I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The London suburb once mocked for being ugly is enjoying a surprising property boom. Balham ...

In 1856, Balham station opened for the first time as Balham Hill. Credit: Network Rail. Network Rail has made an investment of around $3.6m (£2.6m) to minimise the gap between trains and platforms at ...

Balham rose to fame in the Fifties as the joke location “Bal-ham: Gateway to the South” in a mock-American travelogue by Peter Sellers. The sketch, originally commissioned for a radio comedy show, ...

No one wants to be the runt of the litter, but that is exactly what Balham was historically, sandwiched as it is between the Chelsea-aspirant hordes of Battersea and Clapham. “In the past Balham could ...

Balham's community of city types and young parents means it boasts a nourishing mix of hip bars and suburban restaurants. There are unassuming family pubs sat right next to pop-up joints serving ...