Bournemouth Bicentenary - 1908 Tram Accident Multi-Cache
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Bournemouth Bicentenary - 1908 Tram Accident
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This cache is one of a series of caches celebrating the Bournemouth
Bicentenary 2010 - 200 years since Bournemouth was placed on the
map. Feel free to add to the series ensuring that the cache is
hidden somewhere which has relevant local Bournemouth history.
The co-ordinates above are for the first clue - details of clues
and parking can be found below. The first section of tram way in
Bournemouth was open in 1902 and ran from Boscombe to the Metropole
Hotel at the Lansdowne. A further extention in December 1902 was
built that terminated at Westbourne and the Boscombe to
Christchurch extention was completed in 1905. In 1908 Bournemouth
trams suffered their worst accident when a tram, travelling down
Poole Hill failed to negotiate a bend and crashed over the
embankment and into the pleasure gardens off of Avenue Road. 7
people were killed and 26 others injured. Another accident occured
near Boscombe pier, when an unattended tram ran down a slope and
fell onto the beach, killing two women. By 1910 Bournemouth had 23
miles of tramways, 80 cars of which the largest could carry 62
passengers and the smallest 42. The 8th April 1936 saw the last
tram which ran from Christchurch to Bournemouth. The passengers
allighted at, Tucton, to catch the first trolley bus into
Bournemouth. On a happier note, on the bridge / pergola (clue 2),
one Sunday afternoon, (20 years ago) I proposed to me girl, and now
me girl's me wife (of 19 years this year!) Originally the cache was
going to be placed roughly where the tram would have come into the
gardens but too near another cache. If you look towards shops from
cenotaph you'll see where approximately it would have been, coming
down from Avenue Road. The cache is a micro - old film container
with small pencil and log book - STEALTH is required here!
Congratulations to phillip 3363 and katphil on joint FTF!
Additional Hints
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