The Gate To No where Traditional Cache

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RomDob: Local youths with bikes have systematically destroyed this cache and any replacements that I have put up. I had hoped that they would tire of their game and leave it alone, but no luck.
Sorry to see it go because it was the first cache that I found when I took up geocaching as a reason for taking gentle exercise after a major heart attack ten years ago. I now have a pacemaker to keep me going. I believe that my wife's grandmother used to use this route to walk to Staines in the early part of the last century.
Farewell and good luck to all geocachers; may your batteries never dim and your GPS always lead you to your goals.
RomDob

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Hidden : 10/22/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This was the view through the gate at one time

Cache set up by DrDick&Vick and now maintained by RomDob

35mm fim tub, contains only a log book. No matter what Memory Map says it is NOT on the railway line, trust me. The Gate to No where used to be the pedestrian access for the prison staff who worked at the old Ashford Remand centre and lived over the otherside of the railway. On the prison site now is Bronzefield Womans Prison but previousy there was the old buildings that were once the West London District School, it was a residential school with faciliries for a mixed population of 800, which was opened in 1872, the school finally closed, as such, in 1955. The grounds and buildings were aquired by the Prison Dept and after extensive conversion work was opened,in 1961, as a Remand Centre for under 21yr old males. The Remand Centre was closed in 1988 but reopened for a while and the buildings were finally demolished in 1990. During it's time the Remand Centre housed under 21 males on remand, convicted under 21 males, foriegn detainees awaiting deportation and finally adult convicted prisoners.It had it's own hospital and church and there was also a heated swimming pool that due to repair costs became a storage area. During the demolition the original bell tower was saved and taken to the prison at Feltham where it remains, to the best of my knowledge, to these days. There were many rumours of the building being haunted by children from the old school days and possible a monk, so I would be interested to hear if there have been any 'sightings' in the new prison. Plenty of parking either side of the railway.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Bccbfvgr naq ybj yvxr n zntargvp yvzcrg zvar. Ybbx sbe gur Trbetr Pebff!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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