Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital

Map showing the location of Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital within East Sussex.

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

Objectives

The hospital was built in 1924, 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 1903.

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

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

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.

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.

External links

• Friends of The Tidemills and Newhaven Eastside Conservation Group
• Newhaven Museum

Coordinates: 50°46′56″N 0°04′11″E / 50.78210°N 0.06965°E / 50.78210; 0.06965