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. From around 1888 to 1915, St Pancras accommodated aged and infirm males in a branch workhouse at Streatham Hill known as the St Anne's Home. The dining room contained 12 portraits of Henry's guests painted by his friend Joshua Reynolds. On 22 July 2005, following the 21 July 2005 London bombings, Stockwell gained notoriety as the scene of the shooting by police of an innocent Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, on a tube train. Any further improvements north of Streatham Hill have been halted because of TfL's budgetary shortfall. For the town in Victoria, Australia, see. See - for the first time online - how they showed September 7, 1940, the first 24 hours of attacks Among the people who were born, lived or worked in Streatham, or are otherwise associated with the area are: This article is about the suburb in London, England. As he brings a one-man show to Wales, Kathryn Williams reveals some facts about the much-loved actor. [15] The money from this fund was spent on improving streets and public spaces in Streatham. [7], In the 1730s, Streatham Park, a Georgian country mansion, was built by the brewer Ralph Thrale on land he bought from the Lord of the Manor - the fourth Duke of Bedford. 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. [citation needed]. These speculative developments were not initially successful. Another generously sized development was Roupell Park, the area near Christchurch Road promoted by the Roupell family. It is centred 5 miles (8.0km) south of Charing Cross. About Stockwell ward on Lambeth Council website. Streatham's first parish church, St Leonard's, was founded in Saxon times but an early Tudor tower is the only remaining structure pre-dating 1831 when the body of the church was rebuilt. This is a permanent position, 40 hours per week. In November 2013, the new Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre opened to the public. The only twentieth-century building of significant architectural interest in the area is Stockwell Bus Garage. We will work this out as follows: Your annual fees (minus any awards or discounts) total number of school days in 2020-21 academic year (this varies slightly by school) In September 2002, Streatham High Road was voted the "Worst Street in Britain"[17] in a poll organised by the BBC Today programme and CABE. [6] At parliamentary level it is in the Vauxhall constituency, represented by Labour MP Florence Eshalomi. In 2005 Streatham Green won the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association 'London Spade' award for best public open space scheme in the capital. [10], In the 1950s Streatham had the longest and busiest shopping street in south London. These pictures were wittily labelled by Fanny Burney as the Streatham Worthies.[8]. Streatham is covered by Lambeth London Borough Council and lies within the parliamentary constituency of the same name. However, a combination of factors led to a gradual decline through the 1970s and a more rapid decline in the 1980s. In spite of London's expansion, a limited number of developments took place in the village in the second half of the nineteenth century, most notably on Wellfield Road and Sunnyhill Road. This road (and its traffic) have shaped Streatham's development. Enter your full postcode in the box below and select how wide you'd like to search, from a two-mile radius to 100 miles. "[20] Lambeth monitor air quality on Clapham Road in Stockwell using Diffusion Tubes. They are also well represented in the local population, and cafes, grocers, barbers' shops and salons run by people from these communities are scattered around Stockwell. Streatham Festival was established in 2002. The area also has much social housing; the main estates are Lansdowne Green, Stockwell Park, Studley, Spurgeon, Mursell and Stockwell Gardens. [14], 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. Instead, youll be instantly connected with a Medicspot doctor via video link. Streatham is made up of 4 wards in the London Borough of Lambeth: St Leonard's, Streatham Hill, Streatham South, and Streatham Wells. After the First World War Streatham developed as a location for entertainment, with the Streatham Hill Theatre, three cinemas, the Locarno ballroom and Streatham Ice Rink all adding to its reputation as "the West End of South London". In 1932 the parish church of the Holy Redeemer was built in Streatham Vale to commemorate the work of William Wilberforce. Before the creation of the County of London in 1889, Stockwell was part of Surrey. Stockwell. However, many remnants of the area's nineteenth-century grandeur can be found in the side and back streets of Stockwell, notably in the Stockwell Park Conservation Area,[1] mostly built between 1825 and 1840 and centred on Stockwell Park Road,[2] Stockwell Park Crescent,[3] Durand Gardens, and Albert Square. The largest single ethnicity is White British (35.5%).[26][27][28]. Later, Streatham was awarded a further 1.6 million, matched by another 1 million by Lambeth. Find and compare secondary schools near you. Stockwell and neighbouring South Lambeth are home to one of the UK's biggest Portuguese communities, known as 'Little Portugal'. [14], In 2017, there were 11.7 million entries and exits at Stockwell tube station. The street in question, the London to Brighton Way, was the Roman road from the capital Londinium to the south coast near Portslade, today within Brighton and Hove. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.[2]. Residents included the artist Arthur Rackham, who was born on South Lambeth Road in 1867, moving with his family to Albert Square when he was 15 years old. Wellfield Road, which had previously been known as Leigham Lane, was renamed to reflect its role as the main route from the village centre to one of the well locations. The area immediately around Stockwell tube station was extensively rebuilt following the Second World War, and the original domed tube station was replaced first in the 1920s, then again with the opening of the Victoria line in 1971. It is likely that the destination was a Roman port now lost to coastal erosion, which has been tentatively identified with 'Novus Portus' mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia. It features live performances of jazz, funk, swing and soul music as well as stand-up comedy nights. In the 1930s large numbers of blocks of flats were constructed along the High Road. There is now a mixture of buildings from all architectural eras of the past 200 years. Sarah Beeny's burrowing under home", "Interview: Sarah Beeny, TV property expert", "My perfect weekend: Simon Callow, actor, director and writer", "In celebration of Mr Callow; Did you know Simon Callow had directed opera, is a dictionary obsessive and loved to torment his teachers? These included long term population movements out to Croydon, Kingston and Sutton; the growth of heavy traffic on the A23 (main road from central London to Gatwick Airport and Brighton); and a lack of redevelopment sites in the town centre. The exact reduction will vary from school to school, and will depend on the Spring term dates, the level of school fees per day and the number of days of Guided Home Learning. Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stockwell&oldid=1009889436, Districts of the London Borough of Lambeth, Portuguese diaspora in the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2017, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 March 2021, at 20:11. 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). It is situated 2.4 miles (3.9km) south of Charing Cross. [22], 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.