But in October 1940, when a bomb tore through the water and gas mains in Balham, flooding the ... of people using tube platforms throughout London felt their havens were not impregnable the ...

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”.

If you’re a fan of gin, south London is home to a distillery with a century and a half of history that you can still visit today.

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 ...

A 22-year-old has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of murdering a man in a "frenzied" attack in south-west London ... died at his home in Balham in the early hours of 27 July, after suffering ...