John Mckay the man who topped the bill at the Streatham Hill Theatre and a resident of Prentis Road dies
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This appeared in the Nowood News On This Day 21 April 1961
John Mckay the man who topped the bill at the Streatham Hill Theatre and a resident of Prentis Road dies Pathe news clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqJUE4S_kq8
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Charles Delauney Bravo was a British lawyer who was fatally poisoned with antimony On This Day 21 April 1876 . The case is still sensational, notorious and unresolved. The case is also known as The Charles Bravo Murder and the Murder at the Priory. It was an unsolved crime committed within an elite Victorian household at The Priory, a landmark house in Balham, within the historic parish of Streatham. Leading doctors attended the bedside, including the Streatham-based royal physician Sir William Gull, and all agreed that it was a case of antimony poisoning. The victim took three days to die but gave no indication of the source of the poison during that time. No one was ever charged with the crime. Florence Riccardo whilst living in Furzedown area of Streatham became friendly with a widow, Jane Cannon Cox, the daily governess to the Brookes’ daughter. Florence moved with Jane as her companion to the Priory, a large white, painted, house on Tooting Bec Common off Bedford Hill. After ending her affair with Dr Gully and in an effort to regain her family and respectability Florence married Charles Bravo a young barrister. Unfortunately he turned out to be a fortune hunter and a violent and mean bully. His mysterious death in April 1876 turned out to be murder and Florence, Jane and Dr. Gully were the main suspects in arguably the most mysterious murder of the 19th century. (Florence also lived at 10 Leigham Court Road 1873/74 and Dr. James Gulley lived at 43 Leigham Court Road in 1872. Charles Bravo Florence Bravo Dr James Gully On This Day 20 April 2004 Dame Mary Georgina [Molly] Green died
Assistant mistress at Clapham high school from 1936 to 1938, Streatham Hill and Clapham high school from 1938 to 1940. In 1965, she was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Association. In the year, 1968, when it reported, she became a Dame. The Committee of Inquiry into Nurses' Pay and the Doctors and Dentist Remuneration Review Body (1976-79) followed, along with membership of the Press Council in the same period. For five years she was a governor of the BBC (1968-73). But she remained, until her death, quintessentially a headmistress whose real passion was the optimum organisation of one school. (Source Guardian Obituary 23 April 2004) Image ©National Portrait Gallery- Creative Commons License London to Brighton Stock Exchange Walk passing through Streatham
Artiicle London Daily News On This Day 20 April 1903 LOn This Day 19th April 1836 Charles Mortimer was born
Eldest son of Mr. C. Smith Mortimer of Hollowed and Dorking, by his wife Harriet, daughter of Mr. John Fuller, of Coulsdon and Croydon, and was born in Croydon. The family seat is Wigmore Castle and the family are related to the Royal Family Educated at Rugby and on September 3rd, 1867, he married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr. Beriah Drew, of Streatham. They lived at "Woodfield' in the area of Abbotswood and the Spinney https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/... Charles was Director of Great Western Northern and Eastern and Princetown Railway Company, and Justice of the Peace. The family of .Mortimer is descended from the Mortimers of Wigmore Castle. He was Chairman man of the Female Orphan Asylum at Beddington. He has also rendered commendable philanthropic service as a member of the Committee of the Blind School of St. George's-in-the-Fields, Southwark. He had Actuarial experience as Deputy Chairman of the Union Assurance Company. The names Mortimer and Wigmore are found in a number of locations in Streatham eg Wigmore Lawn Tennis Club in Becmead Avenue On This Day 19th April 1940 Jitterbug Marathon at the Locarno
Fascinating British Movietone clip.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNb2tGM60po Instruction sheet, How to Dance the Jitterbug by Adele England of the Locarno School of Dancing, Streatham, SW London. 1939 available at https://www.prints-online.com/instruction-sheet-dance... Will Hay died On This Day 18th April 1949
William Thomson Hay FRAS (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer who came to notice for his theatrical sketch as a jocular schoolmaster, known as Dr. Muffin. Resident of 45 The Chase,Norbury SW16 and buried at Streatham Park Cemetery The acts in which Hay performed the schoolmaster sketch became known as "The Fourth Form at St. Michael's". Hay toured with the act and appeared in the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa. He famously performed the schoolmaster routine at the 1925 Royal Command Performance before King George V and Queen Mary.[1] From 1934 to 1943, he was a prolific film star in Britain, and was ranked the third highest grossing star at the British Box Office in 1938, behind George Formby and Gracie Fields. On This Day 18th April 1940 Florrie Forde died. Burried at Streatham Park Cemetery
She was one of the greatest stars of the early 20th century music hall. Born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, she was an Australian popular singer and entertainer. She was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia in 1875. At the age of sixteen, she ran away from home to appear on the Sydney music hall stage, adopting the surname of her stepfather. At the age of 21 in 1897, she left for London, and on August Bank Holiday 1897, she made her first appearances in London at three music halls, the South London Palace, the Pavilion and the Oxford, in the course of one evening. She became an immediate star, making the first of her many sound recordings in 1903 and making 700 individual recordings by 1936. She had a powerful stage presence, and specialised in songs that had powerful and memorable choruses in which the audience was encouraged to join. In 1909 she married, and was soon drawing top billing, singing songs such as "Down At The Old Bull And Bush" and "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". She appeared in the very first Royal Command Performance in 1912. During World War I, her most famous songs were some of the best known of the period, including "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag." (Find a Grave) Image ©National Portrait Gallery ( Creative Commons License) Private Thomas Miller Nicholson of 10 Polworth Road Streatham
Thomas was born On This Day April 17th 1891, the only son amongst three children of a Stock Exchange worker, also named Thomas Nicholson, and his wife, Mary Jane. In April 1904, two days before his thirteenth birthday, he joined the College, having previously been at the Prep. His time at Dulwich would last for the next three years, until he left in summer 1907, at which point he was in the Modern Lower Fourth. In 1910 he joined a firm of shipbrokers, McCulloch & Boyd, with whom he was employed for the next six years at the Baltic Exchange. In August 1916, two years after the start of the war, Thomas enlisted for military service, as a member of the Army Service Corps. He subsequently spent several months training in England, at Aldershot and Bulford, before being sent out to Salonica, Greece, that October. Upon his arrival he was attached to the 802nd Company of Mechanical Transport and served with his new unit through that winter and into the following summer. In August 1917 he fell gravely ill with what turned out to be dysentery, ultimately succumbing to the illness on August 17th whilst at a Canadian Hospital in the town of Salonica itself. (Dulwich College) |
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