Streatham ( ) is a district in south

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, England. Centred south of

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, it lies mostly within the

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, with some parts extending into the neighbouring

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. Streatham was in

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before becoming part of the

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in 1889, and then

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in 1965. The area is identified in the

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as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.

History

Streatham means "the hamlet on the street". The street in question, the

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, was the

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from the capital

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to the south coast near

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, today within

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. It is likely that the destination was a Roman port now lost to

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, which has been tentatively identified with 'Novus Portus' mentioned in

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's Geographia. The road is confusingly referred to as Stane Street (Stone Street) in some sources and diverges from the main London-Chichester road at

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. After the departure of the Romans, the main road through Streatham remained an important trackway. From the 17th century it was adopted as the main coach road to

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and

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, and then on to Newhaven and

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. In 1780 it then became the route of the

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road from London to

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, and subsequently became the basis for the modern A23. This road (and its traffic) have shaped Streatham's development. Streatham's first parish church, St Leonard's, was founded in

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times but an early Tudor tower is the only remaining structure pre-dating 1831 when the body of the church was rebuilt. The medieval parish covered a wider area including

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and Tooting Bec. The southern portion of what is now Streatham formed part of Tooting Graveney ancient parish. A charter states that in the late seventh century, land in Streatham and Tooting Graveney was granted by

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and

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, s.a. 762. or ''Friðewald''; d. 762 × 764) was an Chertsey Abbey, a grant which was later confirmed in the time of Athelstan in 933. Streatham appears in

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of 1086 as ''Estreham''. It was held by Bec-Hellouin Abbey (in

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) from Richard de Tonbrige. Its domesday assets were: 2 hides, 1 virgate and 6½ ploughlands of cultivated land and of

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and herbage (mixed grass and bracken). Annually it was assessed to render £4 5s 0d to its overlords.

Streatham Village and Streatham Wells

The village remained largely unchanged until the 18th century, when its natural springs, known as Streatham Wells, were first celebrated for their health-giving properties. The reputation of the spa, and improved

roads, attracted wealthy

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merchants and others to build their country residences in Streatham. In spite of London's expansion, a limited number of developments took place in the village in the second half of the nineteenth century, Streatham Vale sprung up to the South later still and the small parade of shops by Streatham Common Station has become known colloquially as Streatham Village. Wellfield Road, which had previously been known as Leigham Lane, was renamed to reflect its role as the main route from the centre of Streatham to one of the well locations. Another mineral well was located on the south side of Streatham Common, in an area that now forms part of The Rookery, where it can still be seen and visited within the formal gardens.

Streatham Park or Streatham Place

In the 1730s, Streatham Park, a Georgian country mansion, was built by the brewer Ralph Thrale on land he bought from the

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- the fourth Duke of Bedford. Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son

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, who with his wife

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entertained many of the leading literary and artistic characters of the day, most notably the lexicographer

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. The dining room contained 12 portraits of Henry's guests painted by his friend

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. These pictures were wittily labelled by

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as the Streatham Worthies. Streatham Park was later leased to Prime Minister Lord Shelburne, and was the venue for early negotiations with

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that led to the Peace Treaty of 1783. Streatham Park was demolished in 1863.

Park Hill

One large house that survives is Park Hill, on the north side of Streatham Common, rebuilt in the early 19th century for the Leaf family. It was latterly the home of

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, sugar refiner, benefactor of local libraries across south London, including

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, and founder of the

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Urbanisation

Development accelerated after the opening of Streatham Hill railway station on the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway in 1856. The other two railway stations followed within fifteen years. Some estates, such as ''Telford Park'' to the west of Streatham Hill, were spaciously planned with facilities like

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clubs. Despite the local connections to the Dukes of Bedford, there is no link to the contemporary Bedford Park in west London. Another generously sized development was Roupell Park, the area near Christchurch Road promoted by the Roupell family. Other streets adopted more conventional suburban layouts. Three more parish churches were built to serve the growing area, including Immanuel and St Andrew's (1854), St Peter's (1870) and St Margaret the Queen's (1889). There is now a mixture of buildings from all architectural eras of the past 200 years.

