Harry and Lily Bentham lived iin the area : Woodbourne Ave, Ritherdon, Huron and Veronica Roads. Engineers used the "Greathead shield" to dig the tunnel named after James Greathead who lived in Leigham Crt Rd
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In the week of the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Blackwall tunnel our #ThrowbackThursday takes us back to 1897 and Harry Bentham an engineer engaged in the construction who later was the President of Society of Engineers.
Harry and Lily Bentham lived iin the area : Woodbourne Ave, Ritherdon, Huron and Veronica Roads. Engineers used the "Greathead shield" to dig the tunnel named after James Greathead who lived in Leigham Crt Rd
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On This Day 25 May 1756 Sir Dudley Ryder died.
Lived at "Wood Lodge" Streatham. Lord Chief Justice of the King's bench Memorial to Sir Dudley Ryder, St Wulfram's church Rt Hon. Sir Dudley Ryder was Solicitor General, Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Kings Bench 1754. He became Baron of Harrowby, but he died the following day, so the honour was passed to his son. He married Anne Newnham in 1733, and had just one son, Nathaniel. He died in 1756 aged 65. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3216281 Second Image Photo © J.Hannan-Briggs (cc-by-sa/2.0) reused under the Creative Commons License Desmond Adolphus Dacres (Desmond Dekker), singer and songwriter, died On This Day 25th May 2006. He is buried at Streatham Park Cemetery.
Best known for his hit The Israelites (Photo Museum of Croydon) On This Day 24 May 1961 Major Alfred James Terence Fleming-Sandes VC died. He was born in Northstead Road. One of 6 VC recipients connected to Streatham
On 29 September 1915 at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, Second Lieutenant Fleming-Sandes was sent to command a company which was in a very critical position. His men, very much shaken by continual bombing and machine-gun fire, were beginning to retire, but the second lieutenant collected a few bombs and jumping on the parapet in full view of the Germans, only 20 yards (18 m) away, threw them. Although severely wounded almost at once, he continued to advance and throw bombs until he was again wounded. This act put new heart into his men and saved the situation. (London Gazette) http://www.vconline.org.uk/alfred-j-t.../4586724877.html... (The second image is at the Streatham War Memorial) This appeared in the Tatler On This Day 24th May 1950
Pauline Johnson was born in Streatham but moved to Pinner. She appeared in Emile Littler's "Sally" at the Streatham Hill Theatre in December 1952 Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. Sir Richard Owen Plender
Richard Plender LLD LLM JSD QC died On This Day 23 May 2020 aged 74. Lived at 64 Woodmasterne Road and attended Woodmasterne School and Dulwich College He was called to the Bar in 1972 as one of the earliest and foremost EU practitioners. He took silk in 1989, joining what is now 20 Essex in 1990, and was appointed a Recorder in 1998. He combined work at the Bar with a distinguished academic career, including as Director of Research at the Hague Academy (1987-1988) and directing the Centre for European Law at King’s College, London (1988-1991). Credited with coining the phrase ‘European citizenship’, he had a prolific output of scholarly publications in numerous languages, starting with International Migration Law at the age of 27. Master Richard Plender served as Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division from 2008 until 2011. He was elected a Bencher of The Inner Temple in 1996. (Source Inner Temple) (Thanks to Wendy Roberts ) Professor Reg Mitchell died On This Day 23 May 2021
Born in 1943, Mitchell was educated at Battersea Grammar School in Streatham before moving on to Cambridge, where he obtained his BSc and PhD under the direction of Franz Sondheimer. After a post-doctoral position at the University of Oregon with Virgil Boekelheide, he briefly went back to England to work at Formica before he returned to his beloved West Coast and a post at UVic in 1972. Mitchell rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming associate professor in 1975 and professor with tenure in 1982. He had a world-wide reputation from his research in the aromaticity of large ring systems which resulted in 160 publications, three books and many invited and plenary lectures. His many successful undergraduate and graduate students, along with his post-doctoral fellows, would attest to his love of research and the attention he paid to it—and to their education and advancement in their chosen field. (University of Victoria) On This Day 22 May 1856 Conrad Dressler was born
Conrad Dressler (22 May 1856 – 3 August 1940) was an English sculptor and potter. He was born in Streatham and the family lived at "Broadlands" Streatham High Road. His father Gustavus born in Germany, mother Suzanne born in France plus 2 brothers , a sister and 5 servants Dressler studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He was later influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement. He worked in partnership with Harold Rathbone between 1894 and 1897 at the Della Robbia Pottery, and then moved to Marlow Common in Buckinghamshire, where he established the Medmenham Pottery specialising in architectural tiles and large wall panels, created from small sections Dressler was the inventor of a tunnel kiln known as the 'Dressler oven'. (Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture Robert Prescott-Walker) Image John Ruskin by Conrad Dressler bronze bust, 1888 © National Portrait Gallery, London. Reproduced under the Creative Commons License Edith Mary Copley (1892-1993) died On This Day 21st May 1993
She was a servant with her sister Elizabeth Rose Copley at the "Burnage", Streatham Common. The "Burnage" was occupied by the Cave-Brown-Cave family. Edith was a VAD Red Cross Auxillary Nurse and Cook during WW1. The Copley family lived at 41 Wellfield Road in Streatham. |
AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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