Cameron Memorial Fountain Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/3/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The Cameron Memorial Fountain sadly now neglected by the city council

Please note this is a 'Traditional' cache and therefore anyone claiming this cache MUST sign the logbook. Any further claims without signing the logbook will be deleted.

INITIALS ONLY PLEASE IN LOG





A postcard view of Sauchiehall Street at Charing Cross in 1903. An electric tram is passing the Cameron Memorial Fountain. On the left is the Grand Hotel, while the red sandstone building in the background is Charing Cross Mansions.

The Grand Hotel was regarded as one of the Glasgow's leading hotels for many years, and was a favourite venue for weddings. It was demolished in the 1960s, along with the building opposite, to make way for the M8 motorway.

Sculptor George Tinworth created the Cameron Memorial Fountain in 1896 in honour of Sir Charles Cameron, the newspaper owner-editor and Liberal politician. The original clock shown here was replaced in 1908. Like Charing Cross Mansions, the fountain has survived (although listing to one side) into the 21st century.

Charles Cameron was born in Dublin in 1841. He was educated at Madras College, St. Andrews, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was First Senior Moderator and Gold Medallist in 1862. In the same year he graduated M.B. and C.M., being First Place-man in both instances, and he continued his medical education at the great schools of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.

In 1864, however, he settled to newspaper work, in the editorial chair of the North British Daily Mail. This he continued till 1874, when he was elected M.P. for Glasgow. He represented the city from 1874 to 1885, the College Division from 1885 to 1895, and Bridgeton Division from 1897 to 1900. In the House of Commons he was an active member. Among many other labours, he carried through the resolution which led to the adoption of sixpenny telegrams; he brought in and secured the passing of the Inebriates Acts, as well as the Acts abolishing imprisonment for debt in Scotland, and those conferring the municipal franchise on women. He also secured various reforms in the Scottish Liquor Laws. He was Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transit of Cattle Coastwise in 1893, and of the Departmental Committee on Habitual Offenders (Scotland), 1894, and he was a member of the Royal Commission on the Liquor Licensing Laws in 1895. At the same time he has been the author of a number of notable pamphlets on medical, social, and political subjects. In 1893 his long journalistic and parliamentary services were recognised with the honour of a baronetcy. He died in 1925.


The fountain as it stands today

INITIALS ONLY PLEASE IN LOG

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

oruvaq gur ynqvrf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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