The inter-war period

After the

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Streatham developed as a location for entertainment, with the

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, three cinemas, the Locarno ballroom and Streatham Ice Rink all adding to its reputation as "the West End of South London". With the advent of electric tram services, it also grew as a shopping centre serving a wide area to the south. In the 1930s large numbers of

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were constructed along the High Road. These speculative developments were not initially successful. They were only filled when émigré communities began to arrive in London after leaving countries under the domination of

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. In 1932 the parish church of th
Holy Redeemer
was built in Streatham Vale to commemorate the work of

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Retail decline and recovery

Pratts department store, Streatham in 1978

In the 1950s Streatham had the longest and busiest shopping street in south London. Streatham became the site of the UK's first

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, when Express Dairies Premier Supermarkets opened its first store in 1951;

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subsequently opened its first supermarket in Streatham in 1955, but it closed down in 1963. However, a combination of factors led to a gradual decline through the 1970s and a more rapid decline in the 1980s. These included long term population movements out to

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and Sutton; the growth of heavy traffic on the A23 (main road from central London to

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and

); and a lack of redevelopment sites in the town centre. This culminated in 1990 when the closure of Pratts, which had grown from a Victorian draper's shop to a

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operated since the 1940s by the

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, coincided with the opening of a large

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supermarket half a mile south of the town centre, replacing an existing, smaller Sainbury's store opposite Streatham Hill railway station. Several recent additions, such as

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, Lidl and Peacocks, are located in new retail spaces on the site of Pratt's but, in common with other high streets, retail recovery has been slow, and a substantial proportion of vacant space has been taken by a growing number of restaurants, bars and coffee shops. In August 2011, Streatham was selected as one of the areas to benefit from Round 1 of the Mayor of London's ''Outer London Fund'', gaining £300,000. Later, Streatham was awarded a further £1.6 million, matched by another £1 million by Lambeth. The money from this fund was spent on improving streets and public spaces in Streatham. This includes the smartening up of shop fronts through painting and cleaning, replacing shutters and signage as well as helping to reveal facilities behind the high street such as The Stables Community Centre. Streatham Library has also undergone a £1.2 million refurbishment. The Tudor Hall behind the library was brought back into public use as ''The Mark Bennett Centre'' providing a meeting and performance space. Streatham Skyline introduced new lighting to highlight some of Streatham's more attractive buildings and monuments with the aim of improving safety and the overall attractiveness of the area.

Contemporary Streatham

In September 2002, Streatham High Road was voted the "Worst Street in Britain" in a poll organised by the

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. This largely reflected the dominance of through traffic along High Road. Plans for investment and regeneration had begun before the poll, with local amenity group the Streatham Society leading a successful partnership bid for funding from central government for environmental improvements. Work started in winter 2003–04 with the refurbishment of Streatham Green and repaving and relighting of the High Road between St Leonard's Church and the Odeon Cinema. In 2005 Streatham Green won the

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'London Spade' award for best public open space scheme in the capital. The poll was a catalyst for

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and Transport for London's Street Management to co-operate on a joint funding arrangement for further streetscape improvements, which benefited the section of the High Road between St Leonard's and Streatham station, and the stretch north of the Odeon as far as Woodbourne Avenue. The section between Woodbourne Avenue and Streatham Hill station was not completed until 2015. Any further improvements north of Streatham Hill have been halted because of TfL's budgetary shortfall. Streatham Festival was established in 2002. It has grown to a festival with over 50 events held in an array of locations, from bars to churches and parks to youth centres, attracting over 3,000 people. After several years of delay and controversy over phasing, construction started in the autumn of 2011 on the ''Streatham Hub'' - a major redevelopment next to Streatham railway station. The project was a joint development by Lambeth Council and

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. The project involved the demolition of

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, Streatham Leisure Centre and the former Streatham Bus Garage, and their replacement with a new leisure centre and a Tesco store with 250 flats above it. Streatham Leisure Centre closed in November 2009 due to health and safety concerns when part of the pool hall ceiling collapsed. Streatham Ice Arena closed on 18 December 2011, having celebrated eighty years of operation in February 2011. For two years a temporary ice rink was provided at Popes Road, Brixton. In November 2013, the new Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre opened to the public. The leisure centre houses a 60 m x 30 m indoor ice rink with 1,000 rink-side seats on the upper floors, a six-lane 25 m swimming pool, 13 m teaching pool, four-court sports hall and a gym with 100 stations. The jazz venue Hideaway continues Streatham's long entertainment tradition. It features live performances of jazz, funk, swing and

