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Cambridge Military Hospital
Visited with Chaos
History
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.
The Explore
We were getting restless moping about trying to work out what we were going to do with ourselves, one evening we decided on a last minute next day explore to this monolith of military medical history. We set off at 9am... a relatively late start considering some of the stupid times I decide to get up and go exploring, we made are way over and in....first stop...
the Morgue
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After our 'chilling' poke about in the morgue we headed off to the main building, hearing that there was a vigilant secca presence we made best effort to get in as quickly as possible....no such luck, we spent a while frustratingly wandering around with eyes in the back of our heads to the front of the building trying to find a way in until suddenly a head pops out of a broken window "ssssssh down there...window" We moved to where we thought he was pointing....nothing. Close to the 'obvious' hut we had to make a decision and quick, after poking around a bit more we needed to adapt, improvise and overcome, with a slip and slide danger entry and a bit of an ankle breaking drop we were in, we made our way to the clock tower and then pushed on through the building.
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On our way up to the clock tower we realised the epicness of this building, the corridors easily span 300 meters from point to point, and in the dark felt like they wen't on forever. We bumped into a couple other explorers one of which scared the living daylights out of us on a dark stairwell....cheers for that Webbly, we had a quick chat and pushed on.
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The building
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The mould slowly consuming the building was like nothing I've ever seen
We really underestimated the size of the place and wanted to get one more area in before we left this fantastic building home for some well deserved dinner.
The childrens ward
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The Bleeding Doors
Thanks for looking
Visited with Chaos
History
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.
The Explore
We were getting restless moping about trying to work out what we were going to do with ourselves, one evening we decided on a last minute next day explore to this monolith of military medical history. We set off at 9am... a relatively late start considering some of the stupid times I decide to get up and go exploring, we made are way over and in....first stop...
the Morgue
1.
2.
3.
4.
After our 'chilling' poke about in the morgue we headed off to the main building, hearing that there was a vigilant secca presence we made best effort to get in as quickly as possible....no such luck, we spent a while frustratingly wandering around with eyes in the back of our heads to the front of the building trying to find a way in until suddenly a head pops out of a broken window "ssssssh down there...window" We moved to where we thought he was pointing....nothing. Close to the 'obvious' hut we had to make a decision and quick, after poking around a bit more we needed to adapt, improvise and overcome, with a slip and slide danger entry and a bit of an ankle breaking drop we were in, we made our way to the clock tower and then pushed on through the building.
5.
On our way up to the clock tower we realised the epicness of this building, the corridors easily span 300 meters from point to point, and in the dark felt like they wen't on forever. We bumped into a couple other explorers one of which scared the living daylights out of us on a dark stairwell....cheers for that Webbly, we had a quick chat and pushed on.
6.
The building
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
The mould slowly consuming the building was like nothing I've ever seen
We really underestimated the size of the place and wanted to get one more area in before we left this fantastic building home for some well deserved dinner.
The childrens ward
14.
15.
16.
17.
The Bleeding Doors
Thanks for looking
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