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 Wallace Hughes was born On This Day 31 July 1878. He lived at 13 Woodbourne Ave and 9 Becmead Avenue. Also resided at addresses in Brixton and Balham Wallace Hughes owned Wallace Hughes department store in Brixton Photo courtesy of his grand daughter Deborah Keogh  
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 Municipal Building now Wandsworth Town Hall formally opened July 1937.
The High Street facade of Edward Hunt's building, extends to 15 bays, was embellished by a frieze , carved by David Evans and John Linehan, depicting local historical scenes The Streatham Frieze which depicts the people of Streatham, although most of Streatham is now in the London Borough of Lambeth leaving, for administrative reasons, the Furzedown area of Streatham in the borough of Wandsworth Included in the frieze: Roman Soldiers, Sir John Ward, St Leonard, Hester Thrale and Dr Johnson and others. (Ornamental passions)  On This Day 30th July 1934 the Golden Domes Cinema, Streatham High Road was showing Madame Spy. The cinema opened in September 1912 as the Streatham Picture Theatre. One of 6 cinemas in Streatham and today the site of a gym . The Streatham Picture Theatre was opened with 900 seats. The opening film was “Caesar Borgia”. The building had an impressive facade, with the entrance flanked by two bays, which were topped by large domes. In October 1929, the cinema was enlarged to the plans of cinema architect John Stanley Beard and it was re-named Golden Domes Picture Theatre. It was taken over by Associated British Cinemas(ABC) in August 1935. However, this was not to last very long, as ABC built and opened their new Regal Super Cinema just along the other side of the High Road. The Golden Domes Picture Theatre was closed on 12th November 1938, just two days before the Regal Super Cinema opened.   On This Day 29 July 1911 The Law Lord Leslie Scarman was born in Streatham
Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman OBE PC QC was an English judge and barrister, who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986. He was born in Streatham at "Westerfield", 5 Telford Avenue but grew up on the border of Sussex and Surrey. He won scholarships to Radley College and then Brasenose College, Oxford, as a Classical Scholar, graduating in 1932 with a first. He was appointed head of the Law Commission from 1965 to 1973, during which time 27 Commission-inspired statutes were made law. As a judge, Scarman's career had some controversial decisions. Although widely regarded as a liberal, he upheld the blasphemy conviction of Gay News (1979), punctured the GLC's Fares Fair low-cost public transport policy (1981), and supported the banning of trade unions at GCHQ (1985). He is best known for chairing the public inquiry on the causes of the race riots in Brixton in 1981. He also chaired inquiries into the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969 (1969–1972), the Red Lion Sq Photo Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman by Elliott & Fry half-plate negative, 1961 NPG x82656 ©National Portrait Gallery  Sir John Barbirolli, CH (2 December 1899 – 29 July 1970), née Giovanni Battista Barbirolli, conductor and cellist, was born Giovanni Battista at 12 Southampton Row, London, on 2 December 1899, the elder son and second of the three children of an émigré Italian violinist, Lorenzo Barbirolli (1864–1928), and his Parisian wife, Louise Marie Ribeyrol (1870–1962). In 1929 Barbirolli was appointed conductor of the Covent Garden touring company and also conducted regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the grand opera season. in April 1943 Barbirolli was invited to become permanent conductor of the Hallé Orchestra at a time of crisis in its history, he accepted without hesitation. Sir John has connections with Streatham. In the Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier...."On boxing day Kathleen was with the Barborelli family at his mother's home in Streatham... and again on New Year's eve, by this time the full knowledge that from the following day she would be known as Kathleen Ferrier CBE" Sir John briefly lived with his mother 33 Wavertree Road and then a separate address in Streatham with his wife (Source Michael Kennedy) Picure by Walter Stoneman bromide print, 1952 NPG x163877 © National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons License  "Bathing Ponds, Tooting Bec Common, Streatham" The idea for the lido was initiated by the rector of St Nicholas, Tooting and Wandsworth mayor Rev John Henry Anderson.     Founded by George Pratt, the store stood on Streatham High Road from the 1850s. The store expanded and moved across the Road in 1867, passing through various owners until the John Lewis partnership purchased it in 1940  #ThrowbackThursday this week and a lovely old picture (n/d) in Streatham Vale with the bridge and Streatham Common Station in the background
 On This Day 27th July 1913 Dame Mary Georgina [Molly] Green was born
Assistant mistress at Clapham high school from 1936 to 1938, Streatham Hill and Clapham high school from 1938 to 1940. In 1965, she was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Association. In the year, 1968, when it reported, she became a Dame. The Committee of Inquiry into Nurses' Pay and the Doctors and Dentist Remuneration Review Body (1976-79) followed, along with membership of the Press Council in the same period. For five years she was a governor of the BBC (1968-73). But she remained, until her death, quintessentially a headmistress whose real passion was the optimum organisation of one school. (Source Guardian Obituary 23 April 2004. Image by Godfrey Argent NPG x16891 © National Portrait Gallery, London) |
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