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as well as

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nights. It won the Jazz Venue/Promoter of the Year category in the 2011

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. On 2 February 2020 at around 14:00 GMT, Sudesh Mamoor Faraz Amman attacked and injured two people using a machete on Streatham High Street in what police declared a terrorist incident. Alongside the machete, Amman was also wearing a vest with components made to look like

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s. He was pursued by armed police and was fatally shot outside a Boots pharmacy. Streatham High Road also was host to Cat's Whiskers which later became Caesar's nightclub in the early 1990s through to 2005, which closed to become the site of the newly developed block of flats with a Marks and Spencer supermarket and Starbucks.

Administration

Streatham is covered by

and lies within the parliamentary constituency of the same name.

Demography

In the 2011 census, Streatham, comprising the wards of Streatham Hill, Streatham South and Streatham Wells, was

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(55.3%),

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(24.1%),

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(10%), Mixed/multiple ethnic groups (7.5%), and Other ethnic group (2.2%). The largest single ethnicity is White British (35.5%).

Education

Bishop Thomas Grant School Bishop Thomas Grant School (BTG) is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form, situated in the Streatham area of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The school is named after the first Bishop of Southwark, Thomas Gran ...

* Dunraven School * Woodmansterne School * Streatham & Clapham High School *

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* Sunnyhill Primary School * Hitherfield Primary School
Streatham Wells Primary School
* St Andrews RC Primary School * Goldfinch Primary School (Formerly Eardley Primary School) * Penwortham Primary School (Wandsworth) * St Leonard's Primary School * Broomwood Hall Lower School * Henry Cavendish Primary School (Streatham campus)

Sport

Streatham RedHawks Streatham IHC (formerly Streatham Redskins and RedHawks) is a British ice hockey club based in Streatham, London, England. Amongst the oldest British ice hockey teams still in existence, they were founded in 1932 as Streatham, and added the nam ...

(

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) *

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(

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) * South London Storm (

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) *

Streatham-Croydon RFC The Streatham-Croydon Rugby Football Club, is a rugby union club, founded in 1871, based at Frant Road, Thornton Heath, in the London Borough of Croydon, south London. Streatham-Croydon currently play in Surrey 4, Counties Surrey 4. The club's tea ...

Places of worship

* St Leonard's Church (Church of England) - the historic parish church * English Martyrs' Church (Roman Catholic) - located opposite St Leonard's - it is the second of Streatham's "twin spires" * Christ Church, Streatham Hill (Church of England) * Holy Redeemer Church, Streatham Vale (Church of England) * Immanuel and St Andrew Church, Streatham (Church of England) * St Margaret the Queen, Cricklade Avenue, Streatham Hill (Church of England) *

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(Church of England) * St Simon and St Jude, Hillside Road, Streatham Hill (Roman Catholic) * Streatham Baptist Church, Lewin Road * Hambro Road Baptist Church * Streatham Methodist Church, Riggindale Road * New Covenant Church, Pendennis Road * Islamic Centre, Estreham Road (Shi’a) * Streatham Friends Meeting House, Roupell Park Estate (Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)) * Streatham Mosque, Mitcham Lane (Sunni) * Streatham Hill Mosque, Norfolk House Road (Sunni) * South London Synagogue, Leigham Court Road (United Synagogue) * South London Liberal Synagogue, Prentis Road (Liberal Judaism) * Hitherfield Road Baptist Church Streatham * St James' Streatham, Mitcham Lane (SW16 6NT) * Mitcham Lane Baptist Church, Mitcham Lane (SW16 6NT) * St Albans - Evangelical, Pretoria Road (SW16 6RR) * Streatham Central Church, Wellfield Road (SW16 2BP)

Notable residents

Among the people who were born, lived or worked in Streatham, or are otherwise associated with the area are: * Arthur Anderson, P&O founder, and Liberal Radical MP *

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, linguist * Arnold Bax, composer *

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, television presenter *

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, actress and TV presenter *

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, actor * Ian Bostridge, Tenor *

Mark Bostridge Mark Bostridge is a British writer and critic, known for his historical biographies. He was educated at Westminster School and read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, from 1979 to 1984. At Oxford, he was awarded the Gladstone Memorial P ...

