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 This appeared in the Norwood News On This Day 26th April 1935
Ships Ahoy on Streatham Common and Cricket on Tooting Bec Common. (Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD)
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 Arthur Rigby (Arthur Turner) died On This Day 25 April 1971) Actor and writer who lived at 65 Drewstead Road. He was best known for playing Sgt Flint on the TV series Dixon of Dock Green appearing in 253 episodes from 1955 to 1965. He also appeared with Dixon 's star Jack Warner in the 1949 film The Blue Lamp which was also the film in which the character of PC George Dixon was created. As a writer, Rigby co-wrote the book (with Stanley Lupino), for the musical play So This is Love, which ran for 321 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre His father William Septimus Turner (aka Arthur Rigby snr) who lived at 81 Sternhold Road was the grandfather of actor William Franklyn   Mike Selvey (born Michael Walter William Selvey, On This Day 25 April 1948, Chiswick) is an English former Test and county cricketer, and now a cricket writer and commentator. Selvey played in three Tests for England between 1976 and 1977. His county cricket commitments included service to Surrey, Middlesex and Glamorgan.
Selvey was educated at Honeywell Primary School and Battersea Grammar in Streatham  Edward Guy Dawber died On This Day 24th April 1938 Sir Edward Guy Dawber, RA (King's Lynn, 3 August 1861 – London, 24 April 1938) was an English architect working in the late Arts and Crafts style, whose work is particularly associated with the Cotswolds. He trained in the practice of Sir Ernest George (Streatham resident) and Harold Peto who togther designed a number of buildings in Streatham. He was the architect of the magnificent houses in Streatham Common North which appeared in the Building news in 1893 Images ©National Portrait Gallery by Fred Roe and Archiseek   Private A.E. Powell (top right) of 79 Salford Road in Streatham, held as a prisoner of war by the Germans in Stalag VII B,E.199. From South London Press, On This Day 24th April 1942.
This appeared in the papers On This Day 22 April 1980. The infamous Cynthia Payne of Ambleside Ave22/4/2022  Hubert Lee Holmes of St. Winifred's, London Road, Norbury died On This Day 22 April 1919. He attended Streatham School and Dulwich College Hubert was the son of Percy Holmes, a retired Major-General in the Indian Army, and his wife, Evalina. He joined the College from Streatham School at the start of 1897 and was joined at Dulwich a year later by his younger brother, Guy. Hubert was a pupil for three years, leaving at the end of 1899, whilst a member of the Army Class, in order to attend the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. He passed out in the summer of 1901 to take up a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery, being promoted to Lieutenant in 1904. Five years later he followed the career path of his father by transferring to the Indian Army, and a year after that, in July 1910, was promoted to Captain. After the outbreak of war Hubert and his regiment were sent to Mesopotamia, but shortly afterwards he was badly injured and invalided back to India. He was to remain in India for the rest of the war, mostly engaged in the business of recruiting, and in the summer of 1916 was promoted once more, to Major. In April 1919 he returned to England on leave, but was already seriously ill, and passed away a week after his arrival from the combined effects of pneumonia and influenza, being buried alongside his father in the churchyard of St. Luke’s in Whyteleafe. His younger brother, Guy, was killed the same month, in a motor accident in Brighton. (Dulwich College)   George Barnes died On This Day 21 April 1940. A former Streatham resident George Nicoll Barnes CH (2 January 1859 – 21 April 1940) was a British Labour politician and a Leader of the Labour Party (1910–1911) Photos ©National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/.../mp00262/george-nicoll-barnes   |
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