House Clearance and Probate Valuation Clapham SW4

House Clearance and Chattels Valuation for Probate Services in Clapham

As a long established House Clearance and Probate Valuation Company based in Clapham we are able to provide our services anywhere in the SW4 postcode area.

The majority of our work is by recommendation, and we have been carrying house clearances and probate valuation work in Clapham for many years. By reputation, and as a local company, we are regularly instructed by solicitors, executors and private clients to carry out all types of probate valuations and house clearance.

After valuing the contents and chattels of an estate for probate purposes, we are able to clear the house of furniture, personal effects and all residual contents, and arrange for items to be sent to auction, delivered to a location of your choice, donated to charity, recycled, or where necessary, disposed of, leaving it ready for sale or transfer to a landlord.

We also carry out house clearances in circumstances where there is no probate valuation involved.

We specialise in clearing large heavily furnished, cluttered or neglected properties possibly the result of ill health or compulsive hoarding (OCD). After receiving your instruction we can clear your property quickly and methodically, and during the process retain any personal items, documents or concealed valuables for your examination. Our experienced staff will make the whole process easy and stress free, even if you are organising the clearance from another part of the country or overseas.

We provide our own closed vehicles, (contents not visible externally, so as to ensure privacy) to clear away all household contents. Parking permits are arranged and included in all our quotes. Our aim is to assist you fully by taking care of the entire job from start to finish.

If you need a Valuation for Probate or a House Clearance in Clapham Call us now on 0800 567 7769.

For free advice and more detailed information contact Jeff Avery.

Our initial consultation and all our quotations are free and without obligation.

Private, trade or solicitors references provided on request.

Some interesting facts about Clapham, London SW4

Clapham is an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Clapham dates back to Anglo-Saxon times: the name is thought to derive from the Old English clopp(a) + ham or hamm, meaning Homestead/enclosure near a hill.

According to the history of the Clapham family maintained by the College of Heralds, in 965 AD King Edgar of England gave a grant of land at Clapham to Jonas, son of the Duke of Lorraine, and Jonas was thenceforth known as Jonas "de [of] Clapham". The family remained in possession of the land until Jonas' great-great grandson Arthur sided against William the Conqueror during the Norman invasion of 1066 and, losing the land, fled to the north (where the Clapham family remained thereafter, primarily in Yorkshire).

Clapham appears in Domesday Book as Clopeham. It was held by Goisfrid (Geoffrey) de Mandeville. Its domesday assets were 3 hides; 6 ploughs, 5 acres (20,000 m2) of meadow. It rendered £7 10s 0d, and was located in Brixton hundred.

In the late seventeenth century large country houses began to be built there, and throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth century it was favoured by the wealthier merchant classes of the City of London, who built many large and gracious houses and villas around Clapham Common and in the Old Town. Samuel Pepys spent the last two years of his life in Clapham, living with his friend, protégé at the Admiralty and former servant William Hewer, until his death there in 1703.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Clapham Sect were a group of upper class (mostly evangelical Anglican) social reformers who lived around the Common. They included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and Zachary Macaulay, father of the historian Thomas Macaulay, as well as William Smith, M.P., the dissenter and Unitarian. They were very prominent in campaigns for the abolition of slavery and child labour, and for prison reform. They also promoted missionary activities in Britain's colonies.

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. Most of their grand houses had been demolished by the middle of the twentieth century, though a few remain around the Common and in the Old Town, as do a substantial number of fine late eighteenth and early nineteenth century houses. In the twentieth century, Clapham was seen as an unremarkable suburb, often cited as representing the ordinary people: hence the so-called "man on the Clapham omnibus".

However, in recent years it has undergone considerable regeneration, and is now regarded as a fashionable place to live for the middle classes, within easy commuting distance of the city centre and the main railway termini for transport to airports at Heathrow and Gatwick and the south of England. It is considered a hub for 20 somethings who move here after University.

Clapham was located in the county of Surrey until the creation of the County of London in 1889. It became part of the new Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth in 1900. In 1965, Clapham was transferred to the London Borough of Lambeth.

The interesting facts on this page about Clapham, London SW4 were derived from Wikipedia

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