Luna's Lott Traditional Cache
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Replaced container as Lid was missing from old one. My daughters
have asked if they could have their own cache for people to find,
so this is 1 of 3 placed in the park today.
The cache is in front of Heaton Hall, it is a round click and lock
container covered in cam tape it has a logbook, pencil and small
treasure great for kids. The house that had stood on the site of
the present Heaton Hall since the late 17th century would have been
very old fashioned when its 21 year old owner Sir Thomas Egerton
(later 1st Earl of Wilton) married Eleanor Assheton of Middleton in
1769. Three years later Sir Thomas commissioned a fashionable
architect named James Wyatt to design a new home for his young
family. Earlier in 1772 Wyatt had attracted the attention of the
aristocracy with his design for the Pantheon in Oxford Street, a
rendezvous for assemblies, balls and masquerades described by
Gibbon as ‘the wonder of the eighteenth century and of the
British Empire'. Sir Thomas' account books of the time show that
Wyatt's neo-classical masterpiece was built in phases. The central
block, and the west wing containing the kitchen and below stairs
activities were completed by 1778. Work on the east wing with the
Library and Music Room went on until 1789, the year that Samuel
Green's organ was installed and the inaugural concert held. The
entrance into the house is on the north side, but the main façade
is on the south side. This is of a traditional Palladian design. It
has a central block with a semi-circular bow topped by a dome,
flanked by colonnaded wings ending in octagonal pavilions
containing the kitchen and library. The main entertaining rooms are
unusually ranged in line along the ground floor behind this façade.
They are finely proportioned and exquisitely finished by the finest
artists and craftsmen of the period. Another interesting aspect of
this elevation is the subtle way it reflects a greater degree of
harmony with its landscape setting than almost any other building
of its date. There are 13 rooms in the central core and east wing .
Manchester City Galleries restored the decorative detail in the
1980's and early 1990's. The ground floor range of rooms on the
north east front has been converted to an expansive space that
houses temporary exhibitions. The current one is Park Life –
the story of the Heaton Park focusing particularly on the 20th
century. The Library is licensed for civil partnership and wedding
ceremonies and the park now offers a full service whereby a wedding
in the Library can be followed by a reception in the Orangery and
an overnight stay in Smithy Lodge. This pepperpot building is one
of the park's two Lodges designed by the Lewis Wyatt for the 1st
Earl of Wilton.
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(Decrypt)
Ybbx ng Yhan'f cubgb gung jurer lbh arrq gb or naq purpx ol lbhe srrg, fznyy fdhnerf.
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