NC9 Lady Nelson's Fancy Mystery Cache
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Finding the microcache hidden in Swaffham should be easy, but
locating the 4 virtual caches needed to gain access to the main
cache may test your navigation skills. Bring your own compass and
it should take about 1 hour to walk between the virtual caches.
This is the ninth of eleven Nelson's County caches each of
which contains a visual clue to the location of Tapping The
Admiral, but you will need Lady Hamilton TBs help to
find him.
That which is
attached to my Log Book will help you to find my hiding place. Note
well where the thin cord leads for it will lead you to where I
rest. |
Lady Nelson's Fancy: a military two step
popular in the winter of 1798 after news of Nelson's victory over
the French fleet in Abu Qir Bay reached England in October. The
tune appears to be that published by William Mittell in 1799 as
Lady Nelson's Waltz (the military two step being a sort of cross
between a march and a waltz). However, the true waltz was not
introduced to Britain until after the Conference of Vienna in
1814.
Lady Francis (Fanny) Nelson spent each winter season in Bath with
her father-in-law Rev Edmond Nelson. Even after their estrangement
Fanny remained loyal to Nelson and nursed his father Rev Edmund
Nelson almost to the time of his death in 1802. |
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Swaffham is considered by the faculty as peculiarly salubrious, so
says White's Norfolk Directory of 1845. Fifty years early it was
the west Norfolk social centre for the gentry and well to do. The
town boasted the assembly Rooms, a theatre, daily coaches to
Newmarket and London. In the season there was horse racing, hare
coursing and in 1797 England played Norfolk at cricket for the
prize of 500 guineas. During his five years on the beach Nelson and
Fanny were frequent visitors, and when Nelson returned to the
service Fanny frequently took lodgings at Monpelier House to escape
the biting winds at Burnham. Fanny came from a distinguished creole
family in
Nevis, WI
and Montpelier House would appear to take its name from the
Montpelier Sugar Estate, Fanny's family home. There is a certain
irony that both Nelson and Napoleon both married West Indian creole
brides, a fact that raised no eyebrows in C18 Europe although Emma
Hamilton frequently referred to Fanny as having a
heart Black and fiend like
looking face. As well as being the home of Old
Pastonian, Stephen Fry (NC1 Full
Nelson), Swaffham is associated with several other heroic
character, Howard Carter the Egyptologist grew up here, First Sea
Lord Sir Arthur Knynett Wilson, VC was born here, and Lance
Corporal William Earl Johns was the Sanitary Inspector for the
Borough from 1912 and married the rectors daughter from Little
Dunham (NC6 Do A Nelson),
and trained as a bomber pilot with the RFC at No25 Flying Training
School, Thetford where he managed to crash 11 planes, a feet never
equaled by his alter ego Squadron Leader Biggles; although Johns
held a temporary 2nd Lieutenant's commission during his training,
his captaincy would appear to be a rank of the Harland Sanders
variety.
Once you have found the microcache you will see that you need a
four digit number to get in. That number is:
A = My doggy got none,
but which number do I live at?
B = The number of
steps up to my front door?
C = WMS built us in
18XX?
D = I can tell you
whence the wind blows and the time of day, but how many of my
Cardinal Points are named?
There are five locations to be visited, four of which will reveal
an answer to a single clue. Two of the locations require you to
enter private grounds. for which permission has been sought and
received: Straton's Hotel and EcoTech, which is open 9 to 5 each
weekday, on the last Sunday of the month and at other times for
advertised events - check
opening times here; interestingly Nelson petitioned
parliment warning of the unsustainable use of oak and requesting
that the trees be planted to replace the quarter million needed to
build the British Fleet, indeed in the French Revolutionary Wars
and WWI Britain depended for its defence on imported American
timber. Some of Nelson's Oaks were planted and as it takes an Oak
200 years to grow one of their first uses was in the bicentenial
conservation of HMS
Victory.
The five locations are; a pylon 30 feet shorter than
HMS Victory's main mast,
the site of Georgian Theatre, the Regency Villa which was home to
Susannah Bolton Horatio's sister, and later where Horatia Nelson
came to live, the heritage plaque outside Beach Cottage and the
Georgian Townhouse where Fanny Nelson stayed. Along the way you
will see the Assembly Rooms where Fanny and Horatio attended
dances, a street partly commemorating Charles Parsons invention of
1884 which stunned the Fleet Review of 1896 when the
SL Turbina achieved speeds
3 times faster than HMS
Victory could achieve running before a near gale, and a Lane
whose ursine appellation reminds us of Horatio's adolescent
northern encounter.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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