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Milkmen at Welfords Dairies shop in Abbeville Road, Clapham (1907) Dairies - involved in the distribution of milk sourced by a company’s own farmland - were a common site on suburban streets until well after the Second World War. Credit: Welfords Dairies TUM image id: 1622823673 Licence:	Brudenell Road, Upper Tooting (1900) TUM image id: 1464348819 Licence:	Nightingale Lane, SW12 Between 1874 and 1896 the area south of Nightingale Lane morphed from a mushrooming street plan developing on the existing field patterns into the system of roads and buildings which exists today. Such unprecedented development in such a short period of time reflects Balham’s rapidly growing status as a fashionable high-class suburb, close to the rapidly expanding rail network and within easy reach of the city Old London postcard TUM image id: 1636727866 Licence:	Northcote Road SW11 at the junction of Mallinson Road (2006) The area has recently become gentrified. The shops reflect this, the ones near here include delicatessens, specialist bakers, boutiques and coffee bars. This shot is looking towards Clapham Junction. Credit: Geograph/Danny Robinson TUM image id: 1640091298 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tooting tram change pit, looking towards Wimbledon (1950) This is the junction of Longley Road and Blackshaw Road heading towards Colliers Wood TUM image id: 1682606839 Licence:
Wakehurst Road, SW11 (1907) The street is photographed from the roof of Bolingbroke Hospital. Northcote Road Baptist Church still had a spire at the time. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1621938056 Licence:	A Lambeth Council scheme to cater for small businesses, under construction in Zennor Road, Balham Credit: London Borough of Lambeth TUM image id: 1492901042 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Du Cane Court on Balham High Street, opened in 1937 and, with its 677 flats, was a popular place to live for many music hall stars in the 1940s. Credit: Wiki Commons/Roger W. Haworth TUM image id: 1653987520 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Ceremony marking the opening of houses in the newly built streets of Tooting in 1903. The road they are all in is Lessingham Avenue and was a visit by the King and Queen Totterdown Fields in Tooting was the first London County Council cottage estate and built between 1901 and 1911 It contained 1244 individual houses built over 38 acres. The estate was designated a conservation area, on the 19 September 1978. TUM image id: 1676810205 Licence:

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A Lambeth Council scheme to cater for small businesses, under construction in Zennor Road, Balham
Credit: London Borough of Lambeth
Licence: CC BY 2.0