Heart, Handkerchief and Spectacles Traditional Cache
Heart, Handkerchief and Spectacles
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This cache is part of a series of caches in and around the town of Paisley. They are all based around places of historical or scenic value.
This Micro-Cache based around a local Legend and one of the oldest churches in Paisley.
The Oakshaw Trinity Church came about as a result of a series of unions with other churches, the building of this church, originally known as the High Kirk, was undertaken when the adapted nave of Paisley Abbey could no longer cope with the expanding population of Paisley, which was a booming textile town. The church was built on a broad rectangular plan in 1756, without any internal supports for the roof, which had, it is said, the largest span in Scotland at the time. At the time it was built without a tower or spire. However the clock tower and spire were added in 1770, at the expense of the town council. The spire is of a curiously old-fashioned design, similar to the Merchants' Steeple in Glasgow of nearly a century earlier, but the spire was very up-to-date, with glazed oval openings in its cardinal faces.
It is this Spire that provides the story for this cache ...Local legend has it that when the spire was being built one of the steeplejacks fell to his death from the spire. In his memory his workmates laid the shapes of a Heart, Handkerchief and Spectacles in the cobbles below the Spire. They can still be seen there today. The cache is hidden beside cobbles.
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