, Writer *

Bernard Braden Bernard Chastey Braden (16 May 1916 – 2 February 1993) was a Canadian-born British actor and comedian, who is best known for his appearances in UK television and radio shows. Life Braden was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and educated ...

, Actor and TV personality *

Druce Brandt Druce Robert Brandt (20 October 1887 – 6 July 1915) was an English people, English first-class cricketer, academic and British Army officer. The son of Robert E. Brandt and Florence Brandt, he was born at Streatham in October 1887. He was edu ...

, cricketer *

Henry Robertson Bowers Henry Robertson Bowers (29 July 1883 – c. 29 March 1912) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913, all of whom died during their return from the South Pole. Early life Bowers was b ...

, explorer *

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, philosopher *

Charles Burney Charles Burney (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician. He was the father of the writers Frances Burney and Sarah Burney, of the explorer James Burney, and of Charles Burney, a classicist a ...

, composer and music historian *

Frances Burney Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post as "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklen ...

, novelist and playwright * Simon Callow, actor * Naomi Campbell, model *

Geoffrey Cather Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather (11 October 1890 – 2 July 1916) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ...

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-winning soldier *

Christopher Chessun Christopher Thomas James Chessun (born 5 August 1956) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2011, he has been Bishop of Southwark in the Church of England. Early life and education Chessun is a twin and was born on 5 August 1956. He was educated ...

, bishop of Southwalk- official residence in Streatham * Nicholas Clay, actor *

Lionel Crabb Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Kenneth Phillip Crabb, (28 January 1909 – presumed dead 19 April 1956), known as Buster Crabb, was a Royal Navy frogman and diver who vanished during a reconnaissance mission for MI6 around a Soviet cruiser bert ...

, George Medal recipient * Aleister Crowley *

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, rapper * Carl Davis, composer *

Peter Davison Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett (born 13 April 1951), known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He made his television acting debut in 1975 and became famous in 1978 as Tristan ...

, actor *

Kevin Day Kevin Day (born 3 May 1961 in London) is a British stand up comedian, comedy writer and sports presenter. He came to prominence in the British alternative comedy stand up scene of the late eighties and early nineties, playing clubs like The Comed ...

, comedian * Henry Doulton, Founder Royal Doulton *

Siobhan Dowd Siobhan Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British writer and activist. The last book she completed, ''Bog Child'', posthumously won the 2009 Carnegie Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's best book for ...

, author *

William Dring Dennis William Dring (26 January 1904 – 29 September 1990) was a British portraitist. Early life Dring was born in Streatham, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1922 and 1925, where he won several prizes and sc ...

, Portrait Artist, RA * William Dyce, artist, professor *

Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, born Hester Maria Thrale (17 September 1764 – 31 March 1857), was a British literary correspondent and intellectual. She was the eldest child of Hester Thrale, diarist, author and confidante of Sam ...

, literary correspondent * Paul England, actor, director, and author, born in Streatham * Edward Foster, Victoria Cross *

John Galliano John Charles Galliano (born 28 November 1960) is a British fashion designer from Gibraltar. He was the creative director of his eponymous label John Galliano and French fashion houses Givenchy and Dior. Since 2014, Galliano has been the creat ...

, fashion designer *

George Galloway George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer who is currently leader of the Workers Party of Britain, serving since 2019. Between 1987 and 2010, and then between 2012 and 2015, Galloway was a Member o ...

, former MP *

David Garrick David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Sa ...

, actor *

Edward Stanley Gibbons Edward Stanley Gibbons (21 June 1840 – 17 February 1913) was an English stamp dealer and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the famous Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue and other stamp-related books and magazines. Early life Ed ...

, philatelist *

Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is best known for his novel ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1766), his pastoral poem ''The Deserted Village'' (1770), and his pl ...

, novelist, playwright and poet *

Grooverider Raymond Bingham (born 16 April 1967 in Streatham, London, England), better known as Grooverider, is a British drum and bass DJ. He and DJ partner Fabio are regarded as "originators" of the scene.

