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  • Memories of the Mecca Days from Peter Gauci

    In 1962, the Theatre became Mecca’s flagship bingo social club, run by Eric Morley, head of Mecca and founder of Miss World, who in 1970 called Streatham Hill “the greatest entertainment centre in Britain”. We have heard from Peter Gauci who was manager there in 1972/3. Thank you for sharing the photos of SHT but…

  • Talk to Streatham Society 1 July 2025 📺

    The Friends’ David Harvey and Liz Burton gave a talk about Streatham Hill Theatre to the Streatham Society, entitled “Streatham’s Sleeping Beauty”, as part of the Wandsworth Heritage Festival. 1st July 2025, 7.30pm at St. Leonard’s Church. More details here. Streatham Society has made a video available. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail

  • Urban Explorers visit SHT 📺

    Urbandoned, a group of “urban explorers” took a sneaky look at Streatham Hill Theatre in 2023 and have today published this video. While we can’t condone trespassing, it does provide a good record of the theatre at the time, after bingo moved out and before Ruach moved in. “In today’s Urbandoned video, we head inside…

  • Patron Samira Ahmed elected President of 20th Century Society

    Our patron Samira Ahmed has been elected as the new President of the Twentieth Century Society. Samira is a journalist, broadcaster and writer whose work explores the intersection of popular culture, heritage, art, science, politics and social change. She presents the BBC’s flagship arts and culture show ‘Front Row’ on Radio 4 and ‘Newswatch’ on BBC1.…

  • Visiting V&A Archive’s SHT Collection

    The V&A museum has nine boxes of material relating to Streatham Hill Theatre in its former theatre museum archives. We have been trying to see these for a while but were delayed by COVID and the V&A archive’s move to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. However, today we visited the new V&A East Storehouse where…

  • Campaign Meeting Wednesday 27th August 2025

    We have our next online meeting on Wednesday 27th August 2025 at 8pm. Please register via our events page. We’ll be discussing the campaign and the recent planning application. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail

  • Streatham Society Newsletter features the Friends and SHT

    The latest edition of Streatham Society‘s newsletter magazine (Summer 2025 No. 261) features an article on the planning application by Ruach City Church showing our architects’ vision for the theatre, plus our talk to the Society last month. SHARE LINK VIA XFacebookBlueSkyThreadsEmail

  • Streatham Hill Theatre the subject of Master’s Degree Final Thesis by French Architecture student

    In 2024 our theatre attracted the attention of French architecture student Sixtine Compin from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon. She and her tutor met with some of The Friends on a visit to the UK where we provided information on the theatre and our campaign, and presented her with a copy of the…

  • Notice of AGM 9th October 2025 at 8pm

    Please save the date, and register online via our Events page. NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of The Friends of Streatham Hill Theatre will be held at 8pm on Thursday 9th October 2025 to transact the following business. The meeting is open to all, however only voting Members may speak or…

  • Norbury Knitters Knit Banner for SHT

    We greatly thank the Norbury Knitters of Knitting Norbury Together for creating this banner to publicise our campaign to save Streatham Hill Theatre. The banner will be put on public display around Streatham, moving from place to place. Please keep a lookout for it, and if you see it, please post a photo on your…

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