The singer and his band flew over to the UK in April 2011, to perform at the London International Ska Festival at the Clapham Grand music venue.

* All live tracks recorded at the Clapham Grand, London on 2 March 1994 in aid of the Philip Hall Memorial Fund for Cancer Research.

Fourplay launch their new album " Let's touch the Sky " at the newly re-opened Clapham Grand Theatre in London on Thursday 10th November 2011 .< P >

In the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, it is a Church of England poor boys ' school originally taught by six elderly men, ancillary to the Bedale Poor Law, founded in 1608 by John Clapham of London, a Chancery clerk for Queen Elizabeth's William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley-whose son and heir Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter held possession of neighbouring Snape, part of the larger Middleham estate which they inherited from Lord Latymer, before the Milbanks moved in from Halnaby.

They were originally all used by the government, but as bombing intensified five of them were opened to the public in 1944: Stockwell, Clapham North, Camden Town, Belsize Park and Clapham South.

The college was originally founded by the former London County Council in 1906 as the Shoreditch Technical Institute Girls School and the Bartlett St and Clapham Trade School, which were opened to train young girls in the art of dressmaking, millinery, embroidery and hairdressing.

The church of St James in Clapham was founded in Norman times, and originally dedicated to St Michael.

The station was originally the terminus of the Clapham branch line, which began at Mitcham station, and the original station was to the west of the more recent platforms ( which were on the main line ); this explains the unusual layout of the intersection of the local roads west of the Springbank Road overpass ( opened 1924 ).

The Battersea Railway Bridge-properly called the Cremorne Bridge, after the pleasure grounds in Chelsea and originally commonly referred to as the Battersea New Bridge-is a bridge across the River Thames in London, between Battersea and Chelsea and forming part of the West London Line of the London Overground from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction.

After the coming of the railways, Clapham developed as a suburb for commuters into central London, and by 1900 it had fallen from favour with the upper classes.

In 1900, Stockwell ceased to be a terminus, after the opening of an extension to Clapham Common.

The station opened in June 1900 as part of an extension of the City & South London Railway to Clapham Common one stop to the south.

The station is at the eastern tip of Clapham Common and was opened in June 1900 as the new southern terminus of the City & South London Railway, which was extended from Stockwell.

The narrow central platform at Clapham Common with tracks on both sides dates from the 1900 extension.

Other notable residents of Clapham Common were Palace of Westminster architect Sir Charles Barry, Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and 20th century novelist Graham Greene.

The 15 clubs entering the competition are all amateur and mainly from the London area: Barnes, Civil Service, Clapham Rovers, Crystal Palace ( 1861 ), Donnington School, Hampstead Heathens, Harrow Chequers, Hitchin, Maidenhead, Marlow, Reigate, Priory, Royal Engineers, Upton Park, The Wanderers and Queen's Park ( Glasgow ).

* 2 tph to Sutton, calling at Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Common, Balham, Streatham Hill, West Norwood, Gipsy Hill, Crystal Palace, Norwood Junction, West Croydon, Waddon, Wallington and Carshalton Beeches

* 2 tph to London Bridge, calling at Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Common, Balham, Streatham Hill, West Norwood, Gipsy Hill, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, Forest Hill, Honor Oak Park, Brockley and New Cross Gate

In 1856 the station was able to take through train services to Clapham Junction via West Norwood and Streatham Hill, following the completion of the 746 yard ( 690 m ) Crystal Palace Tunnel.

* Crystal Palace on the triangular junction where the line from Clapham Junction meets the London Bridge to Brighton line.

** 2 via Norwood Junction, Crystal Palace, Gipsy Hill, West Norwood, Streatham Hill, Balham, Wandsworth Common, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park, taking 31 minutes.

* 10tph ( trains per hour ) to London Victoria, of which 2 run fast to Clapham Junction, 2 call at all stations via Hackbridge and 4 call at all stations via West Croydon and Norbury and 2 call at all stations Via West Croydon and Crystal Palace

* Beige Planet Mars ( 1998 ) by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham, a novel in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series is set on a terraformed Mars which has become a retirement home for Earth's wealthy elderly.

It has more platforms and a greater floor area than any other station in the UK ( but Clapham Junction, just under four miles ( 6 km ) down the line, has the largest number of trains ).

Clapham Common is shared with the London Borough of Wandsworth, although Lambeth has responsibility for running the common as a whole.

Clapham has excellent transport links to the rest of London and the UK.

Clapham has a large number of restaurants, bars, cafes, boutiques, wine bars and leisure facilities.

Planning permission has been granted to open Surrey Canal Road station which will be on the East London Line phase 2 extension to Clapham Junction station.

It has also given its name to the Vauxhall Parliamentary Constituency, which also includes parts of Brixton and Clapham, and to the Vauxhall Motors car manufacturer, which originated in the area, as well as to the Russian word for a large railroad station ( see below ).

