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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… Read More
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… Read More
We’ve had another kind donation of programmes from Catherine Bennett, collected by her mum who was born in 1933 and grew up on the Clapham Park Estate. She was a “scholarship girl” at St Martin-in-the Fields High School… Read More
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Whilst sorting through many, many boxes of my father’s papers I came across a bag of mixed theatre programmes, nine of which are for Streatham Hill Theatre dated pre-war 1939*. I cursed the vast quantity of 60 plus… Read More
We recently received a message from John Flower, offering programmes his father had collected. John has hand delivered them to us while visiting England. Thank you John! There’s a full list of performances at Streatham Hill Theatre, and… Read More
We have received some programmes from Tessa Manning, who writes: These programmes were owned by my late Mum, Pamela Elderfield who lived in Tierney Road in the early 1950’s. She loved going to the theatre and went throughout… Read More
The August edition of Best of British magazine features the late Jim McManus, local resident and renowned actor, who told us his memories of Streatham Hill Theatre. Jim died on 11 April 2023. The article is a response… Read More
Liz Burton writes: Most of you probably know that the Friends maintain a record of all theatre programmes that are given to us, and I’m always happy to update the spreadsheet, which gives me the excuse to escape… Read More
We have received a large batch of programmes from Elizabeth Maytom, whose mother and grandmother were regular and avid attendees at the theatre both pre-war and post-war, when they lived in ABC roads. We’ll be cataloguing them and… Read More
If you didn’t look at the floor level it could still be a theatre. The seats of the dress circle and upper circle still in situ. The mouldings still etched out in gilt, somewhat faded, the columns and… Read More
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