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...Every morning, around 9:10 a.m., the 59 bus creeps out of Streatham Hill Bus Garage to start its journey through London to Euston Station. By the time it reaches Brixton about 10 minutes later, it?s standing room only, filled with people jostling for space on their morning commute. And it?s noisy. People chat loudly to each other or on their mobile phones, while mothers try to comfort wailing babies and kids turn their MP3 players up so high that the music seeps out from their headphones in a buzzing, tinny beat. It stays that way until...
Another young devotee, Sam Brown, 22, lived in Nottingham with his Jamaican-born parents before moving to London's Streatham district. He traces his radicalism to being black. As a member of the Young Socialists' London organization, Brown passed out leaflets during the Brixton riots urging young blacks and whites to protest police repression. Says Brown: "I'm a Marxist because that's the way people like me progress...
...Streatham, London, England...
...politicians flatly predicted a Conservative victory at the national polls next year. Nevertheless, both sides realized that less than two-fifths of Britain's electorate had voted, that local contests do not necessarily forecast the country's attitude in a national election. Said a railway worker in Streatham: "Yer can't judge by local elections. They vote against you if they don't like yer face...
...lisping small boy named Noel Coward. In his autobiography, Present Indicative, he has written: "She . . . gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." For a while she went to the Convent of the Sacre Coeur, Streatham, studied dancing under a Madame Espinosa, and acting at Italia Conti's London school. She had cards printed reading Miss Gertie Lawrence, Child Actress and Toe Dancer...