hey everyone here is my report on Cambridge military hospital visited with aquanuke, Mr Bones and 2 non forum members. this place is fantastic its pretty big with lots of little gems hidden around. The electricity is still on in some parts of the hospital as well!!...
Upon entery... we arrived one morning nice and early and from the minute we pulled up we could see the security guard doing his rounds. we hung around for abit until we could no longer see him and then we made a break for it.
Once we where inside the fence it took quiet a while to spot an entry into the buildings when all of a sudden one of the group happened to spot a fairly easy way in.. here are my pictures of what we found i hope you enjoy then
here is some history of the place...
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.
Upon entery... we arrived one morning nice and early and from the minute we pulled up we could see the security guard doing his rounds. we hung around for abit until we could no longer see him and then we made a break for it.
Once we where inside the fence it took quiet a while to spot an entry into the buildings when all of a sudden one of the group happened to spot a fairly easy way in.. here are my pictures of what we found i hope you enjoy then
here is some history of the place...
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.
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