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Saloman van Abbe

31/7/2021

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Saloman van Abbe was born 31 July 1883
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Resident of Thornton and Moyser Roads Streatham . He was the Founder member of The Streatham Art Society and exhibited at the Royal Academy

He was particularly well-known for his illustrations for re-issues of classic children’s novels such as Treasure Island, Little Women, Tom Brown’s Schooldays and the Jennings books
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Lieutenant Walter Edward Worsdale Cottle

31/7/2021

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Lieutenant Walter Edward Worsdale Cottle killed On This Day 31 July 1917

Walter was the eldest child of an insurance broker, also named Walter Cottle, and his wife Agnes. Spent time working with his father at Lloyd’s of London. Lived "Bernina", Leigham Court Road

When war was declared he tried to sign up for military service straight away, but was at first refused on medical grounds, as a result taking up a position with the Royal Automobile Club, driving his own car in service of Lord Salisbury’s Division, Chelmsford.

Walter however regularly re-attempted to enter the Army and, in January 1916, was finally given medical clearance to do so, joining the Artists Rifles. He was held in high regard, and less than a month later was sent across to the Grenadier Guards, who had asked the Artists Rifles for two promising young men to be transferred in order to take up commissions. 

He spent some time at Grantham, training as a Machine Gunner, before going across to France in the autumn of 1916, being promoted to Lieutenant at around the same time.

He was killed in action at Pilckem Ridge, near Ypres, on July 31st the following year, whilst manning a machine gun on the Guards’ right flank.

(Dulwich College)




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Sidney R. J. Smith (1858–1913)

31/7/2021

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This image of Sydney Smith appeared in the Tatler On This Day 31 July 1897
Sidney R. J. Smith (1858–1913) was a Late Victorian English architect, best known for the work he undertook in the 1880s and 1890s for the philanthropist Henry Tate including the original Tate Gallery at Millbank.
His works includes:
  • Durning Library,
  • Outdoor Relief Station, Norwood (1887)
  • Tate Free Library, South Lambeth Road (1887)
  • Durning Library, Kennington (1889)
  • Tate Free Library, Streatham (1890)
  • Tate Free Library, Brixton Oval (1892)
  • Cripplegate Institute, 1 Golden Lane (1896) 
  • National Gallery of British Art (Tate Gallery) (1897)
  • 16–19 Dunraven Street, Mayfair (1897)
  • St Thomas, Telford Park, Streatham Hill (with Spencer William Grant) 
  • Tate Mausoleum, West Norwood Cemetery (c.1890)
  • Euston Underground station, City and South London Railway (1907) (demolished)
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Mitcham Lane Baptist Church- Streatham

30/7/2021

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​On This Day 30 July 1938 this picture of Mitcham Lane Baptist Church, Streatham was taken
(Graham Willson)
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS

29/7/2021

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On This Day 29 July 1962 1890 the statistician Ronald Fisher died

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962), who published as R. A. Fisher, was a British statistician and geneticist.

He lived at 56 Kempshott Road, Streatham.

Ronald Fisher FRS, born, was "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science". He also brought together the work of Mendel and Darwin and has been called "the greatest of Darwin’s successors" ( Source Royal Society)

Fisher was born in East Finchley in London, England, into a middle class household; his father, George, was a successful partner in Robinson & Fisher, auctioneers and fine art dealers. He was one of twins with the other being still-born and grew up the youngest with three sisters and one brother. From 1896 until 1904 they lived at Inverforth House in London, where English Heritage installed a blue plaque in 2002, before moving to 56 Kempshott Rd, Streatham. His mother, Kate, died from acute peritonitis when he was 14, and his father lost his business 18 months later.

He married Eileen Guinness, with whom he had two sons and six daughters. His marriage disintegrated during World War II, and his oldest son George, an aviator, was killed in combat. His daughter Joan, who wrote a biography of her father, married the noted statistician George E. P. Box

(Second image © the artist's estate. Photo credit: Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge)
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Our #ThrowbackThursday for this week.Wellfield Road and the Leigham Arms Pub n/d (Photo courtesy Kevin Kelly)

29/7/2021

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​Walter Hedgcock- Musical Director at the Crystal Palace

28/7/2021

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e​Walter Hedgcock died 28 July 1932

Resident of 198 Barcombe Ave and Streatham Manor in Leigham Avenue. He was the Musical Director at the Crystal Palac

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Buried at West Norwood Cemetery
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Happy Birthday Tooting Bec Lido- 115 today

28/7/2021

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On This Day 28 July 1906 the Lido opened on Tooting Bec Common
"Bathing Ponds, Tooting Bec Common, Streatham"
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The idea for the lido was initiated by the rector of St Nicholas, Tooting and Wandsworth borough mayor Rev John Hendry Anderson.
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Rosemary Brown

27/7/2021

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On This Day 27 January 1913 Rosemary Brown was born. She was a pupil at Rosa Bassett School, Streatham and lived in Balham

Rosemary Isabel Brown (27 July 1916 – 16 November 2001) was an English composer, pianist and spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.
She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by presenting works purportedly dictated to her by Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninoff

Born in Stockwell, Rosemary Dickeson was the daughter of an electrician and a catering manageress. Though her great love was dancing, when she left Rosa Bassett school, Streatham, at the age of 15, her father saw to it that she went to work for the Post Office.

Professor of psychology John Sloboda wrote that Brown's music offers "the most convincing case of unconscious composition on a large scale."

Was she a fraud? The late composer and former Streatham-resident Ian Parrott argued not. He believed she wasn’t clever enough to fake what she transcribed, he told the BBC documentary. “In my view,” Parrot wrote in her Guardian obituary in 2001, “the limitations of her training [she took a few piano lessons] left her unfettered by too much formal apparatus, and so better placed to receive music from others.”


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World Champion ballroom dancer Bobbie Irvine

27/7/2021

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On This Day 27 July 1932 Bobbie Irvine was born. With husband Billy Irvine the couple lived in Abbotswood Road and owned the Starlight dance studio which still exists in Streatham

The young Bobbie Barwell was spotted by Bill Irvine, a competitive dancer from a Scottish mining family from Low Craigends in Kilsyth. He brought her to Britain from South Africa and together they dominated the dance scene for the second half of the 20th century, first in competitions and then in teaching and adjudicating from their school at the "world famous" Starlight in Streatham.

Winning 13 world titles between 1960 and 1968, Bobbie transcended the decline of ballroom dancing in Britain

(The Times Obituary)

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Commemorative plaque on Tooting Bec Common
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