The Architect Richard Norman Shaw died On This Day 17 November 1912. One of his projects was 'Compton" in Pendennis Road in 1873

Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), sometimes known as Norman Shaw, was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the greatest of British architects; his influence on architectural style was strongest in the 1880s and 1890s

'Compton' was owned from 1947-63 by Basil Greenfield, who was the owner of the New Croydon Rubber Company, 36 Mitcham Lane. The house was damaged in World War II and subsequently remodelled.

​Digital image of watercolour by kind permission of the artist, Barry Dustin, nephew of Mr Greenfield ©Lambeth

Prior to this "Compton" 5 Pendennis Road was occupied by Albert H Sytner (1863-) a South African Export Merchant with his wife Fannie, daughter May and Stepchildren Dollie and Sydney Stern.( Source: 1911 Census)

​On This Day 16 November Norwood Grove was opened to the Public by the Prince of Wales.
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Newspaper article Illustrated London News 20 November 1926

On This Day 16th November 1982 Arthur Askey died

In 1955 he appeared in “Babes in the Wood”, as Big Hearted Martha, with Patricia Burke as Robin Hood at the Streatham Hill Theatre
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The previous year “Humpty Dumpty” was performed at the theatre and included Arthur's daughter Anthea Askey in the title role. It was a a Jack Hylton production directed by Ralph Reader (of Gang Show fame) . The big names were Laurie Lupino Lane and George Truzzi, and the rest of the cast included Dick Emery as Dame, Eve Lister as Principal Boy (Nigel the Dame)

On this Day 15th November 1936 Charles Henry Higgins died

He was the MD of Jones and Higgins the department store in Peckham founded by his father, George Randell Higgins and Edwin Jones in 1886 with £80
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Charles Higgins lived at Nuneham, 23 Garrad's Road. An Arts and Crafts house redeveloped by Lambeth Council as an Old People's Home.

Evelyn Jane Brendan Williams, artist died On This Day 14th November 2012

She was born at 63 Leigham Court Road the daughter of Brendan Williams a journalist and writer and Jennie Jones an opera singer The family also lived at 69a Palace Road

Evelyn Williams achieved a degree of prominence through a John Moores sculpture prize in the Liverpool exhibition of 1961, awarded for a papier-mâché low-relief work, Two Heads, now in the Walker Art Gallery.
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The last two decades of Williams's creative life, with barely a day away from her studio into her eighties, were marked by building a painting practice that had as its hinterland the way the three-dimensionality of the reliefs had operated for her earlier in creating the language of her art.
(David Alston)

On the Day of the Lord Mayor's Show coincidental post on the family of one (of many) Lord Mayors from Streatham.
These pictures appeared in the Sketch on 13th November 1918 Image © Illustrated London News Group
Sir Horace Brook Marshall , Lord Mayor of London and resident at "Chimes". Pictures of his wife and daughter

On This Day 13 November 1913 the Streatham Tram crash took place in Mitcham Lane junction with Southcroft Road (Daily Chronicle)
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The tramcar's brakes failed and the driver, Albert Attridge escaped injury by jumping clear. Sydney Mellars the conductor was badly injured. Luckily there were no passengers on the tram. (Loobey and Brown and image Daily Chronicle)