A society which aims to raise the awareness and appreciation of its local area, and to maintain and improve the quality of life for all who live and work in Streatham.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Streatham Society
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Henry Robertson Bowers - SW16
{Beneath a photograph of Bowers:} Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers, 1883 - 191...
Tommy Trinder
Tommy Trinder, comedian, star of film, stage & radio, was born in this ho...
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Rainbow Corner
Club for the American forces in the UK during WW2. Also known as the American Red Cross Club. This is where those "oversexed, overpaid and over here" GIs hung out. From British History online: The...
1 memorial
Landsbergs boy scouts
"Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals): The First Hundred Years" 1984, Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney provides: "Already in the 1890s, there had been increasing interest in what would now be called yout...
1 memorial
Jak Beula Dodd
Born St Mary's Hospital Paddington, to parents who were both from Jamaica, John Bubeula Dodd is commonly known as Jak Beula. He is a British entrepreneur and cultural activist of Caribbean heritage...
2 memorials
Valerie Carter
Moved to Forty Hill in 1959. President of the Enfield Preservation Society, 1997 - her death. With a background in journalism and publishing she wrote/edited/assisted with a number of Enfield publi...
2 memorials
Mog Murphy
Eccentric landlady of the Turk's Head Wapping during WW2Â -Â stayed open all hours for service personnel seeking news of their loved ones.
1 memorial
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