04 Jun
Conservatory cleaning
Croydon - CR0
Enquiry from: Cassandra T
Start Date: Immediate
Interior roof, panels, doors and windows clean. Also. Would like exterior clean depending on quote
Balham
Balham is a district in south London in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The settlement features in the Domesday Book as Belgeham. Bal signifies ‘rounded enclosure’ and ham a homestead, village or river enclosure. The area has been settled since Saxon times, and Balham Hill and Balham High Road follow the line of the Roman road Stane Street to Chichester.
Balham encompasses the A24 north of Tooting Bec and the roads coming off it. The southern part of Balham which is near Tooting Bec includes a block of 1930s Art Deco flats known as Du Cane Court. There's also the Heaver Estate which is in Tooting, which comprises substantial homes. It was built in the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House by local Victorian builder Alfred Heaver.
Balham lies in between four south London commons, namely Clapham Common to the north, Wandsworth Common to the west, Tooting Graveney Common towards the south as well as the connecting Tooting Bec towards the east.
In WW2, on 14th October 1940, Balham tube station was badly affected by air raids on London. Individuals sheltered in the tube station during the raids, but a bomb fell in the High Road and through the roof of the Underground station, bursting a water and gas mains and killing around 64 people. Ian McEwan describes the event as part of his novel ‘Atonement’, published in 2001.
