If, like me, you've found yourself delayed at Clapham Junction, or at least alighted there disgruntled because the idea of becoming a flailing salmon at Waterloo is too much, there is somewhere good to eat nearby.
To reach Piggies Sandwich Bar, the Grant Road exit at Clapham Junction is required. I imagine it’s an exit lesser-known to most. It takes you into Battersea, though not that of chic riverside apartments, Little Waitrose and the Lululemon activewear joggers of Battersea Park, nor the Lavender Hill end where so much women’s suffrage and socialism was forged. It’s somewhere in between. A dead zone. An untouched part of London, residential and tired.
