Been wanting to explore this place for bloomin ages and see "those doors" before the place gets turned into some gash flats or something along those lines.
After a bit of planning I met up with Ben (sorry mate dont know your 28 name) and ACID-REFLUX popped down for the weekend for some exploring shenanigans.
Once we had met, ditched the cars and started our trek up to the Hospital we realised it wasnt going to be as easy as me might have thought. Once we got past the various obstacles that the secca and such like had put in our way we were at the top of the hill and on the site of the hospital. After a bit of a recce we soon realised we couldnt get in the main hospital, and it was very light at this point, so we decided to go for the Maternity buildings.
After a long time looking for access and a close call with a secca (I was stood out in the open and he walked past, about 6 metres away from me) we managed to find a way in and got in the place.
All I can say is the place was worth the hassle, so much decay and peely porn. What made the day even better is the Secca/Gurkhas knew we were in there (probably due to Ben dropping his torch every 5 minutes lol), and their dogs too, but they couldnt find us. I even watched them walking round the building looking in the gaps in the boards for us hahaha
We did have a bit of a wait to get out of the place and when I say a bit I mean 3 hours, due mainly to the secca being parked right in clear sight of us. So we just chilled out, chatted and Ben assaulted ACID-REFLUX with different sized foliage haha.
Need to go back and get in the main at some point, should be interesting.....
The History:
The CMH was built by Messrs Martin Wells and Co. of Aldershot. The building costs were approximately £45,758.
The first patients admitted to the CMH were on Friday 18 July 1879. They either walked or were taken by cart ambulance from the Connaught Hospital.
Juliet Piggott cites in her book Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Famous Regts. S) that the House of Commons were presented with the plans of the Cambridge Military Hospital Aldershot as early as the year 1858.
Early Matrons at the CMH Aldershot included Dame Maud McCarthy.
The hospital was built on a hill because current clinical thinking at the time thought that the wind would sweep away any infection and clean the air.
The CMH was famed for its supposedly mile long corridor. We have never measured it but walking from casualty down to the children's ward often felt like it! The original plan was to have a series of self contained wards for regiments all joined onto the corridor. It was hoped that this would also reduce cross infection. By the time the hospital opened it had been decided to run the hospital as areas of treatment rather than type of cap badge.
The hospital soon became a fully functioning hospital and was the first in the UK to receive battle casualties directly from the front of World War One.
The Cambridge Military Hospital was the first British Military Hospital to open a plastic surgery unit. This was opened by Captain Gillies. He had been in France on leave in June 1915 and met the surgeon Hippolyte Morestin and watched him perform facial reconstructions on patients with cancer. He learnt from the surgeon and brought his experience and new knowledge to England and was soon operating on soldiers back from the Battle of the Somme of World War One with facial gunshot and shrapnel wounds and injuries. Dental work was performed by William Kelsey Fry and the plastic surgery unit was overseen by Sir W. Arbuthnot.
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 a bit of planning I met up with Ben (sorry mate dont know your 28 name) and ACID-REFLUX popped down for the weekend for some exploring shenanigans.
Once we had met, ditched the cars and started our trek up to the Hospital we realised it wasnt going to be as easy as me might have thought. Once we got past the various obstacles that the secca and such like had put in our way we were at the top of the hill and on the site of the hospital. After a bit of a recce we soon realised we couldnt get in the main hospital, and it was very light at this point, so we decided to go for the Maternity buildings.
After a long time looking for access and a close call with a secca (I was stood out in the open and he walked past, about 6 metres away from me) we managed to find a way in and got in the place.
All I can say is the place was worth the hassle, so much decay and peely porn. What made the day even better is the Secca/Gurkhas knew we were in there (probably due to Ben dropping his torch every 5 minutes lol), and their dogs too, but they couldnt find us. I even watched them walking round the building looking in the gaps in the boards for us hahaha
We did have a bit of a wait to get out of the place and when I say a bit I mean 3 hours, due mainly to the secca being parked right in clear sight of us. So we just chilled out, chatted and Ben assaulted ACID-REFLUX with different sized foliage haha.
Need to go back and get in the main at some point, should be interesting.....
The History:
The CMH was built by Messrs Martin Wells and Co. of Aldershot. The building costs were approximately £45,758.
The first patients admitted to the CMH were on Friday 18 July 1879. They either walked or were taken by cart ambulance from the Connaught Hospital.
Juliet Piggott cites in her book Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Famous Regts. S) that the House of Commons were presented with the plans of the Cambridge Military Hospital Aldershot as early as the year 1858.
Early Matrons at the CMH Aldershot included Dame Maud McCarthy.
The hospital was built on a hill because current clinical thinking at the time thought that the wind would sweep away any infection and clean the air.
The CMH was famed for its supposedly mile long corridor. We have never measured it but walking from casualty down to the children's ward often felt like it! The original plan was to have a series of self contained wards for regiments all joined onto the corridor. It was hoped that this would also reduce cross infection. By the time the hospital opened it had been decided to run the hospital as areas of treatment rather than type of cap badge.
The hospital soon became a fully functioning hospital and was the first in the UK to receive battle casualties directly from the front of World War One.
The Cambridge Military Hospital was the first British Military Hospital to open a plastic surgery unit. This was opened by Captain Gillies. He had been in France on leave in June 1915 and met the surgeon Hippolyte Morestin and watched him perform facial reconstructions on patients with cancer. He learnt from the surgeon and brought his experience and new knowledge to England and was soon operating on soldiers back from the Battle of the Somme of World War One with facial gunshot and shrapnel wounds and injuries. Dental work was performed by William Kelsey Fry and the plastic surgery unit was overseen by Sir W. Arbuthnot.
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 3 hours of being cornered I even wished i hadn"t found the access at one point lol
