Lumiere Court, Balham Spirtualist Church and Hamilton House
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Lumiere Court, Balham Spirtualist Church and Hamilton House
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 7 Oct 2022
Diverse buildings in Balham High Road. Hamilton House, on the right, is one of only two survivors of a row of large Victorian villas marked on the 1875 25 inch map. It was marked on most maps as a constitutional club and currently houses the White Eagle Club, a Polish community centre. In a previous guise the building housed the 211 Club in the 1950s/60s, a vice den linked to the gangster Kray twins. Grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1357625?section=official-list-entry. The other survivor of the original villas, Swan House (formerly Mansbridge House), is partly visible on the far left of the photo. Also grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1065579?section=official-list-entry - it now houses an independent school and is also grade II listed. The annexe to Hamilton House, in the centre of the photo, houses Balham Spiritualist Church. Lumiere Court, on the left, is an apartment block completed in 2002.
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Image Location
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51.439921
Longitude
-0.155162