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 On This Day 26th June 1952 Olive Morris was born.
Died aged 27 and buried at Streatham Park Cemetery Community activist in 1970s. (Photo kind permission Streatham resident ©Neil Kenlock) NPG x199645 National Portrait Gallery.
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 On This Day 25 June 1985, Streatham-born actor Jill Gascoine with Frances de la Tour at a protest in Brixton - captioned, 'Celebrities on Town Hall Steps for Fighting Fund'. Lambeth's left-wing council refused to set a rate, putting it at odds with central government's planned funding cuts. The stand-off ended with the dismissal of 31 councillors from office in 1986.
 On This Day 24th June 1985 Sally Barnes (Audrey Happy Parker.) died She was an actress, known for Holiday's with Pay (1948), Somewhere in Politics (1948) and Make Mine a Million (1959). She was married to Bobby Beaumont.
She is the mother of Streatham-born Laura Beaumont, a scriptwriter, and wife to Bill Oddie (Source IMDb)   On This Day 23 June 1926- The opening day of Surrey v Oxford University at The Oval, in which Jack Hobbs and Streatham's Andy Sandham put on a club record 428 for the 1st wicket. (Marcus Hook)
Andy Sandham was born in Streatham and lived at "Kelso" where his father was the gardener. (Kelso was roughly in the area where the Virgin Active is today with its front on Streatham High Road at number 251  The chess player and literary scholar, Howard Staunton died On This Day 22 June 1874. Resident at 2 Leigham Ave.
Name conferred on set of chess pieces designed by Nathaniel Cook  Tony Hunt, Structural engineer who built the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich and the huge biodomes at the Eden Project in Cornwall was born On This Day 22 June 1932 Hunt was born in Streatham Hill, the elder son of James Hunt, a solicitor’s clerk, and Joan (nee Cassidy) He moved away from London with his mother and brother in order to avoid the Blitz and finally settled in Farnborough   It looks so idyllic and it is interesting to see children were on scooters even then! (Lambeth Archives)  This appeared in the Nottingham Journal On This Day 21 June 1949 Sir William Thomas Bailey lived at 70 Woodfield Ave and is buried at Streatham Park Cemetery A Director of Westminster Press Provincial Newspapers NPG x86233 © National Portrait Gallery, London  |
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