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Yvonne Middleton née Cumbers- photographer

22/12/2023

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On This Day 22 December 1975 Madame Yevonde died
Yvonne Middleton née Cumbers- photographer, was born Yevonde Philone Cumbers on 5 January 1893 at The Cottage, St Julian's Road (today 331 Leigham Crt Road)

She was the daughter of Frederick Cumbers, a director of Johnstone and Cumbers, manufacturers of printing inks, and Ethel Westerton.
In 1910 while still a student on the co
ntinent, Yevonde joined the women's suffrage movement, promoting female emancipation. In defiance of her genteel upbringing she decided to take up a profession and, after seeing an advertisement for a photographer's apprentice in The Suffragette, settled upon photography.
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The People 22 December 1974. The Blackburns at the Streatham Odeon in Cinderella

22/12/2023

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December 21st, 2023

21/12/2023

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​Dorothy (Dora) Frances Montefiore

21/12/2023

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​Dorothy (Dora) Frances Montefiore (née Fuller) died On This Day 21 December 1933. 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
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The Streatham News 1907 Retrospect

21/12/2023

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The Streatham News "1907 Retrospect" On This Day 21 December 1907
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Including the Queen's visit and an advert for The Greyhound. Edwin Janes, the licensee of the Greyhound was a founding director of Chelsea FC- he owned the Butcher's Hook where the club was founded
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#ThrowbackThursday to 2010 and snow at Streatham Hill

21/12/2023

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Photo Graham Gower.
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Frederick Richard Frinneby

20/12/2023

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Frederick Richard Frinneby died On This Day 20th December 1870

He was a manufacturer of paint brushes and artist's materials from Exmouth Street in Clerkenwell and later Cannon Street

The family lived at 2 locations in Streatham, Elm Lodge and later adjacent Guildersfield
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(Source Marion Gower: Guildersfield, The History of a Streatham Country House- available while stocks last from the Streatham Society) https://www.streathamsociety.org.uk/places.html
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Wedding of Roger Moore and Doorn van Steyn

20/12/2023

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Streatham News On This Day 20 December 1946. The wedding of Roger Moore and Streatham's Doorn van Steyn. Both attended RADA and Doorn was also an Ice Skating star.
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The couple settled in Buckleigh Rd where Doorn's parents lived
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Jim Mercer and the Streatham and Brixton Chess Club cartoon in the The Streatham News  On This Day 19 December 1952

19/12/2023

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Engagement of Denis Thiel and Daphne Larlham

19/12/2023

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Streatham News On This Day 19 December 1941

The engagement of Denis Robert Thiel and Daphne Larlhan. Denis a Fleet Street photographer who owned South Thames Studios which operated at 2 locations in Streatham and Norbury and a resident of 35 Pollards Hill South.

Many of Denis' pictures were credited to the Press Association and one famous picture he took was is the one of the 88 bus in the crater at Balham
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The wedding took place at St Alban's, Faylands Ave and Daphne was living at 35 Pendle Road, Streatham and Denis 6 Hilldown Road Streatham

Picture supplied courtesy of Chris Williams. Denis couldn't resist taking a picture of his bride on the wedding day
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