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 ...
This plaque summarises the history of the Hospital and celebrates the opening of the new school in 1875.
The “fireman” on a steam train was the man who stoked the engine. You’ve seen him in cowboy films, furiously shovelling coal into the fir...
Site of Anchor Brewery List of brewers: The Monger family 1616-1670 Josiah Child 1670-1693 Edmund Halsey MP 1693-1729 Ralph Thrale 1729-1...
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
2018: We are grateful to Sugár Istvánné Ilona for pointing out that the plaque's Hungarian is incorrect: "Liszt Târsagâg" should read "Li...
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