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4 unusual facts about Streatham


Are You Ready for Love?

The film was shot entirely on location in London over 5 weeks and encompassed some of London’s most celebrated landmarks, and shooting location included the streets of Soho, Central Hall in Westminster, Hampstead Heath, Streatham ice rink and the South Bank.

Edmund Tylney

Edmund Tilney's father was buried on 10 September 1541 in St. Leonard's Church Streatham.

Streatham, Victoria

In the 1840s the site was known as Fiery Creek, after the waterway by which it is located, but was named after Streatham, London, England, in 1852.

Swansea Uplands RFC

The first tour was undertaken in 1921 to London with victories over London Wasps and Streatham and the following season, Parkhurst and Saracens.


Battersea Grammar School

It was established in Battersea in 1875 by the Sir Walter St John Trust and moved to larger premises in Streatham in 1936.

Fred Godfrey

They were married in Treherbert; after which they moved to 6 Streatham Place, London.

Streatham Campus

Washington Singer (School of Psychology), named after Washington Singer, a generous donor to the University College of the South West of England at the beginning of the development of the Streatham Campus

Streatham High Road

It begins in the north at Streatham Hill railway station, being an end-on junction with Streatham Hill and continues south to Norbury where the A23 becomes London Road.

Streatham Park

Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife Hester Thrale entertained many of the leading literary and artistic characters of the day, most notably the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who was fond of a summer house in the grounds.

Tooting Bec

It is named after Bec Abbey in Normandy, which was given land in this area (then part of the Streatham parish) after the Norman Conquest.

Tooting Commons

Tooting Bec Common — the northern and eastern part of the commons — was within the historic parish of Streatham, and takes its name from the area's links to Bec Abbey at Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy.

Wathawurrung language

It was spoken by 15 clans south of the Werribee River and the Bellarine Peninsula to Streatham.


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