Oohh Matron! (St. Mary's) Multi-Cache

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Long Man: This cache appears to have been missing for some time. Would the owner please check this cache and see if it still in place or give an indication of when it may be sorted out. Otherwise it should be archived. If there is no response to this log after 30 days I will archive the cache. In the meantime I am disabling it.

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Andy
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Hidden : 7/8/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A trip into history to remember St. Mary's Hospital

This building had stood in the town for many years before becoming a hospital. It had served as a barracks and also the local workhouse. The first documented evidence of a building on the site where the hospital stood is 1794. This was a Calvary barracks for 54 men. The workhouse then came about in 1834 following an act of Parliament. Due to the Great War inmates from the workhouse were moved, and the building became the Central Military Hospital with the first patients occupying beds in January 1916. It could accommodate 300 patients at this time. It returned to being a workhouse or institution in the March of 1920. Part of this was the sick wards (the infirmary), and this was the beginning of the building becoming a ‘proper hospital’. Nurses would begin preliminary training here before completing their training at the Lambeth Hospital. The buildings grew, but the work remained the same until a change in law in 1929. St. Mary’s Hospital came to be in 1930 and continued to be until the last patient was transferred to the new part of the Eastbourne District General Hospital in October 1989. Other departments slowly moved to the new hospital, before it closed for good in 1990. Bibliography: Elliston R A,1999, Eastbourne’s Great War 1914 – 1918, S.B. Publications Surtees J.,1991, Barracks, Workhouse and Hospital (St. Mary’s, Eastbourne) 1794 – 1990, The Eastbourne Local History Society ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To enjoy looking back in history, it may help to have a street map with you. I suggest you start the trail on the corner of Vicarage Road. Here is one edge of the hospital site. A few steps up Vicarage Road, you will see Vicarage Lane. The flint wall is the boundary of the hospital. This entrance would have taken you through the back gates (or mortuary gates) and you would also have seen the infirmary block in front of you (picture 1). Continue onto the next waypoint, meanwhile you are passing the flint wall which is a remainder of the boundary to the hospital. Here you will find the steps. I read somwhere (but cannot locate where) that they were steps to the hospital building. Look up to the doors at the top. Take the right hand door number - this is AB, the left hand one is AC. Onwards and upwards to the next waypoint. This is located close to where the main entrance to the hospital was (picture 2). Above head height is a blue plaque commemorating the hospital. Here you will find some dates. DKGH - EJF0. Cache is at N50 HA.(D+D)EE E000 DC.EJK Good Luck finding the cache. Please watch out for muggles, and rehide the cache carefully from both sides ;). I have stated that this is a child friendly cache, as it is. Please do be careful as you will be close/next to a busy road. Enjoy. footnote ~ watch this space. Other hospital caches are in the planning stages

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh znl jvfu gb cnex va gur ynlol arne gur lbhgu ubfgry.

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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