Tooting Bec Hospital stood in the grounds of what is now the Heritage Park Estate on Tooting Bec Road between Franciscan Road and Church Lane. It was opened in 1903 by the Metropolitan Asylum Board and was designed to take the overflow of patients from their Caterham and Leavesden Asylums. At it’s peak, it accommodated over 2200 patients. It finally closed in 1995 and was sold and redeveloped as The Heritage Park Estate.

This talk will give a history of the Asylum as originally built and the changes in Mental Health provision that lead to it’s closure. People came to Tooting to work (and live) in the hospital from all over the world. Should there be plaques on the Heritage Park site to remember the hospital? Are you interested in an Oral History project connected with the hospital and it’s former patients and staff?

Come along to the All Saints Parish Church Hall (Bruce Hall) on Tuesday December 3rd at 7.30pm and hear all about this Tooting History Group/local residents project. (Entrance at rear of car park on Brudenell Road).