Photo by Foulsham & Banfield NPG x138251© National Portrait Gallery
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Photo by Foulsham & Banfield NPG x138251© National Portrait Gallery
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 William Newton Bakewell a resident of 41 Criffel Ave was born On This Day 26th October 1845 WILLIAM NEWTON BAKEWELL, born on the 26th October, 1845, died at Keswick on the 3rd November, 1913. Trained at the Don Engineering Works, Rotherham, he was afterwards engaged on railways in the London district and on various public works in Egypt. During the erection of the Forth Bridge , he acted as contractor’s engineer for part of the time, and later he was engaged in a similar capacity on the Tower Bridge, the Assuan Dam, the English bridge at Cairo, and irrigation schemes in Asia Minor. Shortly before his recent retirement, he surveyed harbours at Trebizond and Samsun, on the Black Sea, for Sir John Jackson. (Obituary Grace's Guide)   John (Jack) Hoani MacDonald was born On This Day 26 October 1907 Won Gold at the 1930 Empiure Games and 1932 Olympics, rugby Union of the New Zealand Maori and Rugby league for Streatham and Mitcham   On This Day 25 October John Doman Turner was born. (25 October 1871 – 3 January 1938). He was a deaf British painter and member of the Camden Town Group.
He lived at 63 Downton Ave, Streatham with his wife Frances Elizabeth Born in Brixton in London, Turner received artistic training by correspondence from Spencer Gore while working as a stockbroker's clerk. This correspondence still exists, and has been used by subsequent artists, for example Esther Freud in her novel The Sea House. Turner exhibited twelve works with the Camden Town Group in three exhibitions between 1911 and 1912 During his later life Turner went on to paint four unique scrolls including the Walberswick Scroll, a 123-foot 'Dioramic Pictorial Record of a Suffolk Village' which detailed every dwelling of the Suffolk village of Walberswick. This was followed by the Trinity Fair Scroll, a portrait of a travelling circus, which can be seen at the Swan Hotel, Southwold. The Walberswick Scroll has made several appearances on TV, the first on ITV News in May 2017, the second on More 4's 'Penelope Keith's Coastal Villages in January 2018. Image photo Stephen Robertson : 1908, pencil on paper by John Doman Turner (1871–1938). Private collection https://artuk.org/discover/stories/john-doman-turner-letters-to-the-forgotten-camden-towner  Thomas Wallis opening in the Streatham News On This Day 25 October 1957
Site of the old cinema, the Golden Globes and now a gym 130-2 Streatham High Road  This article appeared in the Streatham News On This Day 24 October 1958 Hughie Green to play Abanazar in Aladdin at the Streatham Hill Theatre   Sir Henry Tate lived at Park Hill Streatham. On This Day 23 October 1889, Sir Henry Tate wrote to the National Gallery to donate his collection of modern British art which was valued at £75,000 which is the equivalent of approximately £6.1 million today. In 1892 a decision was made to build a new gallery for British art on the site of the former Millbank prison. Henry Tate made an anonymous donation towards the new building. The gallery’s architect was Sidney Smith who was also the architect for several of the libraries in London that Henry Tate founded. Sir Hubert Von Herkomer Sir Henry Tate (1897) (Source Tate Gallery)   Flyer for 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at the Streatham Hill Theatre from 23rd October 1939. Annotated by Lucy Awdry: 'All Star Cast, their first appearance in London since war began'. In September 1939 all cinemas and theatres had closed down, although within a month or so some were opening up again beyond the West End, as Mrs Awdry also noted in her diary: 'the stars are now acting in the suburbs'.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties, and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. Included in the Lambeth Archives Home Front project (Lambeth Archives)   Variety Artiste Lilian Alice Hassall, ‘Lillie’, was born on 22nd October 1884 in Croydon. She performed under he stage name “Lillie Lassah” She is buried in Streatham Cemetery along with her husband Jim. Source Mary McCarthy, Lillie’s Granddaughter  |
