Terribly common: London agent Marsh & Parsons is offering downloadable walking tours of Clapham, Battersea and Balham

Full marks to London estate agent Marsh & Parsons, which is offering downloadable walking tours of three London postcodes, each an hour long offering insights and directions to local attractions and historic sites and, one thing we particularly like, downloadale photos from times past for walkers to compare today’s modern world against.

Also, Marsh and Parsons has arranged for free or reduced-costs treats for walkers along the way in local cafés, restaurants and shops.

As a further inducement, the company is offering a gift to anyone who downloads the tour (the minor catch being you’ve got to to your local branch to claim it) as well as the chance to win a picnic for ten people.

The tours,which Marsh & Parsons says are designed to appeal to families, house-hunters wanting to get to know an area better or simply those interested in where they live, wind around SW London covering Balham, Clapham Old Town and Battersea.

One famous SW London site the Balham tour visits is Du Cane Court, a huge 1930s mansion block on Tooting Broadway that, its downloadable tour points out, has been used as a film location for the Agatha Christie’s Poirot films. But the PrimeLocation Blog would like to add to this – the building is also home to curmudgeonly comic and longstanding Balham resident Arthur (or Arfur) Smith. Also, during WW2 the German army planned to use the building as their UK headquarters following an invasion.

The tours will be available online to download from the Marsh & Parsons website until the end of this month (July 2010).

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