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Monument details

HER Number:TR 24 SW 15
Type of record:Monument
Name:Decontamination Block, Reinden Wood,

Summary

Decontamination block which formed part of the dispersed site for Hawkinge Airfield

Grid Reference:TR 2150 4120
Map Sheet:TR24SW
Parish:HAWKINGE, SHEPWAY, KENT

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1 blast shelter situated by the side of the main contamination building, the other in woodland 50m away. (1)

The decontamination building was locked so only inspected externally. The building is made of concrete and rectangular in shape (35mx11m) mainly single storey with a flat roof with a smaller rectangular addition on the eastern end and two tall chimneys at its western end. Contaminated personnel would have entered at the eastern end, stripped and passed their clothes through a slot aperture into bins. They would have then passed through an airlock to showers after which they would have moved into another room to recieve clean clothes and leave by the exit in the west.(2-3).


<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Site report form: Defence of Britain project. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage, KD205 (Unpublished document). SKE6956.

<3> Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage, KD205 (Unpublished document). SKE6956.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Site report form: Defence of Britain project..
<2>Unpublished document: Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders. 2001. Kent's Defence Heritage. KD205.
<3>Unpublished document: Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders. 2001. Kent's Defence Heritage. KD205.

Related records

TR 24 SW 26Part of: Reinden Wood (Hawkinge Airfield Dispersed Site) (Monument)