Tooting Bec Hospital

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Tooting Bec Hospital
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Tooting Bec Hospital
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Geography
Location Tooting Bec, London, England
Coordinates 51°25′51″N0°09′05″W / 51.4307°N 0.1514°W / 51.4307; -0.1514 Coordinates: 51°25′51″N0°09′05″W / 51.4307°N 0.1514°W / 51.4307; -0.1514
Organisation
Care system NHS
Hospital type Specialist
Services
Emergency department N/A
Speciality Psychiatric Hospital
History
Founded1903
Closed1995
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Tooting Bec Hospital was a mental facility in Tooting Bec, London, England.

Tooting Bec human settlement in United Kingdom

Tooting Bec is in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south London, England.

History

The hospital, which was designed by Arthur and Christopher Harston using a dual pavilion layout, opened as the Tooting Bec Asylum in January 1903. [1] It became Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1924 and, after suffering some bomb damage during the Second World War, it joined the National Health Service as Tooting Bec Hospital in 1948. [2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1995. [1] The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped by Fairview Homes for residential use as "Heritage Park". [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tooting Bec Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "Tooting Bec Hospital, London". National Archives. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "Tooting Bec". Hidden London. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
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