Chesham Cottage Hospital, Chesham, April 2009

I had been meaning to visit this place for as long as I can remember and finally got motivated enough to do it after someone posted some pictures up of it on one of the numerous urbex forums. The problem with it is that its just a little bit too small and stripped of anything of any major interest but on arrival I thought there was still some mileage in it. The whole place reminded me of Harperbury Hospital in that it has decayed to much the same degree and so very little of the actual character of the place remains. It was opened in the late 18th C and was run voluntarily until the NHS took over in 1948. Before closing in 2004, it offered the following heath services - physiotherapy, phlebotomy, podiatry, X-ray, consultant outpatient clinics, audiology, enuretics. As an aside, this explore was probably one of the least enjoyable I ever have done; for a start I went solo - I don't scare easily but this place soon started to get to me. Most of it is pitch black and there was evidence that the local kids are using it for various dubious activities. It was absolutely tipping down so I got a right soaking and the (surprising loud) sound of water dripping through the building made jump quite a few times. Not good.

I also came across these old pictures from here.

Chesham Hospital Xmas Dinner 1986..

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Chesham Cottage Hospital garden party, around 1915

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