GC38VQM Wheely good view (Multi-cache) in North East England, United Kingdom created by mickyc71

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GC38VQM ▼

A cache by mickyc71 Message this owner

Hidden : 12/6/2011

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is a snap lock lid medium sized well stocked cache which is an offset with a rewarding walk to the final location.

At the above co-ords you are looking for an plaque, the second year on the plaque is ABCD.

The plaque is at a pit wheel which carried men down Eppleton Colliery on the former Durham coalfield which is a memorial for a disaster where seven men were killed in an explosion and two were left badly burned and were carried out on stretchers and later died.

The explosion in the Durham coalfield came only weeks after 81 miners and two rescue workers lost their lives at nearby Easington Colliery.

Eppleton, which was among the oldest pits in the country with its first shaft sunk in 1828, was regularly beating its production target of 12,000 tons a week.

The tragedy happened as about 500 men worked on the Busty Seam, 1,300ft below the surface.

There were 13 men working in the section of the seam where the explosion happened and only four were able to make their own way out.

Eppleton Colliery’s ambulance team had one of the finest records in the Durham coalfield and had been placed second in the National Coal Board first aid championships at the time of the disaster.

The cache can be found at N 54 49.5(C+3)B W 1 26.ABD

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Haqre N fgbarf

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)