The Sphere On This Day 20th June 1925
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A novel method of teaching boys geography is employed at the Aspen House Open Air School, Streatham Hill Here the scholars paint maps of various parts of the world on the walls of the school itself. Boys at work painting maps on the brickwork of the school. John Tremayne a resident of "Ivydene" Aldrington Road, Streatham Park died On This Day 19th June 1915
Sub Lieutenant John Alaric Eva Tremayne was born on August 7th 1890 in Northern Chile, Alaric was the second of four children born to William Tremayne, a Captain with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, and his wife, Sofia, who had been born to a British family in Peru. By 1901 the family had moved to London, and he went on to spend time at a prep school in Streatham before coming to the College at the start of 1904, at the same time as his elder brother William. Both brothers left in the summer of 1906, at which point Alaric was a member of the Engineering Lower Fourth. After leaving he spent five years at the Queen’s Engineering Works, Bedford, originally as an apprentice, and was also during this period a reservist in the Bedfordshire Yeomanry, undergoing a course of machine gun training. He later returned to South America, where he joined his brother working on a farm in San Luis Province in central Argentina; in May 1913 he abandoned this in order to work for the Central Argentine Railway. When war was declared in the summer of 1914 Alaric returned to England as soon as possible, and upon his return took up a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, where he was at first assigned to the Machine Gun Section. In May 1915 he was transferred to the Hawke Division and shortly afterwards was sent to Gallipoli with his new unit. The next month, on June 19th, he was killed in action, whilst leading his men in an assault on a Turkish trench, six weeks short of his 35th birthday. (Dulwich College) (Helles Memorial Gallipoli, Çanakkale, Turkey Final resting place unknown. Name listed on Panel 8 to 15) The rubber factory was at Streatham Common on the site of Sainsbury. Image © Illustrated London News Group. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. The second V1 "doodle bug' that fell on Streatham On This Day 18th June 1944 was at 23 Pathfield Road. Sisters Annie and Violet Potts were sadly killed.
Bombs also fell that night in Penrith and Downton Find out about all the 41 bombs that fell on Streatham in our book https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/histories.html Vanessa Lee (born Winnifred Ruby Moule) was an actress born in Streatham On This Day 18th June 1920
Vanessa was best known for her appearances in Ivor Novello’s musicals in the immediate post-war years as well as appearing occasionally on television. During her career she had a little cosmetic surgery on her nose that enabled her to breath more easily. Her partnership with contralto Olive Gilbert in Novello’s hit shows was legendary. Her husband inherited an Irish peerage, when he became the 8th Baron Graves, but continued to act as Peter Graves. In 1949 she acted in Ivor Novello’s musical, “King’s Rhapsody”, at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, England with Ivor Novello, Zena Dare, Phyllis Dare and Olive Gilbert in the cast. (1954) She acted in Noël Coward’s musical, “After the Ball”, at the Globe Theatre in London, England with Peter Graves, Mary Ellis and Graham Payn in the cast. Robert Helpmann was the director. (Vanessa Lee was distantly related to Billy Wells- see post 11 June 2021) Kenneth Robert Livingstone born On This Day 17 June 1945
Lived in Shrubbery Road and attended St Leonard's School Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East from 1987 to 2001. Herbert Levi Jacobs was born On This Day 16th June 1863. A barraister who spent his early years in Streatham at Bushey House, Streatham Hill.
He was a member of the Brixton Chess Club Bushey Lodge was one of the largest in the neighbourhood - the Jacobs family would have needed the space, what with Herbert, his three brothers and his four sisters, the staff of four, not forgetting two parents: Edward, a "merchant", still only 43, and Alice just 38 (who had borne eight children by the age of 32). Incidentally, John Brown, the encyclopedic historian of Streatham, explains that a previous owner, earlier in the century, was William Evill aka Mr. Schweppes (after he bought them out in 1834). Evill moved to Streatham to facilitate his promotion of you know what at the Great Exhibition of 1851, where they sold over a million bottles. He bubbled away in Bushey Lodge until 1877. Herbert, and (I'm assuming) his chess-playing junior brother Harold, went to the prestigious Whitgift School in Croydon - there was an omnibus door to door seven miles south. After Whitgift, he studied for, and acquired in July 1883, a BA in German at London University (per documentation in the Inner Temple Archive, with thanks), so presumably he had finished his schooling a few years earlier. In 1883 when he was admitted to the Inner Temple, when the family address was given as 17 Morland Road, Croydon. He was called to the Bar in January 1887 when his father's address was given as West Lodge on Denmark Hill. (Source Streatham and Brixton Chess Club) On This Day 16th June 1944 the first "doodlebug" fell on Streatham at 2am on the Empire cinema16/6/2021 Full details of all 41 "doddlebugs" that fell on Streatham is contained in our book https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/histories.html |
AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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