The Grand Union Canal links Birmingham to London with a waterway
which is 145 miles long and contains 166 locks. This cache is one
of a series to be found along or close to the Buckinghamshire
stretch of the canal.
The cache is situated in the vicinity of the Great Linford Brick
Kilns. These kilns were used in the late 1800s to produce bricks
from local clay for local house construction. Bricks have been made
in the Milton Keynes area for at least five hundred years.
The brick kilns in Great Linford were originally built in the
late 1800s and were used until 1911. They fell into disrepair and
were left derelict until two of the three were restored in 1981.
Each kiln produced about 20,000 bricks per firing. These were
loaded onto horse-drawn narrow boats at the adjacent canal wharf
and transported to Wolverton, New Bradwell, Cosgrove and
Castlethorpe to be used for building.
There were many bricksworks sited near the canal including
Bailey’s Brickyard in Great Woolstone and Thomas Roger’s and Alfred
Foster’s Brickyards in Little Woolstone.
This is to replace the archived orginal was a shame to lose
it
THIS HAS NOW BE RE SITED YOU ARE WELCOME TO RE LOG WHEN
VISITED..
Thanks to CACTUS BOB for the original idea
YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BLACK FILM 35MM CANNISTER.
When the cache was placed the tree cover was playing havoc with
the GPS lock so if the first few finders could give check and
update me with the co-ordinates.
All I ask is that you replace the cache carefully, exactly as
you found it please, which means - exactly how I left it!,
GOOD LUCK !
FTF - TIKAL