The Common Story makes an excellent present for anybody interested in the history of Tooting.

Now in its second edition, The Common Story is a comprehensive history of Tooting Common. The book was published with lottery funding and Tooting History Group members played a major part in doing the archival research for the book.

The Historical Association in its review said: “This book traces the development, and survival, of this open area and its surrounding neighbourhood. Its remarkable escape from developers in the 1870s is a crucial turning point in its history.”

Price £10 plus £2.50 postage and packing.

This is an account of the large psychiatric asylum — later renamed hospital — that stood on the edge of Tooting Common in south-west London from 1903 until 1995.

Tooting Bec Asylum Remembered aims to preserve the memory of the thousands of patients and staff who lived large parts of their lives in Tooting Bec Hospital using documentary evidence and images, and, at the same time, to uncover some of the history of the site on which the Heritage Park Estate was built after the hospital was demolished.

Price £5 plus £2.50 postage and packing.

The references and bibliography supporting the text of the book can by accessed by clicking here.