Clapham believes that this has few precedents in the entire history of opera.

The NRM was established on its present site, the former York North locomotive depot, in 1975, when it took over the former British Railways collection located in Clapham and the York Railway Museum located elsewhere in the city ; since then, the collection has continued to grow.

Clapham Junction has no London Underground connection, but in 2007 the alignment of the proposed Chelsea-Hackney line possibly reaching Clapham Junction was safeguarded.

Since May 2006, Metropolitan Clapham Park has provided a housing management and maintenance service to over 1, 400 Clapham Park tenants who are renting their homes.

The regeneration programme has been funded in part by the Housing Corporation ’ s Social Housing grant ; the NDC grant through Clapham Park Project ; and through private loans, a large proportion of which will be paid back through the outright sale of homes, mixed tenures and the balance from rental income.

* Marie Kendall the famous music hall star has a plaque at her former and last home at Okeover Manor Clapham Common.

The station, designed by TP Figgis, is one of two remaining stations that has an island platform in the station tunnel, serving both the northbound and southbound lines ; the other is Clapham Common.

Clapham North is one of eight London Underground stations which has a deep-level air-raid shelter beneath it. The platforms at Clapham North tube station.

Clapham Common is one of two remaining deep-level stations on the underground that has an island platform in tunnel serving both the northbound and southbound lines, the other being Clapham North.

Clapham South tube station has a lovely aspect onto the southern edge of Clapham Common.

From 12 December 2011, Clapham High Street has been the starting point for the ' Parliamentary Train ' operating once each weekday to Kensington Olympia, departing at 16: 11 and stopping at Wandsworth Road, Imperial Wharf and West Brompton.

Several stations have been rebuilt to deal with overcrowding: Clapham Common and Clapham North on the Northern line are the last remaining stations with a single narrow platform with tracks on both sides.

The Clapham sect have been credited with playing a significant part in the development of Victorian morality, through their writings, their societies, their influence in Parliament, and their example in philanthropy and moral campaigns, especially against slavery.

By 1907 the C & SLR had been further extended at both ends to run from Clapham Common to Euston.

Previously the transport collection had been held at Syon Park and Clapham.

Another political scoop was gained when he was granted the only interview with the then Welsh Secretary, Ron Davies, after he had been forced to resign following his " moment of madness " on Clapham Common in October 1998.

John Venn who had been the rector of Clapham in south London.

In December 2008, Vernon De Maynard, ( Chair – Clapham Park West Residents Association ( CPWRA )) contacted Lambeth Parks to find out why the pond and community garden had been allowed to fall into a state of disrepair.

He was regarded as the grand old man of the abolition struggle, and although a driving force in its early days, his place had later been taken by others such as Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect.

He was the son of John Thornton ( 1729 – 90 ) of Clapham, London, who had been one of the early patrons of the evangelical movement in Britain.

Macaulay married Selina Mills of Bristol ( to whom he had been introduced by Hannah More ) on 26 August 1799, and they settled in Clapham, Surrey.

Although it has had a slow start and lags behind its neighbour Clapham, Earlsfield-with its schools and family facilities as well as its primary transport link ( see Earlsfield railway station ) into central London-has a strong housing market, though recently prices have been affected in line with broader market trends.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Clapham, believed to have been built in the 12th century. The main part of the village is known simply as The Street, a single long dead-end road coming off the A280 and containing the majority of the village's housing.

A turn-off from the A280 a few hundred metres to the south of The Street leads into Brickworks Lane ( although this name is not often commonly used ), named after the brickworks of the Clapham Common Brick & Tile Company which was based there from the early 20th century up until the 1970s, although the quantities of clay available meant that there had been brickmaking activity on the site since the 18th century.

For many years much of the land around Clapham was owned by the Dukes of Norfolk and subsequently, after a land exchange, by the Somerset family, although by the early 20th century most of the land owned by the family had been sold off or donated to the village.

Although sometimes said to have been coined by Raymond Lindeman in 1942, the term " ecosystem " first appeared in a 1935 publication by the British ecologist, Arthur Tansley, and had in 1930 been coined by Tansley's colleague, Roy Clapham.

Previously the collection had been located at Syon Park since 1973 and before that had formed part of the British Transport Museum at Clapham.

A horse bus had been used to bridge the gap between Wennington and Clapham during construction.

Thomas Clapham used a v-bottom in his " Nonpareil sharpies ", and Larry Huntington introduced a rounded, arc bottom that has been used by modern designers like Bruce Kirby and Reuel Parker.

The engine was restored by the Southern Railway to original condition ( it had remained as an A1, not having been rebuilt as an A1X ) and used at exhibitions, before being moved into the original British Transport Museum in Clapham.