The first sanctioned bout between women was in November 1998 at Streatham in London, between Jane Couch and Simona Lukic.

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.

The poll was a catalyst for Lambeth London Borough Council and Transport for London's Street Management to co-operate on a joint funding arrangement for further streetscape improvements, which benefited The Dip between St Leonard's and Streatham station and the stretch north of the Odeon as far as Woodbourne Avenue.

In between the two are built-up and inner-city districts of Brixton, Brixton Hill, Streatham Hill, Clapham, Clapham Park, Herne Hill, Stockwell and Kennington which are each at different stages of gentrification and have elements of suburban and urban settlement while Vauxhall and South Lambeth are central districts being redeveloped with high density business and residential properties.

The nearest mainline railway station to the commercial centre of Mitcham is Mitcham Eastfields located between Mitcham Junction and Streatham which opened on 2 June 2008.

* 2tph ( trains per hour ) between London Victoria and Sutton via Streatham Hill and West Croydon

Brixton Hill is the name given to a 1 km section of road between Brixton and Streatham Hill in south London, England.

The game was played between the London Ravens and the Streatham Olympians and the low turn-out of 8, 000 spectators meant that the Summerbowl was not repeated in subsequent years.

Remnants of a metalled ford across the stream were found further south at Hermitage Bridge on the River Graveney which forms part of the boundary between Norbury and Streatham, before flowing on to the River Wandle, then the River Thames.

Jamie Wednesday were a British 1980s jangle pop band, formed in Streatham, South London in 1984, that released eight songs on two records between 1985 and 1986.

The maximum line speed is 50 mph, except for 20 mph restrictions at Clapham Junction, Streatham Junction, Mitcham Junction, Raynes Park, West Croydon, Sutton and Epsom ; 30 mph restrictions at Dorking and the approach to London Victoria ; and two 75 mph sections, between Box Hill and Westhumble and Dorking, and between Dorking and Holmwood.

The Lido is on Tooting Bec Common between Tooting and Streatham.

Andrew Sandham ( 6 July 1890 in Streatham, London – 20 April 1982 in Westminster, London ) was an English cricketer, a right-handed batsman who played 14 Test matches between 1921 and 1930.

On October 26, 1938, the first ice hockey game to be televised anywhere in the world was played at Harringay between the Racers and Streatham.

As part of its suburban expansion programme, the company built a line from Peckham Rye running roughly parallel to the main line, through East Dulwich, Tulse Hill, Streatham and Mitcham to Sutton and Epsom Downs, which opened in October 1868.

The seat is broadly suburban, with terraced houses and low-rise estates in Tooting and Streatham at the Northern end of the seat.

Streatham Park is an area of suburban southwest London.

The Streatham Park mansion was demolished in 1863 and the estate and adjacent fields were laid out for suburban development.

The UK's first supermarket under the new Premier Supermarkets brand opened in Streatham, South London, taking ten times as much per week as the average British general store of the time.

June Rosemary Whitfield was born in Streatham, London in 1925.

The station serves routes to London Victoria, Blackfriars and London Bridge, and by changing at Streatham 5 minutes away, makes St Albans and Bedford and Luton airport within reach by direct trains.

Streatham () is a district in South London, England, located in the London Borough of Lambeth.

The reputation of the spa, and improved turnpike roads, attracted wealthy City of London merchants and others to build their country residences in Streatham.

It was latterly the home of Sir Henry Tate, sugar refiner, benefactor of local libraries across south London, including Streatham Library, and founder of the Tate Gallery at Millbank.

Development accelerated after the opening of Streatham Hill railway station on the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway in 1856.

After the First World War Streatham developed as a location for entertainment, with Streatham Hill Theatre ( now a bingo hall ), three cinemas, the Locarno ballroom ( latterly Caesar's nightclub, which closed in 2010 ) and Streatham Ice Rink all adding to its reputation as " the West End of South London ".

In the 1950s Streatham had the longest and busiest shopping street in south London.

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.

In 2005 Streatham Green won the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association ' London Spade ' award for best public open space scheme in the capital.

The first Mayor of London and former head of the GLC Ken Livingstone spent most of his childhood in Streatham.

It was formed in 1965 from the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and much of the former area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth, but excluding Clapham and most of Streatham, both of which were transferred to the London Borough of Lambeth.

Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Lambeth, when drawing up boundaries for the London Boroughs, the Government had initially suggested that Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth and the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark should be merged to form a new borough, with the southern and eastern section of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth ( including Clapham, Streatham and Tooting ) forming another.

Other nearby areas include Tooting, Streatham, Brixton and Battersea.

Perhaps because of its good late night transport connections to the West End, and the availability of flats as well as family houses, Streatham and nearby Brixton Hill have attracted entertainers to live in the area since the days of music hall.

Young held that in Clapham and Streatham, people must be more familiar with Brixton than with Wandsworth, and therefore recommended that a new borough be formed from the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth together with six wards and parts of two others from the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth.

The largest shopping areas are ( in order of size ) Streatham, Brixton, Vauxhall, Clapham and West Norwood.

The wards are Bishop's, Brixton Hill, Clapham Common, Clapham Town, Coldharbour, Ferndale, Gipsy Hill, Herne Hill, Knight's Hill, Larkhall, Oval, Prince's, Saint Leonard's, Stockwell, Streatham Hill, Streatham South, Streatham Wells, Thornton, Thurlow Park, Tulse Hill, Vassall.

He gave £ 42, 500 for Liverpool University, £ 3, 500 for Bedford College for Women, and £ 5, 000 for building a free library in Streatham ; additional provisions were made for libraries in Balham, South Lambeth, and Brixton.

At some stage it was renamed Streatham and Brixton Hill before finally settling with its present name in 1869.

South of London in 1800, the map shows Kennington, Camberwell, Peckham, Clapham, Brixton, Stockwell, Streatham Hill, Tooting, Dulwich, Brockley, Sydenham, Lewisham and Deptford

Brixton Hill and Streatham Hill form part of the traditional main London to Brighton road ( A23 ).

Traffic for Eastbourne begins along the A203 through Vauxhall to reach its junction with the A23 road before it travels southwards through Brixton and Streatham passing the site of the old Croydon Aerodrome until, at Purley Cross Junction, south of Purley, the A22 is reached.

Image: Streatham & Tulse Hill Hastings & St Leonards RJD 100. jpg | A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines through Brixton

Stone, who also designed subsequent Astoria venues at Brixton ( now the Brixton Academy ), Old Kent Road, Finsbury Park and Streatham.

*** includes Deaneries of Brixton, Clapham, Lambeth North, Lambeth South, Streatham, and Merton

* Brixton Hill, Clapham Common, St Leonard's, Streatham Hill, Streatham South, Streatham Wells, Thornton and Tulse Hill.