Back to photostream

Tooting Military Hospital

This college and then workhouse became a military hospital in the First War, including dysentry and TB beds as well as more general injuries. It continued in use for shell shocked soldiers are the war, becoming a general hospital and closing in 1981. The site is now housing.

 

The card reads, 'Dear Roy, Aunty Floss told me how rarely you can sing. I hope you won't lose your voice before I come home because I want to hear you. Goodbye, Daddy'. 9th April, 1917

 

For more details, see:-

 

ezitis.myzen.co.uk/stbenedicts.html

1,829 views
1 fave
0 comments
Uploaded on April 22, 2013
Taken on April 21, 2013