Talk:Balham/Archive 1

10 Years ago
I like the way the main article is written by someone who obviously has moved there and is trying to bigup the area - 20 years ago the place was a bit of a nogo area, but like Tooting really.

Yeah - talk of period Victorian housing, Waitrose and gentrification defintely gives that impression. Was this page edited by an estate agent?

--81.19.57.130 13:07, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the sad fact is that the article is correct - Balham is going that way. No point trying to hide the truth. --Richardrj talkemail 09:25, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Hyde farm estate has an article. Secretlondon 17:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Seen the film 'Atonement' this week in which the Keira Knightley character lives in Balham during the Second World War. At the end of the film, it's said that she died in Balham Underground station with many other people when a German bomb hit a Gas and Water works above it and she, and the others, were drowned in the ensuing flood. Having grown-up in South London after the war, I thought I might have heard from my parents (now dead) of such a catastrophe. No reference is here, so it is just fiction? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.250.101.173 (talk) 11:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * There's a plaque in Balham tube station commemorating the 64 people who died in the tube station bombing on Oct 14th 1940. This is mentioned in Balham tube station. I think that Atonement talks about a water pipe being hit, not a water works. That sounds far more likely. Davorg 21:46, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

There were some famous bombings of Balham during WW2. One of them was a direct hit on the subway (a memorable photo of a double decker bus fallen into the crater exists). Also the neighbourhood between Fernlea Rd and Rossiter Rd, approximately midway along their length, was destroyed by one of the first V2's sent by Germany. Hence the 60's/70's built apartment blocks, and unconformist terraced units along both streets. I have not heard of a gas and water works near Balham station. Mr. Henry Kelly, a famous resident of Balham, and local greengrocer for the open air market, was interviewed and recorded for National Geographics article for his memories of the London Blitz, sometime in the 1990's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.162.3.155 (talk) 16:08, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

'Victorian terraced houses now highly prized as family homes'
Sorry to be pedantic, but as someone else suggested, the following sentence sounds like it was written by an estate agent:

Balham is an inner London suburb containing many Victorian terraced houses now highly prized as family homes.

It's not even correct:
 * much (most?) of Balham is Edwardian or later: the Hyde Farm estate, central streets like Oakmead Road and Ravenstone Street, DuCane Court, Ravenstone School (I think), and so on
 * much of Balham is not 'family homes'
 * I don't like the word 'containing' :-).

I say get rid of it! Any objections?

Sam Dutton (talk) 10:40, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Rupert Penry-Jones and Dervla Kirwan
According to an interview in the Times on June 15th 2008: "They moved from Balham to a big house in Hampshire two months ago." So I've removed them from the list of notable people. Davorg (talk) 08:45, 17 June 2008 (UTC)