Erection date: 2016
Site of Tooting Military Hospital during World War 1; St Benedict's Hospital 1931 - 1981; and previously St Joseph's RC College and Tooting Home for the Age and Infirm.
2016
Wandsworth Council
SW17, Church Lane
The site has been redeveloped for housing. What remains of the hospital are these entrance gate piers (at the north-east corner of the site), and the main block's portico and turret.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Benedict's Hospital - piers
Hill House, built in 1802, was the manor house on this site. It was bought by...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Benedict's Hospital - piers
London borough. Formed from the former Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and ...
Rudolf Nureyev, 1938 - 1993, ballet dancer, lived here. English Heritage
Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond;...
Thanks to our colleague Alan Patient for providing this photo.
Harold Laski, 1893 - 1950, teacher and political philosopher lived here, 1926 - 1950. Greater London Council
Alan John Blanc's birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1929 in the Edmonton registration district. He was the son of Albert Francis Blanc (1888-1973) and Winifred Evelyn Blanc née Kirtland (1...
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
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