LPG stands for liquid petroleum gas. It’s a by-product of refined crude oil. When it’s put under pressure, LPG turns into a liquid. It’s usually stored in this form. LPG is used as fuel for things like BBQs and camping stoves, as well as central heating.
Balham
Balham is a district in south London in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The settlement features inside the Domesday Book as Belgeham. Bal means ‘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 also the roads coming off it. The southern area of Balham which is near Tooting Bec has a block of 1930s Art Deco flats known as Du Cane Court. There's also the Heaver Estate which can be found in Tooting, which comprises substantial homes. It was constructed inside the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House by nearby Victorian builder Alfred Heaver.
Balham is positioned between 4 south London commons, namely Clapham Common towards the north, Wandsworth Common towards the west, Tooting Graveney Common towards the south along with the connecting Tooting Bec towards the east.
During WWII, on 14th October 1940, Balham tube station was badly affected by air raids on London. Families sheltered inside the tube station through the raids, however 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 individuals. Ian McEwan describes the event in his novel ‘Atonement’, published in 2001.
