25 Sep
Waste | Rubbish Removal
London - SW11
Enquiry from: Florica G
Start Date: Immediate
Someone to pick up junk. Preparing to move house so a lot of stuff needs to go to the top. Thank you
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 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 and the roads coming off it. The southern area of Balham which is close to Tooting Bec includes a block of 1930s Art Deco flats named Du Cane Court. There's also the Heaver Estate which is in Tooting, which comprises substantial houses. It was built within the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House by local Victorian builder Alfred Heaver.
Balham is positioned among four south London commons, namely Clapham Common to the north, Wandsworth Common towards the west, Tooting Graveney Common towards the south plus the connecting Tooting Bec towards the east.
During WWII, on 14th October 1940, Balham tube station was badly damaged by air raids on London. People sheltered in the tube station during the raids, however 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 today. Ian McEwan describes the event in his novel ‘Atonement’, published in 2001.
