19 May
Aluminium windows
London - N18
Enquiry from: Daniel S
Start Date: Immediate
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Material: upvc, wooden, aluminium
Balham
Balham is a district in south London inside the London Borough of Wandsworth. The settlement features within the Domesday Book as Belgeham. Bal signifies ‘rounded enclosure’ and ham a homestead, village or river enclosure. The region 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 area of Balham which is near Tooting Bec includes a block of 1930s Art Deco flats named Du Cane Court. There is also the Heaver Estate which can be found in Tooting, which comprises substantial houses. It was built in the grounds of the old Bedford Hill House by local Victorian builder Alfred Heaver.
Balham is positioned in between 4 south London commons, namely Clapham Common towards the north, Wandsworth Common to the west, Tooting Graveney Common to the south plus the connecting Tooting Bec to the east.
During WWII, on 14th October 1940, Balham tube station was badly damaged by air raids on London. People sheltered inside the tube station through the raids, however a bomb fell in the High Road and through the top of the Underground station, bursting a water and gas mains and killing about 64 people today. Ian McEwan describes the event as part of his novel ‘Atonement’, published in 2001.
