Hellingly Hospital - The East Sussex Mental Institution.

Hellingly Hospital - The East Sussex Mental Institution.
Hellingly, a Victorian hospital on a grand scale. Conceived in 1897, with landscaped surroundings high on a hill with therapeutic views across the countryside. An enclosed community, providing for itself...patients and staff lives exisiting in familiar corridors and buildings.
Closed down in the eary 1990's and left decaying ever since.

Friday 18 February 2011

Missing man mystery solved


Missing man mystery solved -

A gruesome find by a local resident, out walking close to the former Hellingly Hospital on 6 April, finally solved a 14-year mystery. As she made a detour from the main footpath, she came across what appeared to be a human skull in the undergrowth. Police were called and forensic examination found that the remains were those of a 71 year-old man reported missing in August 1988.

He had lived in Eastbourne but attended Hellingly Hospital for more than thirty years. His identification was confirmed by the presence of two small holes in the skull. These were the result of a rarely performed brain operation carried out on the man half a century ago to treat his mental health condition. An inquest can now, at long last, take place


5 comments:

  1. At last closure to this tale. As live-in students we were drafted in to do a search of the grounds and local country side one damp sunday. I'm glad someone finally found him (even if I can't remember his name)

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  2. I remember this man very well. I was one of the last people to see him alive as he left the reception. He was always going to the Martlett sometimes with his friend Freddie. WD was (nearly)always cheerful. May he be resting in peace

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