Streatham News On This Day 26 September 1952
Wild Horses with Robertson Hare and Ralph Lynn
Wild Horses with Robertson Hare and Ralph Lynn
 What did the papers say On This Day 26th September 1958
A new bypass to Streatham High Road from Kings Ave/Thornton Road, linking Sternhold and Drewstead Roads to Garrad's Road. Opposition from traders to the widening of Streatham High Road /Streatham Hill and forming a dual carriageway A private prosecution by Bill Boakes against a motorist for driving too fast, carelessly, dangerously and without reasonable care. You could buy a 2 year old Ford Popular for £339 156 pairs of trousers were stolen from Barrow Road. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.  JAMES BERNARD MILLARD WALCH 2ND LIEUTENANT / 2ND BATTALION QUEEN’S (ROYAL WEST SURREY) REGIMENT DIED ON ON THIS DAY 25 SEPTEMBER 1915 Son of James and Catherine Walch. He was born in Bellerive, Tasmania but was in the UK by 1901 as the Census showed him living with his mother and sister at 67 Lydhurst Ave, Streatham Hill Commenced his schooling at Hitchin Grammar School from which he won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital. At the time of the 1911 Census John Walch was living with his uncle in Dulwich Village and described as an architectural student. The practice to which he was apprenticed was Millard and Pryce. Millard was his mother’s maiden name. John Walch enlisted with the Artists Rifles 28th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment as a Private but when he was commissioned in December 1914 he became a 2nd Lieutenant with the 2nd Battalion Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) He disembarked in France on 29 December 1914 and was killed in action of the first day of the Battle of Loos. His body was never recovered. ( Christ's Hospital) Reschedule Post Post now Active  Dame Elvira Sibyl Maria [Vera]Laughton was born in Hammersmith On This Day 25 September 1888 and died On This Day 25th September 1959
Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Daughter of Sir John Knox Leighton , naval instructor, and his second wife, Maria Josepha di Alberti She was educated at the convents of the Religious of St Andrew, Streatham, then (like her mother) at Tournai, and then at King's College, London. Lesley Thomas Oxford DNB Image by Bassano Ltd NPG x84382 © National Portrait Gallery  On This Day 24 September 1870 Ernest De Selincourt was born. The family lived at "Alverstoke" Leigham Court Road Streatham
Ernest De Selincourt, (1870–1943), literary scholar, the third son of the four sons and three daughters of Charles Alexandre De Sélincourt, a clothing manufacturer, and his wife, Theodora Bruce Bendall. Agnes De Selincourt was his sister. He was educated first at Huddersfield College and then in 1885 went to Dulwich College, where he played rugby and acquired a taste for the poetry of Wordsworth. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, in 1890, moving in a circle of friends which included John Shawcross, who was the future editor of the first modern edition of Coleridge's Biographia literaria. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1928-1933 Early in his career he taught in the ladies' department at KCL where Virginia Woolf was one of his students Image Wikipedia and source Oxford DNB  John Davidson/ Jack Martell died On This Day 24th September 1955. A music hall star who lived at 2 Northanger and 11a Drewstead Roads. He was the father of the famous juggler Anita Martell   Ronald Albert Ernest Tindall was born On This Day 23 September 1935 in Streatham. He was an English footballer who played as a striker. He was also an accomplished cricketer, playing for Surrey He was born in Streatham and is recorded living at 8 Kingscourt Road in the late 50s, early 60s Tindall established himself in the Chelsea first team and he struck up a prolific strike partnership with the emerging Jimmy Greaves. In the 1960–61 season, they scored 59 goals between them (16 for Tindall, 43 for Greaves) On signing for Chelsea, Tindall negotiated a special arrangement with the club, whereby he was allowed to miss the first and last months of the football season to play cricket for Surrey. Tindall was an all-rounder, a right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler.   Happy birthday Baroness Floella Benjamin born On This Day 23 September
A Trinidadian-British actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward. Baroness Floella Benjamin, a former longtime resident of Streatham. Chancellor of Exeter University from 2006-16  Sir Thomas Scawen died On This Day 22 September 1730. A former resident at Russell House in Streatham he died in Carshalton and was buried at Horton, Buckinghamshire He was Governor of the Bank of England from 1721 to 1723.   On This Day 22 September 1870 Maria Dickin was born
Maria Elisabeth Dickin (1870–1951), founder of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), known by her friends as Mia, was born at 1 Farrington Terrace, South Hackney, on 22 September 1870. Daughter of William George Dickin (d. in or before 1899), Wesleyan minister, and his wife, Ellen Maria, née Exell. Maria was the eldest of their eight children, and to supplement the family's slender income she established a voice production studio in Wimpole Street. On 1 September 1899 she married—at the parish church of St John the Evangelist, Westminster—her first cousin Arnold Francis Dickin (b. 1874/5), son of Henry Dickin. Her husband was an accountant living at 4 Orlando Road, Clapham. The 1901 census found the couple living at 12 Mount Nod Road, Streatham, with one servant, and described Arnold Dickin as 'accountants' articled clerk' and Mia as 'professor of singing'. She later gave up her studio to keep house in Hampstead Heath; they had no children. By 1950 the PDSA was providing in Britain a regular service in 207 communities, not to mention its animal ambulances and hospitals and its five homes for stray dogs. |
