Space to Visit

Tooting Gardens is a small public park which opened to the public in 1912 and which is now sandwiched behind Tooting Leisure Centre and adjacent to St George’s Hospital. It was originally to the west of the Fountain Hospital which opened in 1893 as a fever hospital, with Grove Hospital to the south built in 1894-9. In the late 1960s St George’s Hospital moved here from Hyde Park when new buildings were added, phase one providing the medical school completed in 1977, phase two of hospital buildings by 1979. The park has been re-landscaped and has shrubberies, undulating ground and new trees