On This Day 30th June 1944 at 10:30 am a V1 bomb fell on 11 Hoadly Road.

Sadly Miss McSweeny and an old English sheepdog were killed
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More detail in Streatham's 41- bomb 14
https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/histories.html

- Courtesy Ron Knee Archive.Click 

Lionel Louis Leleu was born on this day 29th June 1897. A resident of 67 Wavertree Road

On 28 March 1933, an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy II passenger aircraft, named City of Liverpool and operated by British airline Imperial Airways, crashed near Diksmuide, Belgium. Captain Leleu was the pilot who with 14 others was killed. he is buried at West Norwood cemetery.
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It was the deadliest accident in the history of British civil aviation to that time. It has been suggested that this was the first airliner ever lost to sabotage and in the immediate aftermath, suspicion centred on one passenger, Albert Voss, who seemingly jumped from the aircraft before it crashed.

The Norwood News On This Day 29th June 1878 reported the estate of Edward Richardson Slee
He was a vinegar manufacturer and lived at 'Leigham Holme' in Leigham Crt Rd
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The Slee and Co vinegar works were operated on the same site from 1812- 1992. Founded by Noah Slee at Horsleydown in 1812. John Vickers joined in 1823 and the company traded as Vickers and Slee and by 1832 had 75 percent market share.  Became Champions and Slee in 1907

On This Day 28th June 1998 Rudy Narayan died

Rahasya Rudra (Rudy) Narayan (11 May 1938 – 28 June 1998) was a barrister and civil rights activist.
He migrated to Britain in the 1950s from Guyana. He lived at 23 Woodbourne Avenue, Streatham.

A plaque commemorates him at his practice in Brixton
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Image by Harry Kerr, 1983 [centre, with a group of his supporters in front of the High Court]
© News International Newspapers Ltd

Gordon Laing was born On This Day June 28 1943 in Scotland.

Lived in Glennie Road off Leigham Court Road.

Joined Sotheby's as an accountant but ended up there as a world-renowned expert on Chinese ceramics. He often appeared on the Antiques Road Show

At the time of his death his address was in Lyham Road off Brixton Hill.
He died in Trinity Hospice, Clapham on October 11 2010.
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With many thanks to Kevin Kelly for the information. Kevin was at school with Gordon at St Andrew's Streatham.

Ernest William Matthew Swann of 16 Greyhound Terrace died On This Day 27 June 1943

A postman who was in the Royal Corps of Signals
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PoW card and grave at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery
Kanchanaburi,Thailand

On This Day 26th June 1897 Victor George Shrapnel was born.

Lived at 27 Wavertree Road and educated at Wilson's Grammar and Magdalen College Oxford
Killed 23 March 1918 on duty with the "A" Coy 8th Batallion East Surrey Regiment
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He was a descendant of Lt General Shrapnel, the inventor of the shell which bears its name

On This Day 26th June 1952 Olive Morris was born. She died aged 27 and is buried at Streatham Park Cemetery
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Olive Morris was a community activist in South London in the 1970s. Through her activities organising the black community and feminist activism, she left behind an extraordinary legacy of local activism.