The Historic England Archive allows you to explore over 400,000 digitised photos taken from aerial photo collections of over 6 million photographs. Here are some showing Streatham Hill Theatre, with many being RAF survey photos showing WW2 bomb damage – you can see the big hole in the theatre and the recovered roof beam on open ground nearby.

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Streatham Hill, Streatham, 1934. This image has been produced from a damaged negative. Historic England Photograph: EPW045426 flown 01/07/1934: Historic England Photograph: RAF_106G_UK_1271_V_5109 flown 23/03/1946: Historic England Photograph: RAF_106G_UK_1271_V_5110 flown 23/03/1946: Historic England Photograph: RAF_106G_UK_1356_FV_7058 flown 02/04/1946: Historic England Photograph: RAF_106G_UK_1356_FV_7059 flown 02/04/1946: Historic England Photograph: RAF_106G_UK_1356_FV_7060 flown 02/04/1946: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2053_V_5078 flown 07/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2053_V_5079 flown 07/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2053_V_5080 flown 07/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2053_V_5081 flown 07/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2112_V_5172 flown 29/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2112_V_5261 flown 29/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2112_V_5262 flown 29/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2112_V_5328 flown 29/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2112_V_5329 flown 29/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2112_V_5377 flown 29/05/1947: Historic England Photograph: RAF_CPE_UK_2112_V_5378 flown 29/05/1947: These images are copyrighted – see terms and conditions