, DJ *

Isidore Gunsberg Isidore ( ; also spelled Isador, Isadore and Isidor) is an English and French masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name ''Isídōros'' (Ἰσίδωρος) and can literally be translated to "gift of Isis." The name has survived ...

, Chess master *

David Gurr David Hugh Courtney Gurr is a Canadian writer and author of literary novels and political thrillers. He was born William Le Breton Harvey Brisbane-Bedwell in 1936 in London, England but his name was changed by adoption in 1941. He was educated at ...

, author *

Derek Guyler Deryck Bower Guyler (29 April 1914 – 7 October 1999) was an English actor, best remembered for his portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as ''Please Sir!'' and ''Sykes''. Early life Guyler was born in Wallase ...

, actor * Jeremy Hardy, comedian * David Harewood, actor *

Sir Norman Hartnell Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO (12 June 1901 – 8 June 1979) was a leading British fashion designer, best known for his work for the ladies of the royal family. Hartnell gained the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth in 1940, an ...

, royal dressmaker * Patricia Hayes, actor *

Hy Hazell Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins (4 October 1919 – 10 May 1970), stage name Hy Hazell, was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a contralto singer and film actress. AllMusic described her as "an exuberant comic actor and lively ...

, actress *

Sir Arthur Helps Sir Arthur Helps (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle and an early advocate of animal rights. Biography The youngest son of London merchant Thomas Helps, Arthur Hel ...

, Writer *

Benjamin Hoadley Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy. Li ...

, Bishop *

Glyn Hodges Glyn Peter Hodges (born 30 April 1963) is a Welsh football coach and former professional player who is assistant manager at Bradford City. During his playing career he played for Wimbledon, Newcastle United, Watford, Crystal Palace, Sheffield Un ...

, professional footballer and manager *

Roy Hudd Roy Hudd, OBE (16 May 1936 – 15 March 2020) was an English comedian, actor, presenter, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment. Early life Hudd was born in Croydon on 16 May 1936 to Evalina "Evie" (née ...

, comedian and TV personality * Rachel Hurd-Wood, actor * Eddie Izzard, comedian and actor * David Jacobs, TV and radio presenter * Alan Johnson, MP *

Frederick Henry Johnson Frederick Henry Johnson (15 August 1890 – 26 November 1917) was a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonw ...

, Victoria Cross *

Dr Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford D ...

, author and lexicographer * Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London * Zardad Khan,

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warlord * Mark King, musician *

Winifred Knights Winifred Margaret Knights (5 June 1899–7 February 1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are ''The Marriage at Cana'' produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa a ...

, artist *

Arthur Moore Lascelles Arthur Moore Lascelles VC MC (12 October 1880 – 7 November 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth ...

, Victoria Cross *

Benny Lee Benny Lee (11 August 1916 – 9 December 1995) was a Scottish comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a television and film career. Early life Lee was born on 11 August 1916 to a Jewish family in The G ...

, entertainer *

Ken Livingstone Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office i ...

, former MP and former Mayor of London *

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Laurence Roderick Llewelyn-Bowen (; born 11 March 1965) is an English interior designer and television personality best known for appearing on the BBC programme '' Changing Rooms''. Name He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn", and th ...

, interior designer *

John Major Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997, and as Member of Parliament ...

, Prime Minister 1990–97, lived at Primrose Court 1969-74 *

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, Lord Mayor of London *

Ken Mackintosh Kenneth Victor Mackintosh (4 August 1919 – 22 November 2005) was an English saxophonist, composer and bandleader. He accompanied singers such as Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro. Early life Mackintosh was born in Liversedge, Y ...

, dance band leader * Donald McGill,

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artist * Cathy McGowan, television presenter * Paul Merton, comedian *

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, actor *

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, TV Presenter *

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, nobel prizewinner literature *

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, barrister and civil rights activist *

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, former MP and London Mayoral Candidate *

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, Baroness and British Spy *

Cynthia Payne Cynthia Diane Payne (née Paine; 24 December 193215 November 2015) was an English brothel keeper and party hostess who made headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, when she was convicted of running a brothel at 32 Ambleside Avenue, in Streatham, a s ...

