Much of the storyline of In Loving Memory  concerns Balham Underground Station. Here are a few contemporary photos, with many thanks to Karen Eldridge for the field trip she undertook on my behalf!

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Balham Underground Station Photo by Nick Cooper Nick Cooper at en.wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Balham - stairs to the street. Photo by Karen Eldridge	Balham - stairs from street to ticket hall. Photo by Karen Eldridge	Balham - newsagent's shop. Photo by Karen Eldridge

Balham - plaque honouring those who died Oct 14, 1940. Photo by Karen Eldridge	Balham - stairs and escalators. Photo by Karen Eldridge	Balham - stairs and escalators from lower landing up to ticket hall level Southbound platform on the left Northbound platform on the right. Photo by Karen Eldridge

Balham - lower landing from foot of escalators showing cross passages to the trains Northbound on the left Southbound on the right. Photo by Karen Eldridge	Balham - platform and Underground sign. Photo by Karen Eldridge	Balham - platform featuring old-fashioned clock. Photo by Karen Eldridge

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Balham - platform. Photo by Karen Eldridge	Balham - northbound platform looking north. Photo by Sunil060902  via Wikimedia Commons	Balham - northbound platform looking south. Photo by Sunil060902  via Wikimedia Commons

Balham - northbound platform looking  north. Photo by Simon  Cook / London Underground	Balham - northbound platform showing repairs from 1940  on the trackside walls, where the paint is lifting, due to water ingress. Photo by Simon  Cook / London Underground	Balham - northbound platform looking north showing cross-passage which in 1940 was filled with rubble. now blocked up and used as an electrical switch room. Photo by Simon  Cook / London Underground

	The new plaque commemorating the loss of lives at Balham Station on the night of  October 14, 1940, unveiled on October 14, 2016. Photo by Simon Cook, London Underground