Allestree Hall Traditional Cache
JustAlan: Been out to check the cache today, and as a result of a major tidy up of wind blown trees in the area, the cache has dissapeared; so I'm archiving it to free off the location. Thanks to oldtree for the tip off, and to everybody who visited it.
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A cache in Allestree Park on the northern outskirts of Derby
Access to the park is from Allestree village via the A6 Duffield Road, north of the city centre. The main drive leads to a large car park. There is also an entrance at Woodlands Road where there is a car park and picnic tables.
Allestree Park dates from the end of the 18th Century (roughly between 1795 and 1805) when Bache Thornhill of Stanton-in-Peak bought and enclosed Allestree Park and had a house built, but before it was complete, he died. The builder of Allestree Hall was James Wyatt. After remaining empty for some time it was eventually occupied by John Giradot, a man of great wealth. Subsequently it passed through several hands, including those of Sir William Evans, whose generosity to the village included the gift of a vicarage when Allestree became a parish in its own right in 1864, and paying for Henry Isaac Stevens almost complete rebuilding of the church.
By the 1930s, after a succession of owners, a developer who had hoped to build 2,000 houses and a golf course, bought the Park and Hall. The golf course, and some houses on the edge of the Park, were in place when the Second World War started. The Army then requisitioned the Park and Hall.
First the Army and then the Fire Brigade used Allestree Hall during the war, the latter only leaving in 1950. The Council then stepped in and bought the 323 acres of the park, including the hall. A nine-hole course golf was established in 1948, and extended to 18 holes in 1955. The house contains a golf shop and a bar.
Allestree Hall is a grade II listed building but has laid abandoned since the 1980s. Many proposals have been put forward and refused.
Recently, an album featuring previously unseen black and white photographs of Adolf Hitler, taken in the summer of 1944 were found at Allestree Hall in Derby. It is thought the camera they were on, was lost in the German evacuation and picked up by a British soldier at the Evere Airfield in Brussels. The photos were auctioned off in Derby in April 2008.
The cache is in trees at the side of the public golf course, so watch out for flying golf balls!
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