A Trip down Memory Lane Traditional Cache
The Antipodes: We did a quick search around the area, but couldn't find the container. We may place another cache in the area soon...
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Urban cache with easy access (apart from some stairs). Look out, you're being watched!
From the NSW Legislative Assembly Hansard, 12 May 2004, article 33:
The residents of Chatswood are very proud of this Garden of Remembrance and the Picardy roses, and they are watching the progress of the new garden with interest. This garden with the Picardy roses, is a very special icon to the men and women of the Willoughby City who paid the supreme sacrifice in wars, and we trust it will remain that way for future generations to pause and reflect on the many lives lost to war.
In 1936 Alderman Frank Channon suggested that Willoughby Council situated at Chatswood, resume a deceased Estate's piece of land on the Chatswood Railway Station and use it for a civic Memorial War Garden. The site ran east along the railway line and was bounded by Albert Avenue and Orchard Road.
In 1937, the Council resolved to resume the land and all the buildings were demolished, including the fruit trees. As the site was cleared, the area was to be turned into lawns and gardens.
In 1949, the lawns were laid, and at the suggestion of Mr Frank Channon, Secretary of the Chatswood Returned Services League, a grass mound was made at one end of the Garden for the Cross of Remembrance … He also suggested that beds of memorial roses with suitable inscribed metal name plates at the base of each rose, be the main feature of the garden.
The cache is a black film canister, filled with a cache roll and a pencil.
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Fuvar n yvtug ba zr!