Bridgewood : Description : Holding Pen

Holding Pen

The Holding Pen is in a clearing off Bridgewood's Middle Ride. It provides a secure holding space for captives, and is just over 3m by 3m in size. The steel mesh panels are topped and threaded with barbed wire, and there is a lockable gate. Deer fencing mesh covers the bottom two foot of the panels and extends across the ground to prevent digging. The floor is then covered with sand.

The Holding Pen was inspired by some features of POW camps; and by "This is Camp X-Ray", an art installation in Manchester in 2003 that highlighted the holding of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay without trial and was itself constructed using steel mesh fencing panels.