23 Mar
Hardwood doors
London - W9
Enquiry from: Pat U
Start Date: Immediate
Need broken front door replaced or repaired
Balham
Balham is a district in south London within the London Borough of Wandsworth. The settlement appears within the Domesday Book as Belgeham. Bal signifies ‘rounded enclosure’ and ham a homestead, village or river enclosure. The location 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 along with the roads coming off it. The southern part of Balham which is near Tooting Bec has a block of 1930s Art Deco flats referred to as Du Cane Court. There is also the Heaver Estate which can be found in Tooting, which comprises substantial homes. It was built within the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House by nearby Victorian builder Alfred Heaver.
Balham is located among 4 south London commons, namely Clapham Common to the north, Wandsworth Common towards the west, Tooting Graveney Common towards the south along with the connecting Tooting Bec to the east.
In WW2, on 14th October 1940, Balham tube station was badly damaged by air raids on London. Men and women sheltered in the tube station during the raids, but a bomb fell in the High Road and through the rooftop of the Underground station, bursting a water and gas mains and killing about 64 people today. Ian McEwan describes the event in the novel ‘Atonement’, published in 2001.
