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Miss V Sugden retaining the British Women's Ice Skating Championship at Streatham Ice Rink18/12/2021
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On This Day 17 December 1926 Patricia Plunkett was born at The Streatham Manor Nursing home 11-13 Leigham Avenue. Today Manor Court is on the site.
She was an actress trained at RADA, known for Bond Street (1948), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) and For Them That Trespass (1949). She was married to Tim Turner. She died on October 13, 1974 in London. Princess Katharina Alexandra Dorothea Fürstin von Lieven was born On This Day 17 December 1785
A Baltic German noblewoman and the wife of Prince Christoph Heinrich von Lieven, who served as the Russian ambassador to London between 1812 and 1834. She became an influential figure among many of the diplomatic, political, and social circles of 19th-century Europe. Princess Lieven cultivated friendships with the foremost statesmen of her day while living in London. Her husband Christoph Heinrich Fürst von Lieven leased "Streatham Park" from the Thrales at £600 per year. He cancelled his lease on 14 March 1815, because he could no longer afford the rental. Image Dorothea Khristoforovna Lieven (née Benckendorff), Princess Lieven by William Bromley, after Sir Thomas Lawrence ©National Portrait Gallery Creative Commons License Born on this day 16th December in 1946, Diane Towler-Green, 4 x World Champion, pioneer of the sport of Ice Dance and Coach at Streatham.
Diane & Bernard Ford were the Gold Medalists in Grenoble when it was a Demonstration sport (Huriye) Advert for an appearance of The Fisk University Jubilee Singers, On This Day 16 and 17 December 1897, at the Streatham Town Hall
(Look and Learn) The tradition of excellence at Fisk has developed out of a history marked by struggle and uncertainty. Fisk's world-famous Jubilee Singers® originated as a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville on October 6, 1871, taking the entire contents of the University treasury with them for travel expenses, praying that through their music they could somehow raise enough money to keep the doors of their debt-ridden school open. The singers struggled at first, but before long, their performances so electrified audiences that they traveled throughout the United States and Europe, moving to tears audiences that included William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Ulysses S. Grant, William Gladstone, Mark Twain, Johann Strauss, and Queen Victoria. To this day, each October 6, Fisk pauses to observe the anniversary of the singers' departure from campus in 1871. The contemporary Jubilee Singers, a Grammy recipient group, perform in a University convocation — and conclude the day's ceremonies with a pilgrimage to the grave sites of the original singers, where once again, the old songs are sung at the burial places of their first performers.(Fisk University) Norwood News On This Day 15 December 1939
Vacca Social Club- staff of PB Cow Ltd of Streatham. Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. Jen Latona was born 15 December 1881. She lived at 25 and 9 Christchurch Road
Jen Latona, real name Emma Jane Letty Carter, was born in 1881 in Birmingham. By the age of sixteen she was appearing in music halls under the name of Jennie Gabrielle. Jennie married an American performer twenty-five years her senior, born Benjamin Franklyn Titus, whose stage name was Frank Latona. Jennie Gabrielle became Jen Latona. Jen and Frank worked together as a double act with music, song, gags and repartee. Frank died in 1930 and Jen retired a few years later. She lived in Streatham in London and when she died in 1955 her home and possessions were put up for auction, including a Schrieber grand piano and a souvenir programme of Sarah Bernhardt at the London Coliseum in 1913. The proceeds of the sale went to the Variety Artists Benevolent Fund. (Into the Limelight) Harry May Hemsley was born On This Day 14 December 1877. An English music hall and radio comedian.
A resident of 8 Fernthorpe Road and 15 Telford Court He is best known as the host of the popular radio show Ovaltiney's Concert Party on Radio Luxembourg. He was also active as a cartoonist (Image Lambiel Comiclopedia) This appeared in the Streatham News On this Day 14th December 1979
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AuthorMark Bery, Secretary Streatham Society Archives
March 2024
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