Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital

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Map sources for Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital at grid reference TQ460001

The nurses home was inland and the hospital built on foundations on the shingle beach itself

The ruins of the Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital stand to the seaward side of Tide Mills, east of Newhaven, Sussex, in England.

1 Objectives
2 The ruins
3 The Marine Hospital history
4 Associated organisations
5 External links

[edit] Objectives

The hospital was founded to provide aftercare and recovery for disabled boys who had undergone surgery. Plaques on the site speak of a charitable foundation, the "Guild of the Poor Brave Things", that founded the hospital as part of the Chailey Heritage created by Dame Grace Kimmins in the mid 19th century.

[edit] The ruins

The ruins show very weathered concrete foundations onto which were fixed what appear to be wooden buildings. Plaques on the site show beds wheeled into the fresh air - "Nature's Antibiotic". Very close to, and on the landward side of the hospital, was the Lily Warren nurses' home

[edit] The Marine Hospital history

The beach hospital was part of the Chailey Heritage Hospital and was an extension of the main hospital to try and build strength up in the boys by the spartan conditions and sea bathing, not just for post operative case or for "cripples", but it was also used for asthma cases.

[edit] Associated organisations

Matron Powell, Successor to Grace Kimmins realised that once the boys were 15 they were thrown out into the world. She started Searchlight a set of workshops and a home to teach useful skills.