As you walk from the carpark you will notice the remains of the
harbour wall and the filled in area of Morrison's Haven. There is
an information board above the harbour area.
This was a very different place a century ago. It was a dirty,
noisy, busy and crowded industrial area with great brick chimneys,
beehive-shaped brick-making kilns, high walls and grey factory
buildings and the air was filled with choking, grey smoke.
Before the harbour was built, oyster fishermen's boats could be
drawn onto the shore. By the middle of the seventeen hundreds, the
Haven had become a busy trading port from which both salt and
oysters were exported. Ships took away local glassware, ceramics,
chemicals, including vast amounts of Oil of Vitriol (or sulphuric
acid), bricks, fireclay and coal. In return, they brought in
foreign goods such as French brandy, raisins and Port wine from
Portugal; silk, whalebone and Delft chinaware from Holland; Russian
leather from Danzig in the Baltic and furs from Hudson's Bay in
Canada. Up to the late 1920s, ships were calling in at Morrison's
Haven to pick up loads of up to six hundred tons of coal or bricks,
but after lying disused for many years, the Haven was filled in and
the site was landscaped.
The cache is a short walk beyond Morrison's Haven near to the
coastline. Take a glove with you!