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Balham Hill, LONDON, SW12 9DX

A few shops on the A24, at its junction with Hazelbourne Road (left). .

The A24 through Balham, at its junction with Gaskarth Road (left). Note the blue "cycle superhighway".

The office block in the acute angled building (Marsh & Parsons) has attractive plaster panels on its facade, and plaster flowers on the corners

In late 1940, the government decided to build a system of deep (air raid) shelters linked to existing underground stations. Each deep shelter consisted of two parallel tubes that might be used for future express underground lines. Seven such shelters were built at Northern Line stations - Belsize Park, Camden Town, Goodge Street, Stockwell, Clapham North, Clapham Common and Clapham South. Each shelter had two entrances with a “pill box” and ventilation shafts; most of these are still there today (February 2011). Some of the deep shelters are in use for secure storage of documents. This shelter can be seen on the satellite image http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=51.45175046583516&lon=-0.14803379774093628&gz=19&oz=10>=1 . [Source: “Beneath the City Streets” by Peter Laurie (1970, revised 1979).]

In late 1940, the government decided to build a system of deep (air raid) shelters linked to existing underground stations. Each deep shelter consisted of two parallel tubes that might be used for future express underground lines. Seven such shelters were built at Northern Line stations - Belsize Park, Camden Town, Goodge Street, Stockwell, Clapham North, Clapham Common and Clapham South. Each shelter had two entrances with a “pill box” and ventilation shafts; most of these are still there today (February 2011). Some of the deep shelters are in use for secure storage of documents. From the remains of the sign, now saying only "all", above and to the left of the blue gates, and the estate agent's "sold" notice, it would appear that this shelter was until recently used by Recall http://www.recalldms.co.uk/index.html a Brambles Company http://www.brambles.com/BXB/content/home.html, as is currently (February 2011) the Image This shelter can be seen on the satellite image http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=51.45175046583516&lon=-0.14803379774093628&gz=19&oz=10>=1 . [Source: “Beneath the City Streets” by Peter Laurie (1970, revised 1979).] Betond the shelter (left) is the Image photographed by Danny Robinson; the shelter is just visible on the right hand side of his photo.

In late 1940, the government decided to build a system of deep (air raid) shelters linked to existing underground stations. Each deep shelter consisted of two parallel tubes that might be used for future express underground lines. Seven such shelters were built at Northern Line stations - Belsize Park, Camden Town, Goodge Street, Stockwell, Clapham North, Clapham Common and Clapham South. Each shelter had two entrances with a “pill box” and ventilation shafts; most of these are still there today (February 2011). Some of the deep shelters are in use for secure storage of documents. This shelter can be seen on the satellite image http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm?lat=51.45175046583516&lon=-0.14803379774093628&gz=19&oz=10>=1 . [Source: “Beneath the City Streets” by Peter Laurie (1970, revised 1979).]

The extraordinary thing is that the flats are being built over and around the cylindrical structure, which is the southern entrance to Clapham South deep air raid shelter. The northern entrance may be seen on Clapham Common.