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Report - - Debenham House, Chalfont St Giles Epilepsy Centre - July 2023. | Asylums and Hospitals | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - Debenham House, Chalfont St Giles Epilepsy Centre - July 2023.

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Mikeymutt

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Seeing Mooksters report on this place I really fancied seeing it. The decay looked lovely inside and was up my street. Visited it with man gone wrong on a day of very heavy showers. We had to make our way through some thick overgrowth, and though it was not raining then it had been meaning we were soaked from the bushes. But once inside it definitely seemed worth it. It’s nice to get in a building that’s been closed this many years and with the decay in a very advanced state. I had a look upstairs but it was a bit pants with more graffiti up there than the rest. It’s not the biggest building being just a villa. The history stolen from Mooksters report.

In 1892 a group of physicians from the National Hospital for the Paralysed and the Epileptic in London was joined by various philanthropists and founded the National Society for the Employment of Epileptics. The first executive committee, including notable specialist physicians of the time John Hughlings Jackson, Sir William Gowers and David Ferrier had an aim of creating an agricultural epileptic colony where patients could live and work. Soon after in 1894, a 370-acre farm property was bought in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire and the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy was founded. Like other epileptic colonies of the time the buildings were separate large villa wards scattered over a sizeable area, with additional buildings being added and improvements made in the facilities to this day. The name was changed in 1907 to the National Society for Epilepsy and has provided residential care, rehabilitation and public education at the Chalfont site ever since, becoming the largest UK epilepsy charity in the process. In 1972 a new NHS facility was set up to provide care for patients with severe and complicated epilepsy, run jointly by the National Hospital and the NSE at Chalfont - this building was the forerunner to the current NHS inpatient and outpatient services at the Chalfont Centre. In 1995 a 1.5 tesla MRI scanner was installed at the centre, the first in the country dedicated to epilepsy research, which was superseded in 2004 by a 3 tesla MRI scanner, putting the NSE at the forefront of medical imaging research into epilepsy.

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dansgas1000

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Agreed the decay in there looks stunning, lots of nice peel. A shame it wasn't great weather wise but seemed to work in your favour with the shots as the lighting looks great. The room with the green shelving looks stunning especially.
 

Mikeymutt

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Agreed the decay in there looks stunning, lots of nice peel. A shame it wasn't great weather wise but seemed to work in your favour with the shots as the lighting looks great. The room with the green shelving looks stunning especially.
Cheers mate. Luckily it was not raining going in. But we still got soaked from the greenery. It rained hard whilst inside though. That room with the shelving was my favourite.
 
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