This appeared in the Norwood News 20 November 1959 Stevoni Academy of Dancing Streatham High Road20/11/2020
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On This Day 20th November 1929 the Streatham Hill Theatre opened. (The planned date for opening was 18th November 1929)
The first production was Wake up and Dream a Charles Cochrane revue which had already had a 33 week run at the London Pavilion starring Jessie Mathews and Sonnie Hale Our #ThrowbackThursday for this week
FOOTPATH SIGN, MITCHAM LANE, STREATHAM Old footpath sign on a wall in Mitcham Lane opposite Thrale Road, formerly an old right of way that followed Green Lane (Thrale Road) and Potter's Lane.Digital image courtesy of Graham Gower.Ref: SPd 4080/43 On This Day 19th November 1888 Keith Wood was born. Family lived at "Summerland," 50 Palace Road, Streatham Hill
Keith was born on November 19th 1888 to the Rev CFW. Wood and his wife Mary. He was involved in the second XV 1905-6 and played for the OA football club after he left. After this he trained to be a dentist qualifying with a Licentiate in Dentistry in 1914 at Guy’s Hospital, he had also been a member of the Territorial Force 23rd Battalion London Regiment from 1909 and had volunteered to be called up for foreign service in the event of war. On the outbreak of war, he joined his regiment and underwent a period of training before going to France in March 1915 during which time he was mention in despatches for distinguished conduct in the field. He was mortally wounded soon after in May, at Gavrelle, dying on the 27th May. He is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France. His elder brother Paul, a fellow OA, was also killed on the Western Front two years later. His brother Paul B Wood was also killed in WW1 (Dulwich College) On This Day 19 th November Harold Drayton was born
Harold Charles Gilbert [Harley] Drayton (1901–1966), financier, was born on 19 November 1901 at Streatham (the family lived at 68 Sunnyhill Road), the elder of two sons of Bob Drayton and his wife, Annie Keep. His father, who came from Lincolnshire, was employed by the London county council as a gardener. His mother died when the boys were still very young. He attended Eardley School in Streatham In the 1945 general election Drayton stood as Liberal candidate for Bury St Edmunds. Drayton had many business interests. He was chairman of Mitchell Cotts, which led to journeys all over Africa. He was chairman of United Newspapers and was largely responsible for building up the group because of his ability to make acquisitions. He was a director of the Midland Bank and of Eagle Star Insurance. He served his term as chairman of the Association of Investment Trusts and was treasurer of the Institute of Directors on its resuscitation in 1946. He died ay home 7 April 1966 at 20 Kensington Palace Gardens leaving an estate of over £2m Picture of Harold Drayton (far right) with Billy Butlin and Sir Tom O'Brien (Secretary of the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees) in the Norwood News 20 October 1961 at Conyers Road, Streatham and the opening of a youth Centre funded by the Variety Club of GB Image © Trinity Mirror. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. On This Day 18th November 1897 Henry Doulton died. A former resident of "Woodlands" Streatham
Sir Henry Doulton (1820–1897), pottery manufacturer, was born on 25 July 1820 at Vauxhall Walk, London, the second of the eight children of John Doulton (1793–1873), pottery manufacturer, and his wife, Jane Duneau, a widow from Bridgnorth in Shropshire. His father had become a partner in the Vauxhall Walk pottery in 1815, establishing the Doulton name in the industry with functional brown stoneware products. Henry spent two years at University College School in Gower Street, London, where his love of literature was fostered. John Doulton fully expected the most bookish of his sons to take to the cloth or the bar when he left school in 1835 but instead Henry expressed his desire to follow his elder brother, John junior, into the pottery business. Four of Henry's brothers also joined the company, but Frederick Doulton (1824–1872) became MP for Lambeth in 1862 and remained so for six years. After a brief apprenticeship, Henry Doulton had learned enough by 1846 to leave home and initiate and control his own branch of the business, making ceramic pipes for the sanitary market. It was the first factory to provide such products, meeting the rising demand for effective sanitation. In 1849 Doulton married Sarah, daughter of John L. Kennaby. They settled at 7 Stockwell Villas, Lambeth, where they had three children: Sarah Lilian, Henry Lewis, and Katherine. At the Paris Exhibition of 1867 Doulton presented the first examples of art pottery to be made by the company. Ten years previously John Sparkes, principal of the Lambeth School of Art, had approached