The southern part of Balham, towards Tooting Bec, near the 1930s block of flats called Du Cane Court and the area to the south of Wandsworth Common, comes under the SW17 postcode.

Balham is situated between four south London commons: Clapham Common to the north, Wandsworth Common to the west, Tooting Graveney Common to the south, and the adjoining Tooting Bec Common to the east – the latter two historically distinct areas are referred to by both Wandsworth Council and some local people as Tooting Common.

Historically a part of Surrey, the area takes its name from the old village of Battersea, an island settlement established in the river delta of the Falconbrook ; a river that rises in Tooting Bec Common and flows underground through south London to the River Thames.

Upper Tooting, or Tooting Bec, appears as a distinct area and was held by the Abbey of Hellouin Bec, in Normandy, thus acquiring the " Bec " in its name.

Upper Tooting Road, which runs between Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway station, has a huge number of Asian ( UK definition i. e. Indian / Pakistani etc.

Historically this was two separate open spaces: Tooting Graveney Common nearer to Tooting, and Tooting Bec Common towards Streatham.

The commons are home to Tooting Bec Lido, which is 90 metres long and 30 metres wide.

Tooting is positioned on the Northern Line — with stations at the top and the bottom of the hill that slopes down the High Street, Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway.

* Tooting Bec Cup – awarded since 1924 to the PGA member who records the lowest single round during the championship.

The Braid Taylor Memorial Medal and the Tooting Bec Cup are restricted to members born in, or with a parent or parents born in, the UK or Republic of Ireland.

Brian Paddick was born on 24 April 1958 in Balham in London, England, and spent his early years in Mitcham and Tooting Bec.

Tooting appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges.

Tooting Bec appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges.

The Romans built a road, which was later named Stane Street by the English, from London ( Londinium ) to Chichester ( Noviomagus Regnorum ), and which passed through Tooting.

The first South Indian restaurant in Tooting was Sree Krishna, established in 1973 but it has since been joined by many other similar establishments like Apollo Banana Leaf, Radha Krishna Bhavan and Dosa N Chutney ; all three of which are situated South of the Broadway crossroads.

Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front ( the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends ), the goals of which are " Power to the People " and " Freedom for Tooting ".

Series 4 had an entirely new title sequence which began with Tucker's van driving past Tooting Broadway Tube Station with ' The Revolution is Back ' painted on it.

" The Glorious Day ", which Wolfie had always been plotting, came at the end of the third series, in an episode of the same name, in which the Tooting Popular Front ' liberate ' a Scorpion tank and use it to invade the Houses of Parliament, only to find the place empty due to a Parliamentary recess.

Earlsfield is not as well known as its neighbouring areas such as Tooting, Clapham, Balham, and Battersea, which allows for a low key way of life while still being close to Central London.

It shares its main hospital site in Tooting, England with the St George's, University of London which trains NHS staff and carries out advanced medical research.

Saint Anselm gives his name to the modern Roman Catholic church which sits on the corner of Balham High Road and Tooting Bec Road.

A relief sculpture of Saint Anselm visiting the Totinges tribe ( from which Tooting as a whole gets its name ) is visible on the exterior of Wandsworth Town Hall.

Tooting Bec sits on Stane Street, a former Roman Road which linked Roman London with Chichester to the southwest.

The area includes Tooting Commons, which features Tooting Bec Lido, the largest fresh water pool in England as well as a small athletics stadium.

But Battersea also stretches south between Wandsworth Common and Clapham Common to include Balham ward, which is actually only the eastern end of Balham ( the rest being in Tooting ).

Tooting Bec Lido was nearly closed as a result of Wandsworth council's financial cutbacks in the early 1990s which resulted in the closure of the borough's other lido at King George's Park.

This led to a short spell at Tooting & Mitcham United, which lasted until the end of the season.

During this period, the interest in R & B and soul music increased, with a small number of clubs and bars holding events ; such as Henri's at the Bedford Head in London's Covent Garden, 6T's ( later to move to the Starlight club in West Hampstead, which in turn moved to 100 Club ), the Top Alex in Southend, the Hercules in Lambeth North, The Castle in Tooting, Cheeky Pete's in Richmond, the Mildmay Tavern in Dalston, and the Crystal Palace Hotel.

Scottish singer-songwriter Sandi Thom found fame after she webcast 21 performances from her basement flat in Tooting between February and March 2006.

They moved to Tooting in 1987 and her son went to a Montessori nursery school.

Patricia Maynard was born in Beighton, West Riding of Yorkshire, brought up in Tooting Bec, South London and went to school in Battersea, just down the road from the Old Vic where she learned her love of Shakespeare.

Tooting comedy double act Colin & Rob ( Colin Leggo & Rob Tofield ) ran Comedy at the Kirk at The Selkirk for four years until 2011, when they opened Comedy Trumpet.

The Member of Parliament for Tooting is Sadiq Khan ( Labour Party ), first elected at the 2005 General Election to represent the parliamentary constituency of Tooting.

A large open area, popularly known as the Tooting Commons, lies at the northern end of Tooting.

who play at Prince George's Fields and Tooting & Mitcham United F. C.

A collaboration with St George's, University of London ( SGUL ), the faculty is based at St. George's Hospital in Tooting, and Kingston Hill ( KH ) and Penrhyn Road ( PR ) at Kingston University.

White was born in Streathbourne Road, Tooting, London, England, and studied at Hillcroft Comprehensive ( Later renamed ( Ernest Bevin College ).

He was educated at Bec Grammar School in Tooting Bec, and at Sutton Manor High School ( now Sutton Grammar School ), in Sutton.

In an earlier version of the Ringways Plan it would have continued into central London where it would have met the Balham Loop spur from Ringway 1 ( the London Motorway Box ) at Tooting.

Leno died at his home in London on 31 October 1904, aged 43, and was buried at Lambeth cemetery, Tooting.

On leaving school, at the age of 17, Collins enrolled at a teachers ' training college in Tooting, south London.

* Program-touring company at Granada, Tooting, October 1950

By the summer of 2011, over 1, 000 players were regularly taking part in week night evening leagues across London at locations such as Finsbury Park, Gladstone Park, Wandsworth Town, Tooting Bec, Richmond, Hoxton, Highbury and Southwark Park.

While on staff at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall ( 1906 – 1908 ), Frederick Joseph Ricketts was married to Miss Annie Louisa Holmes at the Parish Church of All Saints, Tooting Graveney, South London, on 5 September 1907.