The Crucible Traditional Cache
Twinkle*Twinkle*: Have checked it, yes, it's gone again, due to the local vandals, yes, time to leave this one alone!
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Lydgetts Junction is the meeting point of many popular walking and cycle routes. These include Waskerley Way, Lanchester Valley Walk, the Derwent Valley and the popular Consett to Sunderland.
The junction is marked by `The Crucible`, one of the few remains of the Consett Steelworks. This wagon was used to transport molten metal as part of the steel making process.
The Crucible stands as a fitting reminder of the former Consett Steelworks, which once dominated the surrounding area and played a significant part in the industrial history of Consett.
Built in Consett circa 1950, the Hot Metal Carriage was used to transfer molten iron from the blast furnaces to an open-hearth steel plant. It had a capacity of 50 tons of molten iron. The carriage weighs 40 tons. The crucible weighs 50 tons.
In 1841 Consett was a village community of only 145, but it was about to become a boom town. Below the ground was coking coal and blackband iron ore. Nearby was limestone. These were the three ingredients needed for blast furnaces to produce iron and steel.
The Consett Iron Company was established in 1840 by a small group of entrepreneurs who introduced the first blast furnaces. Over the next 100 years, the town became one of the world's leading steel-making towns, and for decades the name Consett was synonymous with iron and steel. Steel dominated Consett visually and the town was renowned for images of its cooling towers and steel mills, as well as the red dust that hung over the town.
The Consett steel works provided jobs for 6,000 workers at its peak in the 1960s. But there was intense competition in the 1970s from both local competitors on Teesside and from abroad. Moves to close Consett came in the 1970s, despite local opposition. For several years, there were rumours and heated discussions over the future of the plant.
In 1980 the death knell sounded for the steel furnaces, and the Consett works closed with the loss of 3,700 jobs.
This Cache is a replacement for the previous one which the locals pinched! Please replace this cache carefully as you found it. This is a very busy spot so stealth will be required. It has moved slightly from it's original location but the co-ordinates remain the same allowing for normal expected errors.
Contains (when re-set)
A Twinkle*Twinkle* mobile phone charm
Log book
Pencil
Twinkle* Necklace
Rubber
Butterfly Charm
Mini Candle
Note: I have increased the rating of this one slightly as some cachers have had a bit of trouble finding it easily and the site is really busy. It is also much smaller thatn the first one
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Abar, (ohg or pnershy abg gb ohzc lbhe urnq! Abg gur orapu raq!)
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