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Hidden : 6/13/2011
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The Poole Hospital grounds are notable for the existence of Grey Towers House built on a prominent ridge and visible from many viewpoints in South Middlesbrough. This Grade II* Listed Building is an impressive isolated former country house built in the mid-late 19th Century, in a distinctive Victorian gothic style. Once the home of the important Ironmaster Sir A J Dorman, the setting is enhanced by the former gardens and parkland which contain many mature trees.

In 1875 a guy with the wonderful name of William Randolf Innes Hopkins had the gothic style mansion of Grey Towers built in 77 acres of parkland at Nunthorpe near Middlesbrough. And of course in this park land there was a lake. In 1895 the mansion passed on to Sir Arthur Dorman co-founder of the famous Dorman - Long steel company who built the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sir Arthur was not only a great industrialist he was also a keen horticulturist; building great terraced rock gardens in his new home, planted with rhododendrons, and azaleas.

He had the woodland extended, and it boasted an example of every kind of tree it was possible to grow in this country at the time. He even gave the lake a covered boathouse. Sir Arthur lived at Grey Towers until is death in 1931, when it was passed onto Alderman T Gibson Poole, who in turn presented the mansion and grounds as a gift to the Middlesbrough Corporation in 1932 as a hospital and sanatorium for the people of the town suffering from tuberculosis. So grateful were the Corporation that the new hospital was named Poole Hospital, the name it kept until its closure in the early 1990's. As you can imagine the gardens soon became over run, and the lake forgotten about.

Well, not quite forgotten, because in the 1970's Middlesbrough, and Stokesley Angling Clubs jointly took over Poole Hospital Lake, and what a lake it was. A typical estate lake, shallow and rich, with dense lily pads, thick weed beds, and an over grown island. Surrounded by it's woods and dilapidated gardens, yet still in the early season the rhododendrons bloom, now left to run riot they sent swathes of shocking pink through the trees.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

yhexvat va gur funqbjf ng gur onfr bs n gerr

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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