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Gyles Brandreth talks to Friends patron Simon Callow for his Rosebud podcast. Extraordinary Grandmothers, Absent Parents & A Life In Theatre Gyles says: “One of Britain’s best-loved and most talented actors for you today: Simon Callow. In this… Read More
We thank Caroline Findlay for donating programmes found when clearing her parents’ house. These will be added to our archive.
We’ve had a donation of programmes from Gilbert and Sullivan operas performed in the 1930s at Streatham Hill Theatre. Debbie Haughton found them in her late mother’s belongings, who left a note saying that the theatre did a… Read More
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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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We are sorry to hear of the death of Timothy West, one of the UK’s most loved actors. His autobiography ‘A Moment Towards the End of the Play’: An Autobiography explains his links to Streatham Hill Theatre. Timothy West’s parents… 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
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