Sir Desmond Mpilo Tutu OMSG CH GCStJ is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was the Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then the Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position.
In October 1994 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by South Bank University.
The University has had sports facilities in Dulwich from very early on. The Borough Polytechnic initially rented a field at Red Post Hill from the Governors of the Dulwich College Estate as a space for athletics. As the Institute grew the field became insufficient and in 1909 a larger field of nine acres was leased at Burbage Road and Turney Road. and the first sports ground was built on by William Penn School. In 1933 the playing field was extended by an additional eleven acres and in 1938 a pavilion was built, which was used during WW2 by the Army for barrage balloons.
Iain Tuckett MBE is a regeneration and community housing pioneer and is executive director of Coin Street Community Builders.
Iain Tuckett was made an Honorary Fellow of the University in 2003.
South Bank Polytechnic staff
The Tower Block, Metal Block, Extension Block and Joseph Lancaster Block at 103 Borough Road, Southwark were officially opened on 9 July 1969 by the Duke of Edinburgh. The buildings were designed by Norman & Dawbarn Architects who also designed the Polytechnic's Turney Road sports pavilion and the BBC Television Centre at Shepherds Bush.
The Tower Restaurant opened in 1990 and was situated on the third floor of Tower Block. The Students Refectory was located on the second floor of Tower Block.
Staff member, Department of Business Studies, South Bank Polytechnic
Thorpe Coombe Hospital is a psychiatric unit and former maternity hospital in Walthamstow, north-east London, and part of North East London NHS Mental Health Trust. The hospital was opened as a maternity hospital in 1934, making use of part of a mansion which had been owned by Octavius Wigram. It ceased maternity facilities in 1973 and was subsequently used as a nurses' home, then a treatment centre for Alzheimer's disease patients, and latterly an out-patients and inpatient service psychiatric hospital.
The Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London. First opened in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally closed in 2005. Its staff and services were transferred to various sites within the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, with a history dating back to 1746, merged with the medical school of University College London in 1987.
Hackney Hospital started life in 1750 as an infirmary within the workhouse on Homerton High Street. By the 1860s the infirmary was entirely separate from the main workhouse building. This allowed the infirmary to expand to 606 beds with a nursing staff of 45. By the 1930s the Hackney Institution, as the infirmary had become known, was taken over by the London County Council. In 1948, the Hospital became part of the National Health Service and the local Hackney Group of hospitals. In 1987 a new hospital was opened in the area, the Homerton, and general services transferred there. Eventually, only psychiatric and geriatric services remained, but in 1995 these were also transferred to the Homerton and the Hackney Hospital closed.
The Tavern was one of the Student Union venues in the George Overend Building on Keyworth Street. It was styled as a traditional pub.
The Regeneration Practice is a London-based architectural studio recognised in awards, publications and exhibits both nationally and Internationally. Established in 1995 by Paul Latham, the firm has an impressive record of creating innovative and environmentally responsible architectural space which combines historic and contemporary narratives to create a delightful architecture.
Produced in one document with "Violence and Young Minds" - the effects of violence on children's mental health
The Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies was set up in 1970. It became the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting in 1983, which then became the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2002.