30/4/2021

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On This Day 30 April 1963 Glyn Peter Hodges was born

A Welsh footballer and manager who was born and raised in Streatham

During his playing career he played for Wimbledon, Newcastle United, Watford, Crystal Palace, Sheffield United, Derby County, Hull City, Nottingham Forest and Scarborough. He also played 18 times for the Welsh national side, scoring twice.
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Hodges started his playing career with Wimbledon and made more than 200 appearances for the Crazy Gang during seven years at the club
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John Edward Raphael

30/4/2021

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John Raphael was born On This Day 30 April 1882. He lived at 52 Gleneagle Road

John Edward Raphael (30 April 1882 – 11 June 1917) was a Belgian-born sportsman who was capped nine times for England at rugby union and played first-class cricket with Surrey.

He was a Barrister by profession and a Liberal politician.

Raphael was Jewish and the son of multi-millionaire financier Albert Raphael, who was part of a banking dynasty that in the 1920s rivalled the Rothschild family John Raphael was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and St John's College, Oxford.
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In January 2021, one of the eight pastoral Houses at Merchant Taylors' was re-named in his honour.
In World War I Raphael served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a Lieutenant and died of wounds in 1917 at the Battle of Messines, while fighting in the country of his birth.
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Our #ThrowbackThursday takes us back to 1860 and an Ordnance survey map of Lower Streatham

29/4/2021

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John "Charger" Surridge- Hells Angel Funeral at Streatham Park Cemetery

29/4/2021

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Mourners at the funeral of John 'Charger' Surridge in Streatham Park Cemetery. Charger was one of the first British members of the Hells Angels Club, joining in the early 1970s. 
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On This Day 29th April 2010, hundreds of bikers from across Europe processed through central London to join his family and friends at the funeral service in Streatham.Digital image by kind permission of Enzo Peccinotti. Commercial reproduction not permitted without the prior consent of photographer - please contact Lambeth
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Streatham plane crash On This Day 29 April 1917

29/4/2021

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Frank Nelham Clark's plane crashed in Leigham Court Road, Streatham on 29th April 1917 and he was killed.

He clipped some trees and the chimney of his parents house as he was flying low trying to find somewhere to land. The family lived at the "Knowle" which had a 1 acre garden so it was possible he was trying to land in the garden

He was born in Streatham (family lived at "Guestling", Thornlaw Road,) and he is buried at West Norwood Cemetery in a CWGC plot.

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Following from Dulwich College
Frank started at Dulwich Prep in 1906, and was a student there until the end of 1910, starting at the College in January of 1911, going on to become a member of the Gymnastic VI in both 1913 & 14, as well as a highly regarded swimmer – a skill he would later use on two separate occasions to save fellow cadets from drowning. 
He left in the summer of 1914 and soon after the outbreak of War joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, eventually being not only promoted to the rank of Lance-Corporal, but also a fully qualified instructor. 
In September 1916, upon taking his commission, he requested to join the Royal Flying Corps in order to train as a pilot. During his training he acquired the nickname ‘Bubbles’ as a result of “his youth, his clear outlook on life & his cheery spirits”.
On April 26th 1917 he fully qualified, earning his ‘wings’, and was due to go across to France to join No. 56 Squadron, under Major Blomfield. Unfortunately however a mere 3 days after fully qualifying, whilst flying across London to Wallington his aeroplane struck a tree and a chimney stack before crashing and bursting into flames.
Tragically the accident had taken place mere yards from his home, and his parents were amongst the first on the scene, with his father being the one to pull him from the burning wreckage of his plane; despite their best efforts his injuries were so severe that he passed away that evening in a nearby nursing home. He was the second of four Clark brothers to attend the College, of whom he was the only one to fall in service.
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John Southward

28/4/2021

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On This Day 28 April 1840 the painter and writer John Southward was born, the son of Jackson Southward, printer, of Liverpool. He is recorded living at 153 Gleneagle Road in 1901

