GC4NTAW Bournemouth History: Winter Gardens (Traditional Cache) in Southern England, United Kingdom created by Lost2011

This cache has been archived.

Lost2011: With one shy of 400 finds, it is time to archive this cache. The links to all the other listings have been amended accordingly. The series is likely to be archived towards the end of the year. Many thanks to all those who have found this cache. It was fascinating at one time there were 3 containers to find! Great art work added to the block of wood recently too. :)

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A cache by Lost2011 Message this owner

Hidden : 1/27/2014

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is my town. I live here. I love it.

This series of 10 stand alone caches, with a bonus at the end, will take you on a journey through Bournemouth, visiting a mix of urban and residential areas, and hopefully learning a little bit of history along the way. For the most part I have tried to make the caches accessible to all.

Following the support and kind comments I received from the "Bournemouth's Past" series, I posted on a social media site for thoughts and suggestions for another series about the town I love. I already had a few ideas left over after the first series, and I was certain my geocaching friends could help me with enough material to make another series, which they did in abundance! I couldn’t choose them all, and some locations weren’t suitable, but I hope you like the choices I have made. Many thanks my friends!

You can find the original "Bournemouth’s Past" series at the following link, which will take you to the most popular cache of the series, Jon Egging, and you will be able to find the other caches in the series from there.

In this "Bournemouth History" series, each cache has a number needed to locate the bonus cache, so you may wish to make notes as you go along.

Due to the urban nature of this series and the high probability of muggles, I have tried to make all the caches easy to find by providing detail in the hints, so please use the spoiler.

Bournemouth Winter Gardens was a theatre in Bournemouth, England. The original building was a glass clad structure, similar to the Crystal Palace in London. The building was home to the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra between 1895 and 1929.

This structure was later replaced by a conventional brick building, originally designed as a bowling alley. After the second world war the building was adapted for use as a concert hall. Along with other entertainments, it was the principal performing venue of the Municipal Orchestra until 1954. The renamed Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra remained in residence until 1978, when the orchestra moved its concerts to The Lighthouse (Poole).

The Winter Gardens closed in 2002 and the building was demolished in 2006. The site is presently used as a car park, pending redevelopment.

Source

FTF: None at present.

Bournemouth History series:
GC41YWV: Pier Bandstand (M)
GC4NTAN: Tucktonia (N)
GC4NTAP: The Shell House (P)
GC4NTAQ: Moordown Halifax Memorial (Q)
GC4NTAR: Racecourse (R)
GC4NTAT: Moordown Tram Depot (T)
GC4NTAV: Waterfront (V)
GC4NTAW: Winter Gardens (W)
GC4NTAZ: A338 Wessex Way [BONUS] - N50 MN.PQR W001. TV.W94