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Timeline

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  • A Call to Action – Securing the future of London’s theatres

    The Society of London Theatre has published a new report raising awareness of the specific needs of London’s historic theatres and their role as a vital asset to the city’s night time economy, central to pandemic recovery. Although… Read More

  • RAF Aerial Photo shows WW2 Theatre Bomb Damage

    The RAF Aerial Photo collection 1945-49 shows the damage suffered by Streatham Hill Theatre as a result of being hit by a flying bomb in 1944. Note the hole in the roof and the south wall, and what… Read More

  • Prof. Ian McKillop recalls seeing significant productions at Streatham Hill Theatre 📻

    The late Professor Ian MacKillop recorded an interview with T K Vincent for the British Library Theatre Archive Project on 10th November 2003. He was born in Bromley in 1939 and was a scholarship pupil at Dulwich College…. Read More

  • Neil Heayes recalls shows at Streatham Hill Theatre 📻

    Neil Heayes recorded an interview with Natalie Dunton for the British Library Theatre Archive Project on 16th January 2008. He was a resident of Streatham and talks of seeing shows at the Streatham Hill Theatre in his two-part… Read More

  • Over 80 programmes donated to the archive

    We have received a kind donation of 86 Streatham Hill Theatre programmes for our archive, from Edge Hill University. We thank their Professor of Theatre Praxis in the Department of Creative Arts who found them in their store… Read More

  • SW Londoner articles cover the campaign

    SW Londoner Magazine has covered The Friends campaign in two recent articles by Henry Bird: Ten theatres added to annual ‘Theatres at Risk’ register, highest number since 2013 Streatham Hill Theatre marks fourth year on ‘Theatres at Risk’… Read More

  • Archive added to the Community Archives and Heritage Group

    Our archives are now recorded on the Community Archives at the group’s website. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail

  • More aerial photos

    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… Read More

  • “An’ weekends we’d go dancing / Down Streatham on the bus” 🎵

    Stay Free, the 1978 song by The Clash (JOE STRUMMER, MICK JONES, PAUL SIMONON, TOPPER HEADON), makes a couple of references to Streatham when it was still a centre of entertainment in the late 70’s. An’ weekends we’d… Read More

  • Wake Up and Dream! programme now online

    The programme from the theatre’s opening show in 1929 is now available online as a PDF, with thanks to a supporter who lent us an original copy to scan. It joins the collection of programmes in our archive…. Read More

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