Doulton with the idea of producing such ware but while the business of functional pottery was proving so successful there had seemed no need to add any new products. But Sparkes had not been dissuaded and, with the help of Edward Cresy, an engineer and lifelong friend of Henry Doulton, he eventually convinced him to experiment with purely artistic designs. The production of art ware had been fraught with technical problems and it was not until 1870 that they began to be resolved. John Sparkes had already introduced one student of the art school to Doulton, namely the sculptor George Tinworth, who was immediately employed for his modelling skills. Other artists like Hannah Barlow followed, and by 1872 a great variety of work was being produced. These early examples prompted Doulton to enlist a batch of Sparkes's students to decorate his products, providing them with studio facilities and blank pots of soft clay to work on. The resulting richly coloured salt-glazed stoneware with a range of decorative motifs was so distinctive of the company that it became known as Doulton Ware. In 1877 Doulton was approached by Shadford Pinder, a potter from Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, with a proposition to become a partner in the firm of Pinder, Bourne & Co. for an outlay of £12,000. This he agreed to, but the money was unwisely spent and differences of opinion caused such a rift between the two concerns that only arbitration resolved the matter. Indeed Pinder retired from the business and in 1882 the name changed to Doulton & Co., Burslem. It was John Slater, art director at Pinder Bourne, who, after travelling among the European potteries, convinced Doulton to produce china as well as earthenware. Again the marriage of art and industry facilitated some of the finest hand-painted china of the time with artists Percy Curnock and David Dewsberry among others. Such was the success of Doulton's efforts to create a vast array of art wares as well as functional designs at Lambeth and Burslem that in 1885 the Society of Arts, of which he had been a member since 1851 and later served as vice-president (1890–94), awarded him the Albert medal, which was presented by the prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). In 1887 Doulton was knighted by Queen Victoria at Osborne House. A year after his knighthood, in October 1888, Doulton's wife died and after a succession of highly renowned exhibitions Doulton spent most of his remaining years at Woolpit Farm, his home in Ewhurst, Surrey. He died at his London residence, 10 Queen's Gate Gardens, on 17 November 1897 and was buried on 22 November at Norwood cemetery. Alexander James Clements. (Photo by Vandyk-private collection / National Portrait Gallery) The Streatham Hub Tesco Extra Supermarket is the largest shop in Streatham and opened On This Day 18 November 2013. It occupies the site of the former Streatham Ice Rink and swimming baths
(John Brown: Streatham Past and Present) On This Day 17 November Adelaide Ironside was born - she was connected to William Leaf of Park Hill, Streatham Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside (17 November 1831 – 15 April 1867) was an Australian artist. Three of her paintings were donated to Australian national collections, but in 1888 they were in "a shed". They were then in Sydney University and "The Marriage at Cana" is at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Bob Flanagan of the Friends of West Norwood Cemetery writes: She was the daughter of James Ironside (1803–1866), an accountant, and Martha Rebecca, née Redman. In April 1855 she and her mother sailed for London, where they stayed at Park Hill, Streatham, home of William Leaf (1791– 1874). Her paintings The Marriage in Cana of Galilee, St Catherine, and The Pilgrim of Art were shown at the 1862 Great Exhibition in London.Sadly, Adelaide died of tuberculosis in Rome on 15 April 1867. According to research by Jill Poulton in the 1980s, William Leaf arranged for her body to be brought to London and for storage in the Catacombs at Norwood prior to shipping to Australia
Elizabeth Howland (1662 - 1719) married John Howland of Streatham Their daughter Elizabeth married Wriothesley, Marquis of Tavistock at Streatham in 1695. He later became the 2nd Duke of Bedford. Photograph of painting by John Riley in the possession of the Duke of Bedford. (Lambeth Archives) John Brown writes that following her death in 1719, in her will she left a number of bequests to the parish including £2 pa to be paid in perpetuity for the preaching of a sermon in St Leonard's church on the 17th November each year. This being the anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth 1 to commemorate the monarch's reestablishment of the Protestant faith in England |
AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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