Tooting Bec Asylum was the fourth asylum hospital to be erected by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to supplement the existing institutions at Leavesden, Caterham and Darenth. Towards the end of C19th the MAB purchased 27 acres of parkland. This site became Tooting Bec Hospital Foundation stone laid in 1897 and the initial work was completed in 1903 at the … Continue reading Tooting Bec Asylum