The Sphere On This Day 23 December 1933 Image © Illustrated London News Group
 John Mallcott III was a Stonemason, part of the Mallcott dynasty of stonemasons. He built the National Gallery. **He died On This Day 22 December 1850**
He lived at Carlton Villa, 54 Streatham Hill (source Census 1841) which was also known as Stone House. Demolished in 1927 for the errection of Telford Court. *He was responsible for the demolition of a number of London's old buildings during the course of his trade and is reported to have built his Streatham home from stones reclaimed from various buildings he had demolished. including masonry from the Royal Mews which was reputed to date back to the time of James the first *(John W Brown) John Mallcott was was apprenticed to Samuel Ireland in 1792 and became free in 1799. He married Louisa Susannah Grace at Grey Friars church on 30 August 1804. By 1809 he had been taken into the family business and in 1811 he received a press notice for his monumental tablet to William Hawes, founder of the Humane Society. The Gentleman’s Magazine illustrated the work, described as a ‘neat and elegant’ slab with a ‘small but correct’ portrait-medallion of Hawes. The magazine hailed the sculptor as ‘an ingenious young artist’ (GM 1811 vol 81, pt I, 307, 313). The firm produced numerous monuments and tablets over the next 30 years, described by Gunnis as ‘mostly dull’, though he considered the monument to Sir Wharton Amcotts , designed by William Kinnaird, to be ‘really rather a charming work’. In 1821 the Gentleman’s Magazine illustrated Mallcott’s monument to Robert Wells , a Greek stele with palmette brackets and acroteria, and relief carvings of the two sides of a medal awarded to the deceased by the Royal Society. On the engraving Mallcott is described as a ‘Statuary’ of 12 Newgate Street, so he clearly took this aspect of the business seriously. In 1824, he provided carved ornaments for the new Post Office The firm continued to be involved principally in masonry work. Mallcott succeeded his forebears as mason to the College of Physicians, he became the principal mason working on the new National Gallery and the Insolvent Debtors' Court in Lincoln’s Inn Fields and in 1820 he was employed at Stationers’ Hall. In 1823-4 he built the Lombard Street premises of the bankers, Glyn Mills and Co at a cost of £2,278. In 1830-31, he was warden of the Masons’ Company, and in 1832 he became master. In 1845 The Builder illustrated a view of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, which the firm had cased in Portland stone ten years earlier, and referred to Mallcott as a ‘practical mason who has been engaged for fifty years in repairing old Churches and raising new buildings’ (Builder 1845, 78). Mallcott’s will was proved in January 1851. He left houses in Newgate Street and Streatham Hill, as well as a lease on stonemasonry premises in West Street in the parish of Saint Sepulchre. To his second wife, Mary Ann, he left household goods and ‘detached articles of sculpture,’ as well as ‘all machinery, implements, utensils, plant, stock ... employed by me in my business of a stone-mason’. His various premises were left in trust for the seven children of his second marriage. (Source extracts A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851)  The Sacred Opera On This Day22 December 1933 in the Norwood News
Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.  The Right Reverend Ronald Bowlby died On This Day 21 December 2019.
He was an Anglican Bishop and leader in the movement for the ordination of women. He lived at Bishops's House in Garrad's Road, Streatham; the official residence of the Bishop of Southwark The seventh Bishop of Southwark, Ronald Bowlby (1980-1991) had at one time been Vicar of Croydon and it was during his episcopate that the 32 parishes of the Croydon area were added to the Diocese. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College Oxford.  On This Day 21 December Dame Rebecca West was born
West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield on December 21, 1892 in London, to Charles and Isabella Fairfield. The family moved to 21 Streatham Place before Cecily was two years old, and she later reimagined the house in her novel The Fountain Overflows. Novelist, journalist, critic, and feminist, Dame Rebecca West (1892-1983) is considered one of the finest prose writers in twentieth-century England. She wrote under the penname Rebecca West. She has since become legendary, not only as an outspoken feminist and mistress of H.G. Wells, but also as the prolific author of novels like The Return of the Soldier, which helped to define an era. By mid-career in 1947, West was featured on the cover of Time and the story hailed her as “indisputably the world’s No. 1 woman writer.” Her wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_West  Dorothy (Dora) Frances Montefiore (née Fuller) was born 20 December 1851. Daughter of Francis Fuller and Mary Ann Fuller (née Drew). A direct descendants of the Drew family of Streatham An English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Her name and picture (and those of 58 other women's suffrage supporters) are on the plinth of the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, unveiled in 2018   Programme of an operetta to be performed by boys from the Streatham Grammar School at Streatham Town Hall On This Day 20th December 1893 and directed by Miss Gertrude Gallagher with one penny admission.
Headmaster of the school was Herbert Large and fees were 1 1/2 - 3 guineas per term and facilities included a technical workshop, laboratory and military drill. (Lambeth Archives)  Lena Halliday (Selena Heinkey) died On This Day 19 December 1937. An actress born in Balham and a resident of 14 Fernwood Road and 109 Barcombe Road Streatham.
Best known for After the Verdict (1929), When Knights Were Bold (1929) and Inquest (1931) Seen her here with another Streatham resident Dame Marie Tempest of 24 Woodbourne Avenue in the Tatler 13 May 1908 Image © Illustrated London News Group  Doing the Impossible. Charles Chaperlin opening the Stork Club in Streatham. The Stage On This Day 19 December 1957 Image © The Stage Media Company Limited   On This Day 18th December 2011 the Streatham Ice Arena closed Originally opened on 26 February 1931 by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Lt Col. A. Bellamy, and the Member of Parliament for Streatham, Sir William Lane- Mitchell An Olympic-sized ice rink and swimming pool opened on 18 November 2013. The site also featured a new Tesco supermarket and residential complex For a nostalgic trip to the Streatham Ice rink view this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS4jt5W5gvs Images Lambeth Archives 1933 and Kevin kelly 2010  |
