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”.

In this way, we as children learnt both, history ... London. Throughout all this we just carried on as they cames bothday and night. My mother had by this time returned to work, hairdressing in ...

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 ...

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.