Cambridge Military Hospital opened in 1879 to serve the British Army. It was also used by the NHS in later years and closed in 1996.
Aldershot, Hampshire, UK Abandoned History
Cambridge Military Hospital, or CMH was built to serve the various British Army camps based around Aldershot. The hospital which was built by Messrs Martin Wells and Co. of Aldershot opened in 1879.
The hospital does not have any associations with the town of Cambridge, as its name would suggest. Cambridge Military Hospital was actually named after Prince George, Duke of Cambridge who was the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army at the time. [1]
The hospital is famous for its “mile long corridor”. The corridor probably isn’t quite that long but it certainly does feel it when walking down it. The plan was to have a number of self-contained wards, each for a different regiment, connected to the corridor, but the plans were changed and the hospital opened with each area specialising in a different type of treatment instead.
CMH was the first place in the UK where plastic surgery was performed. Captain Gillies had been on leave in France where he met with the surgeon Hippolyte Morestin and learnt from him while he reconstructed the faces of people who suffered with cancer. Upon his return, Captain Gillies put these skills into practice on people injured in battle. [2]
The British army saw a decline in demand after the second world war, and as a result civilian patients began being admitted to the hospital. The hospital closed in 1996 due to the high cost of running the old buildings.
Louise Margaret Maternity Hospital
Cambridge Military Hospital Main Building
The X-Ray Department
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References
1. Source: http://www.qaranc.co.uk/cambridgemilitaryhospital.php
2. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Military_Hospital
Ace report mate! that trolly has eyes! love the doors with the lights on inside shot of the maternity bit aceness!
Omg I love every single picture!!! Those doors, the arches, the staircase love it all!! Good work!
Thank you very much, this was such a fun place to visit and I’m pleased you like the pictures
Love the pictures haha and I love a bit of staircase porn too…. Haha definitely my favorite type of picture
The Cambridge hospital did not have a maternity ward
There was a complete hospital next door for this called the Louise Margaret maternity hospital
They were not joined together at all I was born in this hospital 46 years ago and had my children there twenty plus years ago
Gary was also born there in 1984.
Nice report
on some of the pictures the walls look like they were bleeding.
I had one of my sons at the Louise Margaret maternity hospital next door to CMH, which had no maternity wing……they were 2 separate hospitals. Great photos though
Hi there, I’m looking for details of a children’s home called st Mary’s in Aldershot that was visited by queen Elizabeth in 1938. Someone has said they thought it was on the grounds of the Cambridge Hospital. Do you know anything about that?
Great pictures.
Thanks
Nic
Hi Nicola, sorry I don’t know anything about that. I know there are a number of other buildings within the grounds, but unfortunately I don’t know what many of them are called or what they did.
I had 3 children in Louise Margaret hospital. 1981. 1988 and 1990 was a beautiful hospital .
Very beautiful,decay at its finest
was stationed there in1969-73 most enjoyable time loved the area and the hospital such a pity Paul Johns RAMC