Harts Hill House, 87 Sarsfeld Road, Balham, London

A Memory of Balham.

My Great Aunt Alice Yates bought a house here at the end of the 1890s. It may have been newly built then. It is I believe still standing but whether it is still called Harts Hill House is another matter. It was named after her parent's house in Harts Hill, Brierley Hill, Staffordshire which certainly no longer exists. Her husband died 1897 and having two very young children to raise she became a landlady.