This article appeared in the Illustrated London News 31 May 1884. "Consulting the Oracle" by JW Waterhouse purchased by Sir Henry Tate and presented by Sir Henry Tate to the Tate Gallery 1894

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Beatrice Cave-Brown- Cave was born On This Day 30th May 1874. The family lived at the "Burnage" Streatham Common North

Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave was educated at home and was blessed with siblings around her who shared her passion for mathematics. She would eventually go up to Girton in 1895 and come away in 1899, having been placedin the Third Class in Part II of the Mathematics Tripos, perhaps, with hindsight, a rather modest indication of her mathematical potential.

She immediately took one of the few options open to female mathematicians and became a teacher at Clapham High School, but it would be an opening at UCL just before war began that would launch Cave-Browne-Cave’s career in mathematics.

Her sister Frances was employed as a mathematics lecturer at Girton, but had established a concurrent working relationship with Karl Pearson in London and so likely played somepart in Beatrice’s appointment. Beatrice’s initial work was statistical in nature but, as the War intensified and much to Pearson’s chagrin, she took an opportunity to earn more money by working at the Admiralty on aircraft tail loading analysis and the study of aircraft oscillations.
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Source: Open University The impact of the women of the Technical Section of the Admiralty Air Department on the structural integrity of aircraft during

​John Desmond Rayner was born On This Day 30 May 1924. He was the Rabbi at the South London Synagogue in Prentis Road Streatham

Rabbi and liturgist born Hans Sigismund Rahmer, in Berlin, Germany, on 30 May 1924, the only son and younger child of Ferdinand Josef Adolf Rahmer (1887–1942?), chief French correspondent at Deutsche Bank, and his wife, Charlotte, née Landshut (1897–1942?).

Rayner was ordained into the Liberal Jewish ministry by Rabbi Israel Mattuck in June 1953, and served the South London Liberal Synagogue in Streatham as their first full-time paid minister until 1957, when he received the 'call', as he described it, to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John's Wood, to be associate minister to Rabbi Leslie Edgar.

The south London years were happy times. On 19 June 1955 he married Jane Priscilla Heilbronn (b. 1931), a secretary, and daughter of Lionel Heilbronn, manufacturer's agent, and his wife, Pauline; they had two sons and one daughter. In the early years of their marriage they lived penuriously—the salary was minuscule—in Upper Norwood, and made many friends. Rayner was particularly remembered in the congregation not only for his brilliant sermons and his unfailing devotion to pastoral care, but for his car, which, due to his lack of money, was an old, failing Austin Seven named Gomer after the prophet Hosea's wife, who had been unfaithful but whom he loved just the same. The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, with its place at the heart of the Liberal Jewish movement at the time, suited John Rayner perfectly.
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(Baroness Julia Neuberger)

​Entertainer Ben Warriss was born in Sheffield On This Day 29 May 1909. He is buried at Streatham Park cemetery
Ben Warriss was one of the great names of British comedy. He debuted in London in 1930 before teaming up with his cousin Jimmy Jewel. Jewel and Warriss became household names, touring as one of Britain’s finest double acts.
By 1966, the two had played 7 Royal Variety Performances, and 12 summer seasons in Blackpool. Jewel and Warriss also had asuccessful radio series, "Up The Pole," which ran from 1947 to 1952, and in 1950 made a film based on the series. In his later years, Ben Warriss continued solo in music hall and pantomime.
The grave can be found in the section behind Will Hay's grave.

Louise Michel was born On This Day 29 May 1830

A teacher and important figure in the Paris Commune. Following her penal transportation to New Caledonia she embraced anarchism.
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Lived at a number of locations in south London including 53 Dahomey Road Streatham.

On This Day 28th May 1904 George Beck was born

George Andrew (Augustus) Beck (1904–1978), Roman Catholic archbishop of Liverpool, was born on 28 May 1904 in Streatham, the second son of Fleet Street journalist Patrick Beck and his Irish wife, Louisa O'Keefe.
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The family lived at 52 Gelncairn Road Streatham and George was educated at Clapham College and later at the Assumptionist College of St Michael at Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
(George Andrew Beck 1904–1978 by Elliott & Fry, 1955
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​Gunner Henry Bailey a builder from 15 Woodmansterne Road was killed 27 May 1943. Captured in Singapore he was a Prisoner of War. Son of Henry Alfred and Jessie Louisa Bailey of Streatham

155th (The Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regt. Royal Artillery.
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Originally interred in Wampo Cemetery (Greve 13), reinterred in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery on 17th or 19th March 1946.

This photograph was taken On This Day 27th May 1940.
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Group photograph of the Streatham Depot staff, Central Hospital Supply Service.