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George Pratt arrived in Streatham from Silchester at the age of 13 to start an apprenticeship in the drapery trade with William Reynolds in Bedford Row on Streatham High Road. [1] Within eleven years Pratt had purchased the business and was the sole owner, but Streatham was only a sleepy village with a population of 7000.
Shops on Streatham High Road. Streatham High Road, some 1.8 miles (2.9 km) in length, [1] is part of the main A23 road from London to Brighton, and is in the London Borough of Lambeth. It begins in the north at Streatham Hill railway station, being an end-on junction with Streatham Hill and continues south to Norbury where the A23 becomes ...
A map showing the Streatham ward of Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916. Streatham means "the hamlet on the street". The street in question, the London to Brighton Way, was the Roman road from the capital Londinium to the south coast near Portslade, today within Brighton and Hove.
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Amex’s list of the UK’s top high street hotspots for independent shops. St Mary’s Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire. Devonshire Street / Division Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Gloucester Road ...
Undercover police chasing Sudesh Amman along Streatham High Road in 2020 said they feared for the public and themselves before shooting the suspect.
The largest shopping areas are (in order of size) Streatham, Brixton, Vauxhall, Clapham and West Norwood. In the northern part of the borough are the central London districts of the South Bank, Vauxhall and Lambeth; in the south are the suburbs of Gipsy Hill, Streatham, West Dulwich and West Norwood.
Also on Streatham High Road, Wheeler designed a number of grand shopping parades in the 1880s and 90s, one of the finest being The Triangle (Nos. 324-342) which has a dramatic roofline of Dutch gables, a curved fish-scale tiled roof to No. 324 and elevations of red brick with horizontal stone banding.