This photo appeared in the Norwood News On This Day 26th April 1935 - Lower pond Streatham Common25/4/2021
0 Comments
 On This Day 25 April 1872 CB (Charles Burgess) Fry was born in Croydon. The family lived at 24 Montrell Road, Streatham and CB Fry played for Streatham Cricket Club and Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire A polymath - an outstanding sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic teacher (at Charterhouse) and writer. Attended Repton School and Wadham College Oxford He represented England at Football and Cricket and played in an FA Cup final. He also held the world record for the long jump He also made appearances for Blackheath and the Barbarians in Rugby His brother Walter Burgess Fry attended Dulwich College and the family address given as 24 Montrell Road, Streatham Hill. Walter studied medicine at St Thomas' and died during WW1 from illness. Stephen Fry the comedian claims to be a relative Image 1 THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Charles Burgess Fry, sportsman, journalist, author and scholar, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.   This appeared in The Stage 25th April 1991
Streatham's Cynthia Payne and Screaming Lord Sutch Image © The Stage Media Company Limited  Another Streatham business falls victim to the economic fall-out from the pandemic Carpet Right on the site of the Golden Domes cinema vacant Site has been a supermarket, Leather store, MFI- what next? Article below by John Brown   On This Day 24th April 2007 the Post office in the High Road junction with Woodbourne Ave closed Built in 1910 previously a telephone exchange, a fine example of neo-Georgian building of red brick with stone dressings. The windows facing the High Road have stone surrounds and pronounced keystones, and there is also a gable. It is within the Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill Conservation Area. Today the ground floor is a branch of Barclays Bank   This appeared in The Graphic 23 April 1910- photos by Borup of Streatham.
'Orpheus," The Foundation of Modern Opera Image © Illustrated London News Group. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.  Laurence was born on November 5th 1894 in Oregon, USA, the son of English artist Charles Chidson and his wife Norah, and spent the first several years of his life in the States. By 1902 the family was back in England, and Laurence spent three years at school in Streatham before taking a choral scholarship at Westminster Abbey Choir School in 1905, then subsequently in 1910 coming to Dulwich. Whilst at the College he became a senior prefect and was a member of the cricket 1st XI in his final year; he earned a place at St. John’s College, Cambridge, upon leaving. As this was the summer of 1914 however Laurence forewent the scholarship in order to volunteer, at first as a private in the East Surreys. Within a month however he had been given a commission in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, and by January of 1915 had already been promoted to Lieutenant. The regiment went over to France in July 1915, and went on to see significant service on the Somme the next summer. On November 14th 1916 he was awarded the M.C. for “conspicuous gallantry” in command during the Battle of Ancre, and the following month was promoted to Captain. “Chidders”, as he was known, was leading an attack near Arras on April 23rd 1917 when he was hit in the head by a machine gun bullet, killing him instantaneously. (Dulwich College)  This appeared in The Graphic On This Day 22 April 1916. The opening of the Streatham Red Cross Hospital.
(Photo by Borup of Streatham) Image © Illustrated London News Group. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.  The Actor George Cole was born On This Day 22 April 1925 John Brown of the Society has recently written about George Cole's Streatham Connections As a young teenage actor he appeared in the production playing the role an evacuee, Ronald Mittsby. This appear-ance saw him perform with that great British comic actor, Alistair Sim, with whom he was to establish a life-long friendship and when Cole’s family evacuated from Streatham in the war Sim became George’s guardian and Cole stayed with him at his home at Henley. Today Cole is probably best remembered for his long-running role as Arthur Daley in the popular TV series Minder which ran for over 15 years on ITV. George was born on 22nd April 1925 at 19 Defoe Road, Tooting, (now no. 968 Garratt Lane), a nursing-cum- maternity home run by Lucy Blaber, a mid- wife. He spent his ear- ly years at his family home close by at 88a Coverton Road in Tooting and attended Defoe Road Infants School before moving to a council house at 30 Cartmel Gardens in Morden. From childhood he always had a flair for acting and so it was in 1939, as a young juvenile actor, he responded to an advert for a boy understudy for the famous musical White Horse Inn and so began a long and successful career on stage screen and television. It was in the early years of his career as a young actor that he lived in Streatham, residing for three years in a flat above George Reeves Estate Agents’ shop at 267 Mitcham Lane.  |
