Pleasantly rural though it was, this patch of south London was hardly fashionable. A contemporary guide remarked that “Balham has very little antiquity and no history worth speaking about”.

To this day this family-run distillery is still going strong and makes its popular London Dry Gin using the same recipe he ...

Left from Balham station just ... but one had to pass English, Maths, History and Geography and a language. Not a large science presence in Chichester. In London I had studied Physics and ...

When I was a young boy I remember going down the Underground at Balham station on the Northern ... My father who was driving London buses during the war told me that it was a numnber 88 which ...