​This appeared in the Daily Mirror On This Day 23 October 1969
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Unknown to train robber Ronnie Biggs who fled a motel in Australia that his suit from George Doland had a hidden ID sown inside the breast pocket
George Doland owned a chain of tailors. He was a Streatham-resident and Mayor of Wandsworth

On This Day 23rd October 1956 Ernest Robertson Punshon died at 38 Palace Road, Streatham.

He is also recorded living at 23 Nimrod Road, Streatham and 123 Welham Road, West Streatham

He was a novelist and literary critic who reviewed Agatha Christie's novels for the Guardian.
He was a prolific writer of short stories
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Image ©National Portrait Gallery

Misfortune had struck during the school holidays on 27 July 1944, when a V-1 bomb damaged the school badly. Although parts of the building were still usable, the operation of the school had to be divided between four separate sites. It was not until 1949 that the contract for rebuilding was finally signed, and then followed three years of demolition and reconstruction.

The further expansion of the school led to the GPDST’s purchase in 1993 of a new site (for the Senior School) at Abbotswood Road, the former buildings of the Battersea Grammar School, purchased from London South Bank University.
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Image of School in Wavertree Road c1895 and 2020
(Source SCHS)

​On This Day 22 October 1943 this article appeared in the Norwood News
Charlie Kunz appearing at the Streatham Hill Theatre in a variety show presented by Bernard Delfont

On This Day 21 October 1973 Sir Alan John Cobham died

Alan Cobham is recorded living at 59 Baldry Gardens Streatham in 1911 and 1921
He attended Wilson's school and was an aviation pioneer who as a child built giant kites which he flew on Streatham Common.
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A pilot and instructor in the RAF. He worked for de Havilland where he flew wealthy clients all over Europe after working for an aerial photography company.
He was tasked with researching air routes to India. His venture flying to India and back is on the Pathe news clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekvcAQfjvqo
Family picture © National Portrait Gallery, London and Sir Frank Cobham portrait Frank Salisbury ©National Portrait Gallery

Charles Carpmael died On This Day 21 October 1894. He lived at 7 Streatham Hill.

Meteorologist and astronomer b. 19 Sept. 1846 in Streatham, , eighth son of William Carpmael, a well-known patent agent, and Sarah Pitt; m. 22 June 1876 Julia McKenzie in Toronto, and they had one son and one daughter; d. 21 Oct. 1894 in Hastings, England.
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Charles Carpmael received his elementary education at the Clapham Grammar School under Charles Pritchard, later Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford. He earned a mathematics scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1865, and he was sixth wrangler at graduation in 1869. Elected a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1870, that same year he joined a British expedition to Spain, where he took spectroscopic observations of the corona during an eclipse of the sun.
Buried at West Norwood Cemetery

Mark King was born On This Day 20 October 1958 (on the IoW). He is a musician and former resident of the "Spinney", Streatham

Lead singer and bassist of the band Level 42. King is known for his slap style of playing the bass guitar, with MusicRadar describing him as "the guy who put the slap in pop during the 80s".

King received a BASCA Gold Badge Award in October 2015 in recognition of his contribution to British music. He won the "Outer Limits" award at the 2017 Progressive Music Awards.
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He is the elder brother of fellow Level 42 member Nathan King and Boon Gould, also of Level 42, lived in Streatham, Glenendon Road