The Alva lark in the park
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This is a multi-cache aimed at children of all ages. It is located in a favourite haunt of Huw and Niall, where they have particularly loved watching the Ochil Hills change colour through the seasons. The multi-cache should be buggy and wheel chair friendly.
There are 2 parks that will have to be searched for the clues to this the cache, the Johnstone park and the Cochrane Park. The parks are home to the Alva Games, which have taken place in the parks for over 150 years and numerous shows throughout the year.
The co-ordinates of the listed cache are at the carpark at the Alva Mill Trail Centre, which is recommended as you can have a cup of tea at the Centre once you are finished!
The cache is hidden at the following Location:
N 56 EB.CHG W003 JI.JAF
Where A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I and J are found using the clues listed below. You may need long arms of a parent as we put it in fairly deeply to avoid the gazes of muggles.
Waypoint 1 is for Cochrane Hall. On the front of the Hall, there is a plaque which records its construction in year 19CB.
Waypooint 2 is a number on the wall of a house bordering the park which you can get from the path without going to their front door! It is AEF.
Waypoint 3 is the Town's War Memorial. For G, How many columns of names are there across the northern side of the monument?
Waypoint 4 is the plaque commemorating the Queen’s Jubilee, what year did the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visit? 199H
Waypoint 5 is the water fountain, when was Caroline Johnstone born? 1IJ9
If you are interested in a bit of history about Alva, read on (courtesy of www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk):
“Alva lies at the foot of the Ochil Hills where the Alva Burn emerges from Alva Glen. In an age when rapidly flowing water was a valuable resource, it was inevitable that ways would be found of harnessing the power of the burn. In Alva's case it happened early, and a settlement with a church was already established here by 1260 when control of the local estates was granted to Cambuskenneth Abbey near Stirling.
After the Reformation, the local estate came into the ownership of the Erskine family. At the time the grandest residence in the area was a tower house built much earlier just to the east of the town. In 1636 Sir Charles Erskine incorporated this into the much larger Alva House. The 1700s saw Alva expand considerably. In the early years of the century silver was found in Alva Glen and a mine was opened by Sir John Erskine to exploit it, using miners from Leadhills. The silver ore that emerged was the purest ever found anywhere in Great Britain and made Erskine's fortune before the vein of ore ran out. At its height, in the years around 1710, silver to the value of £4,000 per week was emerging from the mine. That was a vast amount of money at the time. Some of the money was invested in developing the Devon colliery, to the south of Alva, which started production in the mid 1700s. Erskine also built a short canal to link his colliery to the River Devon. The colliery later produced ironstone as well as coal, and a local ironworks had been established by the end of the 1700s.
The first of Alva's "modern" woollen mills was established in 1798 on the banks of the Alva Burn, and other mills rapidly followed. The largest of Alva's mills, the Strude Mill, began work in 1825. The textile industry in Alva diminished dramatically in the second half of the 1900s. The magnificent Strude Mill was always the most impressive of the towns mills, and it remained in use as part of a larger complex until 1976. It was converted into flats in 1987 and still dominates many views of the town. The uphill area of Alva shows clearly the social divisions in the town in the 1800s. Rows of single storey millworkers' cottages line many of the north-south streets, while the east-west Ochil Street is home to the grand houses originally built for the millowners.
By the early 1800s Alva House had been purchased by the Johnstone family. They greatly expanded it in about 1820. The house passed to Miss Carrie Johnstone in 1890, but on her death in 1929 it could not be sold. It was destroyed by being used for military target practice during World War II. In recent years a modern and slightly more modest Alva House has been constructed in an imposing position to the east of the town.”
Enjoy the cache! Huw&Niall
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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