"Cottage to Let" On This Day 7 August 1940 in the Tatler. Starring Alistair Sim and a young George Cole at the Streatham Hill Theatre

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In the early years of George Cole's career as a young actor he lived in Streatham, residing for three years in a flat above George Reeves Estate Agents’ shop at 267 Mitcham Lane (John W Brown)