A step back in time #13 Traditional Cache
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***This series follows the route of 'Watling Street', a road built by the Romans which went from Dover on the southeast coast of England to Wroxeter in Shropshire via London and will pass historical points of interest en-route***
This cache is a black micro (35mm film container).
Near the cache you will see the Crook Log carvery, formerly the Crook Log Inn. Crook Log is both a locality on the line of Watling Street, Roman road (A207) within the London Borough of Bexley, and also the name of the roadside Inn at the centre of the locality. The Inn dates from at least 1808, and possibly from considerably earlier as a building of that name appears in a 1738 document.
The key landmarks here at the beginning of the Twenty-first Century are a licensed restaurant and a Sports Centre. The latter was recently expanded to include an indoor swimming pool; the Splashworld swimming pool building across the road from the Sports Centre was then demolished, the site being redeveloped by Countryside Properties with 52 apartments eccentrically branded as "The Old Baths". Other nearby public amenities include a well-equipped youth centre and a new adult education centre. For younger learners the Crook Log Primary School stands to the south of the straight A207, whereas to its north a small guest house also keeps the name Crook Log in the public eye.
In the past the Crook Log area had a number of large middle-class houses developed (some still standing). The Crook Log itself blossomed into a well known stopping place for carriers and other travellers. Charles Harper in his book 'The Dover Road' published in 1985, writes, "The Old Crook Log inn is the only public house here that has a history of more than 50 years, and this roadside public house is remarkable, not so much, perhaps, on account of its age - which is indeed, very considerable - as by reason of the curious bid for custom, the landlord makes of holding a free Natural History Exhibition of live birds and animals in his back garden, where monkeys, peacocks, owls, cats, canaries, bats, foxes, and others lead wretched lives, staved up in small cages, and create an effluvium whose strength must be smelt to be believed". Thankfully this is no longer the case and a nice meal can be had in the modern Inn!!
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