Battersea and Clapham in 50 Buildings

Clapham and Battersea, both mediaeval villages to the south-west of London, enjoy rich and fascinating histories. In time Clapham became home to wealthy City merchants who built grand mansion houses around Clapham Common and Battersea’s fortunes changed for the better with the building of a bridge across the Thames in the 1770s, ending its prior isolation. Both areas were to benefit greatly from the coming of the railway in the mid-1800s and then the tube towards the end of the century whic...