- Pen 3 is the second most northerly of the pens on the eastern side of the airfield and faces west.
- Today, the pen is complete apart from the front brick walls of each arm. It is the only pen not on private land with the original centre wall section remaining.
- The pen is of the smaller type found at Kenley, the original two bays would have been approximately 16.5m x 16.5m each.
- The left front doorway has through access to the rear doorway. Large steel doors secure the shelter at both ends.
- The front doorways have single element lintels. The rear doorway has a three-element lintel.
- The rear retaining wall is of brick construction, 10.9m long and 0.2m thick at the top. It has a slope of 10-12 degrees and is 0.72m tall at it’s highest point.
- The interior shelter is made of semi-circular corrugated iron sheets which are overpoured with concrete.
- The centre section originally had a front wall without a buttress, just a simple wall of one brick depth with various tie-bars added for strength.
- Each bay has a soakaway drain situated in the interior corner where the side wall meets the rear. A drainage channel of 0.25m width runs the length of the side wall and leads into the drain.
Blast Pen 03
Blast Pen 3 Shelter Interior Doors from July 2021. The black door is a modern addition, the original being is the rusty one on the right.
Neil Broughton
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