, celebrity

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, aviation pioneer *

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, TV presenter * Patricia Plunkett, actor * Steve Reed, MP *

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, artist * Geoffrey Rimbault, first-class cricketer and British Army officer * Catherine Russell, actor * Arthur Sanders, WW2 RAF Commander, Air Chief Marshal * Duncan Sandys, Lord, MP * Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, Law Lord *

Lord Shelburne William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, (2 May 17377 May 1805; known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history), was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first ...

, prime minister * Alan Simpson, Comedy script writer * Arnold Spencer-Smith, explorer *

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, actor and TV presenter *

, author and patron of the arts *

, MP and brewer *

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, actress * John Torode, chef and TV presenter * Stan Tracey, jazz musician *

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, comedian * Leonora Tyson, suffragist *

Chuka Umunna Chuka Harrison Umunna (; born 17 October 1978) is a British retired politician who served as Member of Parliament (UK), Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham (UK Parliament constituency), Streatham from 2010 United Kingdom general election, ...

, former

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and Liberal Democrat MP *

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, author *

June Whitfield Dame June Rosemary Whitfield (11 November 1925 – 29 December 2018) was an English radio, television, and film actress. Her big break was a lead in the radio comedy ''Take It from Here'', which aired on the BBC Light Programme in 1953. ...

, actress *

W. P. D. Wightman Dr William Persehouse Delisle Wightman FRSE (1899–1983) was a 20th-century British philosophical author. He was President of the British Society for the History of Science. Life He was born on 4 June 1899 in Streatham Hill in London, the son ...

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(1899-1983), scientific author *

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(1798-1881), architect, artist and stockbroker *

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, musician * Andy Zaltzman, comedian

Nearest places

Brixton Brixton is a district in south London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton experienced a rapid rise in population during the 19th ce ...

Colliers Wood Colliers Wood is an area in south west London, England, in the London Borough of Merton. It is a mostly residential area, but has a busy high street around Colliers Wood tube station on London Underground's Northern line. The high street is part ...

* Clapham Park * Crystal Palace *

Furzedown Furzedown is a ward, in both the districts of Streatham (Streatham West and part of Streatham Park) and Tooting, wholly in the Tooting Parliamentary Constituency, within the London Borough of Wandsworth in South West London. It is a mainly resi ...

Herne Hill Herne Hill is a district in South London, approximately four miles from Charing Cross and bordered by Brixton, Camberwell, Dulwich, and Tulse Hill. It sits to the north and east of Brockwell Park and straddles the boundary between the boroughs ...

* Mitcham * Norbury *

Pollards Hill Pollards Hill is a small residential district straddling south London boroughs of Croydon and Merton between Mitcham, Norbury and Thornton Heath. The boundary of the two boroughs is a street named Recreation Way. No roads directly cross the Cro ...

* Thornton Heath *

Tooting Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth and partly in the London Borough of Merton. It is located south south-west of Charing Cross. History Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times ...

Upper Norwood Upper Norwood is an area of south London, England, within the London Boroughs of Bromley, Croydon, Lambeth and Southwark. It is north of Croydon and the eastern part of it is better known as the Crystal Palace area. Upper Norwood is situated ...

West Norwood West Norwood is a largely residential area of south London within the London Borough of Lambeth, located 5.4 miles (8.7 km) south south-east of Charing Cross. The centre of West Norwood sits in a bowl surrounded by hillsides on its east ...

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Transport

Railway stations

Streatham has three railway stations: , , and . There are also stations at nearby and .

Tube stations

The nearest

tube Tube or tubes may refer to: * ''Tube'' (2003 film), a 2003 Korean film * ''The Tube'' (TV series), a music related TV series by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom * "Tubes" (Peter Dale), performer on the Soccer AM television show * Tube (band), a ...

stations are at ,on the Victoria line, and , on the

Northern line The Northern line is a London Underground line that runs from North London to South London. It is printed in black on the Tube map. The Northern line is unique on the Underground network in having two different routes through central London, two ...

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* {{Authority control Districts of the London Borough of Lambeth Areas of London Major centres of London History of the London Borough of Lambeth

History

Streatham Village and Streatham Wells

Streatham Park or Streatham Place

Park Hill

Urbanisation

The inter-war period

Retail decline and recovery

Contemporary Streatham

Administration

Demography

Education

Sport

Places of worship

Notable residents

Nearest places

Transport

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