Happy memories from a Blue Bridge Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 2/24/2009
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This being my very first cache that I have placed, why not put it in the location that I spent a lot of my time as a boy. Born and bred in Newton Aycliffe, I had an awfull lot of fun around here, as well as getting in to my fair share of trouble! Boys will be boys. Very fond memories.

The History of Newton Aycliffe.

During the Second World War, Britain fought for her life against the Nazis. Our armies needed millions of shells and bullets. But how could we make them, with Nazi bombers raining down bombs every night on the cities in the south of England?
What was needed was a secret arms factory. It had to be built out-of-the-way in the north of England, far away from Nazi bombers.

The Luftwaffe promised to bomb Aycliffe into submission, but it never happened....
The reason for that has a lot to do with the location.
The earth under the town, and Industrial estate is mainly clay-based - this leads to a lot of fog and mist when it cools down at night.
The site for the munitions factories was specifically chosen because of that propensity to mist-up at night - making the place particularly difficult to find from the air after dark.
Because of all the buildings, it doesn't get foggy within the town as much as it used to, but you might have noticed that it does still get foggy around the edges of the town quite regularly.
The town of Newton Aycliffe owes it's very existence to the tendency of the area for getting foggy.

But it also had to be near a railway line, so that workers could go there to work every day, and so that the government could transport the shells and bullets to the soldiers.

And that was how - on a bleak moorland between two tiny villages in County Durham - the government came to build the Royal Ordnance Factory. Much of the factory was built underground (for safety), and an underground railway connected the factories. Some of the original buildings still survive today

Work in the factories was dangerous and nasty - the explosives could blow up, and gave the workers cancer. Many of the people who worked there were women, and the 'Aycliffe Angels', as they came to be called, were among the heroes of the Second World War.
This was the railway that served the Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF 59).

After the war was over, the site of the Royal Ordnance Factory was chosen by William Beveridge, the founder of the welfare state.

Beveridge chose one place especially which he wanted to be the shining example of how his new world would work. He needed a place with a lot of factory space for people to work, and a lot of open land to build houses. Where would he choose?

The moors between Aycliffe and Middridge were perfect - there was a huge ordnance factory that was no longer needed for the war, and there was plenty of poor farmland to build on.

So that is where Beveridge chose as his flagship new town - Newton Aycliffe. This man - the shaper of modern Britain - even came to live here, and had a house at the top of Pease Way.

The Blue Bridge was built and opened in 1956 as the entrance to the new town. Newton Aycliffe was born.

You will need to solve the following clues to locate the exact location of the cache.

N 54.(CB.EAE)
W 001.(CD.ACA)

AB' C" = The clearance height of the bridge

D = How many lions are on the left hand coat of arms plaque

E = (D + C)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Va gur zvqqyr bs guerr ryrcunagf abfrf.

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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