CAMBRIDGE MILITARY HOSPITAL, ALDERSHOT.
After changing my mind about heading 'oop narth' at the last minute and a miserable fail at my first port of call, I found myself peering through the fences of this southern beauty.
Failure was not an option today as this had happened here a few weeks earlier! After some fence vaulting and squeezing I was in! PRAISE THE LORD!!
The first thing which struck me was the deathly silence, just the odd banging window and the wind occasionally howling through the clock tower, VERY atmospheric! The second thing that struck me was the peely paint... Mmmmmm! Lots of it too. Together with one of the longest corridors I've seen yet this place rates as one of my faves! BOSTIN!!
Failure was not an option today as this had happened here a few weeks earlier! After some fence vaulting and squeezing I was in! PRAISE THE LORD!!
The first thing which struck me was the deathly silence, just the odd banging window and the wind occasionally howling through the clock tower, VERY atmospheric! The second thing that struck me was the peely paint... Mmmmmm! Lots of it too. Together with one of the longest corridors I've seen yet this place rates as one of my faves! BOSTIN!!
Heres a bit of history before the pix...
The Cambridge Military Hospital, built by Messrs Martin Wells and Co. of Aldershot, was located at Stanhope Lines. It was named after Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and opened on 18 July 1879. In the First World War, the Cambridge Hospital was the first base hospital to receive casualties directly from the Western Front. The Cambridge Hospital was also the first place where plastic surgery was performed in the British Empire. Captain Gillies (later Sir Harold Gillies), met Hippolyte Morestin, while on leave in Paris in 1915. Morestin was reconstructing faces in the Val-de-Grace Hospital in Paris. Gillies fell in love with the work, and at the end of 1915 was sent back from France to start a Plastic Unit in the Cambridge Hospital.
After the Second World War, with the decline in importance of Britain's military commitments, civilians were admitted to the hospital. It pioneered the supply of portable operating theatres and supplies for frontline duties. The hospital also contained the Army Chest Unit. It was closed on 2 February 1996 due to the high cost of running the old building as well as the discovery of asbestos in the walls.
After the Second World War, with the decline in importance of Britain's military commitments, civilians were admitted to the hospital. It pioneered the supply of portable operating theatres and supplies for frontline duties. The hospital also contained the Army Chest Unit. It was closed on 2 February 1996 due to the high cost of running the old building as well as the discovery of asbestos in the walls.
ON WITH THE PIX... HOPE YOU LIKE 'EM!
Thanks for looking... 
