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Milkmen at Welfords Dairies shop in Abbeville Road, Clapham (1907) Dairies - involved in the distribution of milk sourced by a company’s own farmland - were a common site on suburban streets until well after the Second World War. Credit: Welfords Dairies TUM image id: 1622823673 Licence:	Brudenell Road, Upper Tooting (1900) TUM image id: 1464348819 Licence:	Eccles Road, Battersea (1906) - a perfect line of Victorian terraces.This view has not changed much - apart from the cars - in the intervening years. Credit: Young & Co, Teddington TUM image id: 1489423251 Licence:	Mid Victoria-era cottages, Battersea Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1627661781 Licence:	Nightingale Lane, SW12 Between 1874 and 1896 the area south of Nightingale Lane morphed from a mushrooming street plan developing on the existing field patterns into the system of roads and buildings which exists today. Such unprecedented development in such a short period of time reflects Balham’s rapidly growing status as a fashionable high-class suburb, close to the rapidly expanding rail network and within easy reach of the city Old London postcard TUM image id: 1636727866 Licence:
Northcote Road SW11 at the junction of Mallinson Road (2006) The area has recently become gentrified. The shops reflect this, the ones near here include delicatessens, specialist bakers, boutiques and coffee bars. This shot is looking towards Clapham Junction. Credit: Geograph/Danny Robinson TUM image id: 1640091298 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Johns Road, SW11 TUM image id: 1466529945 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tooting tram change pit, looking towards Wimbledon (1950) This is the junction of Longley Road and Blackshaw Road heading towards Colliers Wood TUM image id: 1682606839 Licence:	Wakehurst Road, SW11 (1907) The street is photographed from the roof of Bolingbroke Hospital. Northcote Road Baptist Church still had a spire at the time. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1621938056 Licence:	A Lambeth Council scheme to cater for small businesses, under construction in Zennor Road, Balham Credit: London Borough of Lambeth TUM image id: 1492901042 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Severus Road is very near to Clapham Junction station. In a tweet during May 2020 JK Rowling confirmed that just round the corner, in a flat on Northcote Road, the idea for the Harry Potter series of novels was concieved. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1613415688 Licence:	Du Cane Court on Balham High Street, opened in 1937 and, with its 677 flats, was a popular place to live for many music hall stars in the 1940s. Credit: Wiki Commons/Roger W. Haworth TUM image id: 1653987520 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Ceremony marking the opening of houses in the newly built streets of Tooting in 1903. The road they are all in is Lessingham Avenue and was a visit by the King and Queen Totterdown Fields in Tooting was the first London County Council cottage estate and built between 1901 and 1911 It contained 1244 individual houses built over 38 acres. The estate was designated a conservation area, on the 19 September 1978. TUM image id: 1676810205 Licence:	Map of Clapham Common (1890s map) Clapham in the last years of the nineteenth century, was an area in transition. It had been an area of serious wealth with large houses "in the country" for the heads of industry in the City. With the coming of the railways, and the tube, Clapham became more accessible and land values rose. Housing covered much open land and many large houses around the Common were sold off to developers. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1696322942 Licence:	I have long been fascinated by both the tale of Victorian bogeyman Spring-heeled Jack and also the mysterious Devil’s Footprints. In this video I get to tell the tale of both. What’s more, we’re in the company of Dr Stephen King who guides up across Clapham Common, visiting the Deep Level Shelter, the Bandstand, the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and more. It’s a packed video, this one... https://youtu.be/jsLbb385kEM Credit: Aldine Publishing, 1904 TUM image id: 1688121013 Licence:

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Nightingale Lane, SW12 Between 1874 and 1896 the area south of Nightingale Lane morphed from a mushrooming street plan developing on the existing field patterns into the system of roads and buildings which exists today. Such unprecedented development in such a short period of time reflects Balham’s rapidly growing status as a fashionable high-class suburb, close to the rapidly expanding rail network and within easy reach of the city
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Du Cane Court on Balham High Street, opened in 1937 and, with its 677 flats, was a popular place to live for many music hall stars in the 1940s.
Credit: Wiki Commons/Roger W. Haworth
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