Where are the tracks? Traditional Cache
ABC Frogley: unable to replace cache at present
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A great Park with a lovely walk around the old boating lake.
Car park @ N53 32.659 W001 05.218
Sandall Park, affectionately known locally as the ‘Boating Lake’ was
not always a boating lake or public park. What is now a cafe, used to be two cottages inhabited by the Frost family.
Mr William Frost and his family moved into the cottages which were built
in 1841, after the closure of the brick works which dominated the site.
The cottages were without electricity and water had to be brought from
along the street from a communal pump. At that time, there were no houses between the cottages and Doncaster town, it was all woodland.
The lake is a direct result of clay extraction from the area, required
for the production of bricks and the excavation was filled with water to
provide what we see now. Initially, there were several ponds, two became
one to make the larger lake.
William Frost grew vegetables and produce on the land where the elderly
persons bungalows now are and took them on his horse and cart into Doncaster town for sale, in addition to selling them from a stall outside the cottages
on Thorne Road.
His horse and carts, together with his cattle, were kept in open fronted
sheds which were a legacy from the brickworks. Apparently Mr Frost was
a business man, and diversified into selling his wares in a cafe which
was opened in a back room of one of the cottages. His customers being mainly the fishermen who paid to come to fish the lakes.
In 1940, although war had broken out, the lake was opened as a park and
boats were introduced onto the lake. As residents in the ‘park’ the Frost
family, including a young Florence Frost (who, aged 93, kindly provided
these details) were invited to be the first guests to experience the new boats. Florence eventually married and moved into the adjacent cottage to live with her husband.
Florences’ parents remained in the cottage until their deaths (albeit
the Corporation had tried to persuade them to leave!) and they were finally
demolished in 1956 upon the death of her father Arthur.
Original Cache Contents:-
Pad & Pencil
Pencil Sharpener
Badge (Sml)
Folding ruler
LED Torch
Trolley Token Keyring
Jumbo Eraser
Stretchy Man
Whistle
Bottle Opener
Parachute Man
Geocaching wristband
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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