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 Petty Officer Pauline Mary Gompers of 50 Woodfield Ave was killed on active service On This Day 27th July 1945 in an aircraft accident at Abroath The family owned the American Dress shop , 270 Upper Tooting Road She is buried at Streatham Cemetery-photo @radi3 
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 Suffragette demonstration on Streatham Common. An article in Votes for Women On This Day 26 July 1912
Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Interesting to see the Cather family involved. Geoffrey Cather was killed a few years later in the Somme and was a recipient of a VC. A memorial stone is at the Streatham War memorial by Streatham Common.  The broadcaster Colin Weston was born On This Day 26 July 1948. He attended Streatham Modern School
Best known for his work at Granada Television and Tyne Tees Television.  On This Day 25 July 1901 Prince Frank Littler CBE born Prince Frank Richeux. Theatre proprietor, impresario and television executive.
At the age of 25 Littler started his theatrical career with small companies touring provincial towns. 5 years later he became an independent theatre owner. His empire began to build following the opening of theatres in Leicester, Manchester and Norwich before putting on his first London production at the Coleseum in St Martin's Lane followed by the New Prince's Theatre (now the Shaftesbury Theatre) and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Littler's West End shows included Carousel, Guys and Dolls and Fiddler on the Roof. Littler with Sir Frederick Galer and Hugh Kingdon was a first director of the Streatham House Playhouse Ltd in 1928 In 1936 Prince Littler became pantomime producer at Streatham, opening his tenure with “Humpty Dumpty” followed in 1937 with “Jack and the Beanstalk”, starring Ted Ray, Shaun Glenville as Dame, with Marie Burke (mother of Patricia Burke) and “Baby Terry” as Fairy. The 1938 panto was “Sleeping Beauty”, and the first wartime panto saw Barry Lupino as Widow Twankey in “Aladdin”. This pantomime featured Wilson, Keppel and Betty. When he was approached by Streatham resident Lew Grade to become a major shareholder in Associated Television he was already the managing director of three major theatre groups and the chairman of Moss Empires. Littler was appointed CBE in 1957 and retired in 1966. He passed away at his Sussex home in 1973, aged 72 years. (Sources Nigelthedame, Teletronic and John Cresswell - Streatham Society)  This appeared in Hampshire Telegraph 25 July 1958 announcing the death of Captain Thomas Hunter Galpin of 54 Prentis Road. Married to Dorothy they had one son Edward Thomas William Galpin, OBE General Manager (South) of Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers Ltd   On This Day 24th July 1915 Hugh Kingdon married Mary Law at St Leonard's Church. Hugh Sewell Kingdon responsible for setting-up the entertainment centre in Streatham of the Streatham Hill Theatre, Locarno and Gaumont Palace. Mary Law an international violinist who regularly performed in front of Royalty Image by Bassano Ltd, NPG x124371 ©National Portrait Gallery London
 Ernest Belfort Bax was born in Lemington Spa On This Day 23 July 1854. A noted English barrister, journalist, philosopher, men's rights advocate, socialist, and historian, associated with the Social Democratic Federation.
He was a resident of 61 Streatham Hill Son of Daniel Bax, a wealthy Mackintosh raincoat manufacturer and traditionalist non conformist . Bax's elder brother, barrister Alfred Ridley Bax, was father of the composer and writer Arnold Bax and the playwright and essayist Clifford Bax Image ©National Portrait Gallery NPG Ax39123    Photo Heart Streatham Magazine   Wilson Barrett died On This Day 22 July 1904. A resident in Angles Road
Born William Henry Barrett an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. (Wilson Barrett (William Henry Barrett Image by Alexander Bassano 1882 NPG x96385 © National Portrait Gallery, London) |
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