Southward became recognized as the leading authority on the history and processes of printing. His Dictionary of Typography and its Accessory Arts, after being issued as monthly supplements to the Printers' Register, was published as a book in 1872

Southward also published Authorship and Publication, a technical guide for authors, in 1881, and Artistic Printing: a Supplement to Practical Printing
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Southward was active in philanthropic work and in 1888 founded, and for a short time edited, a monthly paper called Charity. During his later years he lived at Streatham, and died at St Thomas's Hospital, London, after an operation, on 9 July 1902. He was buried in Norwood cemetery.
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Phil Tate resident band leader at the Locarno

28/4/2021

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Phil Tate was born in Bramley, Yorkshire, On This Day 28th April 1922 and was educated at West Leeds High School.
He developed an early interest in music, taking up the violin at the age of eight.
When the Ilford Palais residency ended, Phil Tate moved to the Locarno in Streatham where he stayed until 1968, at which time he handed the band over to singer Ken Barrie, relinquishing full-time bandleading as he had become part of the Mecca management.
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(Matters of Melody)
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On this Day 27 April 1908 the 1908 Olympics started in London at Shepherds Bush (later called White City)

27/4/2021

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Streatham connections:
1.John James Webster (9 June 1845 – 30 October 1914) a resident at 81 Mount Nod Road who was a Civil Engineer.
He had worldwide reputation for bridge and pier building. He designed Britain's first transporter bridge early in 1900 and built the Shepherds Bush Stadium for the 1908 Olympic Games.
Among other structures he carried out were; Conway Suspension Bridge; Portsmouth bascule bridge; Littlehampton swing bridge and Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge.
His last work was the Warrington Bridge at Bridgefoot which was one of the earliest examples of a reinforced concrete bridge.
He died at home 30 October 1914 and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery
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2. Joe Deakin (6 February 1879 – 30 June 1972) was born in Stoke on Trent and as a young man he lived at Chaucer Road, Herne Hill.
Joe Deakin won a Gold Medal for the 3 Miles team race and lived with his daughter and family at 21 Hitherfield Road, Streatham in his later years
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James Kershaw MP of Manor House

27/4/2021

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On This Day 27th April 1864 James Kershaw MP died at Manor House Streatham

British cotton mill owner and Liberal MP, associated with the Anti-Corn Law League.
He rose from being a clerk for the cotton-spinning company of Lees, Millington & Cullender, of Manchester, to a partner and then head of Kershaw, Lees & Sidebottom, mill owners of Manchester.
He was instrumental in obtaining the municipal franchise of Manchester as a borough in 1838, and was its Mayor between 1842 and 1843, and later became the MP for Stockport from 1847 until his death.
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He died at his home in Streatham, and was buried in West Norwood Cemetery where his ornate Gothic tomb by Alfred Waterhouse (architect of the Natural History Museum, London and Manchester Town Hall) is listed Grade II.

(Image 1 by Samuel Bellin, printed by W. Hatton, published by Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, after Philip Westcott
mezzotint, published 18 June 1852 © National Portrait Gallery -Creative Commons License
Image 2: Illustrated London News 07 May 1864 © Illustrated London News Group)
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The actor Jack Douglas was born on this day 26 April 1927

26/4/2021

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The actor Jack Douglas was born on this day 26 April 1927

He was born Jack Roberton in Newcastle upon Tyne. Part of his childhood was spent in Streatham and he attended St Joseph's college, Beulah Hil.

His stage successes, spread over many years, included tours of Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus and Michael Frayn's Make and Break (1980). On TV, he was in the film of The Shillingbury Blowers, which became the series The Shillingbury Tales and was followed by a spin-off, Cluffy, in which he co-starred with Bernard Cribbins. He also appeared in the 1983 film The Boys in Blue, in which village policemen foiled international art thieves.
(Source: The Guardian 19 December 2008)
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