On This Day 26th August 1868 Evelyn Cameron was born. Daughter of Philip Flower of "Furzedown House" Streatham in the Parish of St Leonard's
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​We are very sorry to hear of the death of Thomas "Red" Imrie on 24th August 2020. He was a player and coach for Streatham Redskins

He guided the Redskins to three league titles and two play‑off triumphs. He retired after taking them to the semi-finals of the 1985 Heineken British Championships
He competed for GB in the 1961 and 1962 World Championships and voted the the tournament’s best defenceman, the first Brit ever to receive the honour in 1966. He was capped 19 times for Britain, tallying 11 points (six goals).

He was recruited in 1986 by BBC-TV as a colour commentator, working alongside Alan Weeks and later with Barry Davies. During the 1980s and 1990s the BBC screened several Wembley finals on Grandstand and a ‘game of the month’.
Red spent his retirement in Coulsdon, Surrey where he played his beloved golf - his handicap was in single figures - almost every day until he became unwell in his eighties.
Thomas (Red) Imrie was born in Falkirk, Scotland on July 15, 1937 and died on 24 August 2020.

(Falkirk Herald)

Newspaper clip Norwood News 25 Dec 1959 Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.

iOn This Day 25 August 1944 the film Champagne Charlie was released, starring Tommy Trinder who was born at 54 Wellfield Road, Streatham.

Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, prod. Michael Balcon. Very loosely based on George Leybourne & The Great Vance (played by Tommy Trinder & Stanley Holloway).
Some songs were original Music Hall songs although many written for the film.
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(Music Hall Society)

​On This Day 24th August 2005 Dr Maurice John Cowling died. The family moved from Camberwell to Pendle Road in Streatham

He wast the elder child of Reginald Frederick Cowling (1901–1962) and his wife, May, née Roberts.
In 1937 Cowling won a place at Battersea grammar school in Abbotswood Road Streatham, being evacuated with it following the outbreak of the Second World War to Worthing and then Hertford. In August 1943 he gained a major scholarship to read history at Jesus College, Cambridge.
After graduation Cowling registered to write a PhD thesis on the policy and politics of British India from 1860 to 1890, and spent time in 1950–51 studying in Delhi, Calcutta, and Bombay.

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On This Day 24 August 1903 the artist Graham Vivian Sutherland was born at 8 Pendle Road, Streatham.

Eldest of the three children of George Humphrey Vivian Sutherland (1873–1952), barrister and civil servant at the Board of Education, and his wife, Elsie Foster (1877–1957).

​ His younger brother, (Carol) Humphrey Vivian Sutherland (1908–1986), became a distinguished numismatist.

​Image Sutherland ©National Portrait Gallery

In 1949 he had painted his first portrait, a startling full-length study of Somerset Maugham (Tate collection).

​ This powerful work, widely acclaimed, was followed by a portrait of Maugham's neighbour on the Riviera, Lord Beaverbrook(1952, National Portrait Gallery, London), whose newspapers did much to make Sutherland famous in Britain—not least when an all-party parliamentary committee commissioned him to paint Sir Winston Churchill as a gift for the latter's eightieth birthday in 1954. The result, both praised and reviled by MPs, was detested by its subject for making him look old and, he claimed, half-witted. It was subsequently destroyed on Lady Churchill's orders, though sketches for it survive.

Among the best of Sutherland's later portraits are those of his friend Edward Sackville-West (1954), Paul Sacher (1956), Princess Gourielli (Helena Rubinstein) (1957, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada), Prince von Fürstenberg (1959), Konrad Adenauer (1965, priv. coll.), and Lord Goodman (1973). Others lacked conviction and revealed his weaknesses as a draughtsman.

(Source Roger Berthoud)

On this day 23 August 1762 Lady Caroline Russell married George Duke of Marlborough at Bedford House. The marriage is recorded at St Leonards Church Streatham by Rev Tattershall, the Rector

Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough (January 1743 – 26 November 1811), formerly Lady Caroline Russell.
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(Image Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough, by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

On This Day 23 August 1878 Herbert John Crouch was born

Streatham branch of Westminster Bank 1947. Now NatWest still in same location and have these pictures on the walls in the branch.

One of three memorials in the branch - remembers Herbert Crouch who fell in WW1 and worked in the branch then called London and County and Westminster Bank.

Herbert John Crouch was born on 23 August 1878, the son of Charles Crouch. In February 1897, when he was 18 years old, Crouch went to work for London & County Bank. In 1909 London & County Bank merged with London & Westminster Bank, and Crouch became an employee of the enlarged London County & Westminster Bank.

In August 1916 Crouch left his job as a clerk at the bank's London Herne Hill branch to go on military service.
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Private Crouch of The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) was killed in action in Belgium on 5 November 1917. He was 39 years old