The best Balham restaurants are usually the ones that match your mood. Some are great for relaxed weekends. Some are better for a quiet evening meal.

Once rough and ready, a couple of decades of property price rises and a ripple of affluent family buyers fleeing more expensive parts of south-west London have transformed Balham into a middle-class ...

Architectural writer Nikolaus Pevsner, in his magnum opus The Buildings of England, dismisses south-west London’s Balham with the comment: “No village character of its own can be traced any longer.” ...

When Peter Sellers said Balham was the “Gateway to the South” he was poking fun at the fact that nothing of note ever happened there. A semi-suburban no man’s land at the bottom of the Northern Line, ...

“I always remember a tournament down in Guildford, not long before a lot of scouts descended and the inevitable happened,” says Greg Cruttwell, founder and chairman of Balham FC and one of Fabio ...

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 ...

Lisa Loebenberg, is co-owner of The Exhibit, a bar, restaurant, event space and cinema. She has lived in Balham since she was 18 years old. ‘It’s a very cute indie patisserie. Staff are superfriendly ...

Photographs about life in Balham, taken by local residents, go on show in 14 of Balham's shop windows in October. Conceived and organised by local photographer and artist, Felicitas Lind, Balham Sees ...

A fun and exciting free weekly Creative Hub offering a range of activities for babies and toddlers, and for children aged five – nine is coming to Balham this summer. The Balham Creative Hub, which ...

There are loads of green spaces and places to hang out (Picture: Facebook/Flickr) Balham – or ‘The Gateway to the South’ if you’re a Peter Sellers fan or aged 50+ – is the best place to live in London ...