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Streatham and Hub
Despite being a building of some architectural merit, Streatham Swimming Baths was deemed unsafe and demolished as part of the Streatham Hub regeneration project.

Streatham and Ice
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 ".
Streatham Ice Arena closed on 18 December 2011, having celebrated eighty years of operation in February 2011.
* Streatham Redskins, a British Ice Hockey team
That year, he decided to bring an end to The Divine David character, performing a farewell show at Streatham Ice Arena entitled The Divine David on Ice.

Streatham and Leisure
Streatham Leisure Centre had been closed since November 2009 due to health and safety concerns when part of the pool hall ceiling collapsed.

Streatham and Centre
The building survives today as the Computer Centre behind Streatham Library on which a plaque was placed by The Streatham Society on 29th March 2012 to commemorate the centenary of his death.
Even before this report had appeared, a plan was being formulated by Transport for London Street Management ( who are legally responsible for the road and pavement maintenance, signage and street furniture ) and the London Borough of Lambeth's Highways and Streatham Town Centre Management teams to improve Streatham High Road.

Streatham and former
The first Mayor of London and former head of the GLC Ken Livingstone spent most of his childhood in Streatham.
There has been a Streatham constituency of the House of Commons since 1918, when it was carved out of the former Wandsworth constituency.
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.
The coat of arms is that of the former Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth with the addition of two gold stars ( mullets ) in the second and third quarters of the shield to indicate the addition of the parishes of Clapham and Streatham.
Ian Michael " Chico " Hamilton ( born 31 October 1950 in Streatham ) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Tabrar is buried in the former VABF memorial at Streatham Park Cemetery, which has being restored by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
It is one of two former areas of common land in the former parish of Streatham.
Streatham Common was recently saved from threat of a " temporary " ice rick being built on it while Tesco's re-develop the site of the former Streatham ice rink by a vigorous local campaign.
Following further population decline, Lambeth was paired with Southwark in the next boundary review, and from the 1997 election, Streatham constituency gained areas around Tulse Hill from the former Norwood constituency, the remainder of which became part of Dulwich and West Norwood.

Streatham and their
The village remained largely unchanged until the 18th century, when the village's natural springs, known as Streatham Wells, were first celebrated for their health-giving properties.
The reputation of the spa, and improved turnpike roads, attracted wealthy City of London merchants and others to build their country residences in Streatham.
Several of her books feature photographs by John Walmsley taken in Streatham, which depict residents of Streatham in their daily lives.
The band spent their advance on constructing a studio in a house in Streatham.
I must give another Trait of his Tranquillity on a different Occasion ; he had built great Casks holding 1000 Hogsheads each, & was much pleased with their Profit & Appearance-One Day however he came down to Streatham as usual to dinner & after hearing & talking of a hundred trifles-but I forgot says he to tell you how one of my great Casks is burst & all the Beer run out.
She was so impressed with the group and their high standards, that she declared the group as her own, and as hence been known as the " 4th Streatham Sea Scout Group ( Princess Marie Louise's Own )" Photograph from 1919 of the Cub Scouts meeting Princess Marie Louise
The Exeter Halls, on Streatham Campus, are Hope Hall, Lopes Hall, Kilmorie Hall, Pennsylvania Court, Ransom Pickard, Lazenby and their annexes.
Following their 2006 review of parliamentary boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England made some minor changes to the Streatham constituency boundaries to bring them into line with Lambeth electoral ward boundaries
The two met at Oxford Brookes University before starting work together and launching their own recording studio in Streatham, South London.
The Oglander family was playing bridge in the drawing room of their house in Streatham the previous night when the French windows burst open and a woman staggered in, blood on her dress.

Streatham and replacement
The M23 was planned to relieve congestion on the A23 through Streatham, Thornton Heath, Purley and Coulsdon in south London and was originally intended to terminate in Streatham Vale at a junction with the controversial London Ringways Plan's Ringway 2 ( the intended replacement of the South Circular Road ( A205 )).

Streatham and with
Around 1995 the route was changed completely, with a new route to Sutton via Mitcham Junction continuing on a loop to Wimbledon rejoining itself south of Streatham replacing the West Croydon service.
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.
Streatham Park was later leased to Prime Minister Lord Shelburne, and was the venue for early negotiations with France that lead to the Peace Treaty of 1783.
Some estates, such as Telford Park to the west of Streatham Hill, were spaciously planned with facilities like tennis clubs.
This culminated in 1990 when the closure of Pratt's-a department store, which had grown from a Victorian draper's shop, and had been operated since the 1940s by the John Lewis Partnership-coincided with the opening of a large Sainsbury's supermarket 1 km south of the town centre, replacing an old, smaller Sainbury's store opposite Streatham Hill railway station.
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.
* The Streatham Society-local amenity society with active local history group
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.
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.
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.
Streatham sits somewhere between suburban London and inner-city Brixton with the partly suburban and partly built-up areas of Streatham, Streatham Hill and Streatham Vale.

Streatham and new
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.
In 1965 the borough was amalgamated with the Streatham and Clapham parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to form the new London Borough of Lambeth.
A new seat called ' Mitcham ' would cover Mitcham, the Streatham South electoral ward, Colliers Wood, Ravensbury and South Wimbledon.

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