On this day Friday 18th July 1919 around 7,000 Streatham school children gathered on Tooting Bec Common for a "Great Peace Fete" to celebrate the official end of the First World War.
The children were presented with the Streatham Peace Medal, suspended on a red white and blue ribbon, as a memento of the occasion. The children then sang the National Anthem accompanied by the local Fire Brigade band, and there were sports and entertainments including Punch and Judy; a musical clown; a conjurer, a ventriloquist, a picnic lunch and numerous other attractions.
The Fete concluded with a prize-giving and three cheers for Streatham's MP, Mr William Lane Mitchell, who had generously donated the Peace medals the children were all proudly wearing.
(John W Brown for Heart Streatham)
The children were presented with the Streatham Peace Medal, suspended on a red white and blue ribbon, as a memento of the occasion. The children then sang the National Anthem accompanied by the local Fire Brigade band, and there were sports and entertainments including Punch and Judy; a musical clown; a conjurer, a ventriloquist, a picnic lunch and numerous other attractions.
The Fete concluded with a prize-giving and three cheers for Streatham's MP, Mr William Lane Mitchell, who had generously donated the Peace medals the children were all proudly wearing.
(John W Brown for Heart Streatham)
