In 1954 the St George’s Hospital Group based at Lanesborough House, Hyde Park Corner, took over the former Grove Fever Hospital, which occupied the Tooting site since the 1890s. In 1973 construction began on the modern hospital and medical school to replace the Victorian buildings, and St George’s transferred there from its original location in 1980. Laing began construction on the £16.9m Phase 2A extension in June 1984 and it was completed in late 1988. The development included a ward block of 376 beds, Accident & Emergency, Out-Patients and Radiography Departments, operating theatres and a chapel.
Gaps left in the brickwork skin of the existing building, exposing the internal blockwork, show where the new block will abut it and where internal links will potentially be made between the two.
This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.
This is part of the Series: JLP01/09 John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives 1974-1994; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
Late 20th Century Hospital, Construction, Health And Welfare, People At Work
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