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The history
This has been done on here many times so I’ll be brief
The Cambridge Military Hospital was built by Messrs Martin Wells and Co. of Aldershot.
It was named after Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and opened on 18 July 1879.
In the First World War the Hospital was the first base hospital to receive casualties directly from the Western Front. Cambridge Hospital was also the first place where plastic surgery was performed in the British Empire.
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.
The Explore
Having failed here a few years back and met a full on nasty security guy I never ventured back.
But while I was in this neck of the woods recently I decided to go have a look, I went with a non-member and actually had a bit of success
We managed to get into the main building and had a good three hours in there before exciting and meeting an ever so polite security man, who asked us to please leave as he knew we were in there and we might get in trouble. Shockingly the security guys have never seen inside, what a waste!!!
I must admit our main aim was to get up the clock tower, but the rest of the inside was pretty cool too. I loved the old signage and notes painted on the walls. I noticed if you looked closed you could see older signs painted underneath.
I can only imagine that in its heyday CMH was stunning inside and out.
We eventually made our way to the clock tower and snapped a few pics and checked out the awesome mechanism to run all four clock faces
Hope you like the pics
This has been done on here many times so I’ll be brief
The Cambridge Military Hospital was built by Messrs Martin Wells and Co. of Aldershot.
It was named after Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and opened on 18 July 1879.
In the First World War the Hospital was the first base hospital to receive casualties directly from the Western Front. Cambridge Hospital was also the first place where plastic surgery was performed in the British Empire.
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.
The Explore
Having failed here a few years back and met a full on nasty security guy I never ventured back.
But while I was in this neck of the woods recently I decided to go have a look, I went with a non-member and actually had a bit of success
We managed to get into the main building and had a good three hours in there before exciting and meeting an ever so polite security man, who asked us to please leave as he knew we were in there and we might get in trouble. Shockingly the security guys have never seen inside, what a waste!!!
I must admit our main aim was to get up the clock tower, but the rest of the inside was pretty cool too. I loved the old signage and notes painted on the walls. I noticed if you looked closed you could see older signs painted underneath.
I can only imagine that in its heyday CMH was stunning inside and out.
We eventually made our way to the clock tower and snapped a few pics and checked out the awesome mechanism to run all four clock faces
Hope you like the pics
