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Hidden : 1/31/2012
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Marlborough Street dates back to the late 1700's. It was a part of the life of Devonport when it was a dockyard town.

Devonport continues to see many changes in its landscape, its residents and its use.

The beginnings of Marlborough Street are shown on Donn's map of 1765 but it is not named as such. In 1788/89 a gateway was constructed through The Lines and a roadway built down to New Passage. This is probably when Marlborough Street first came into existence. [source: (.]visit link)

Read below some history on a shop in Marlborough Street:
F.W. Gerry. Grocer- 23 Marlborough Street
"There are some people that you just have to say 'cheers' to, and Albert and Steve, proprietors of F.W. Gerry in Marlborough Street, are those people. F.W. Gerry have been trading in Marlborough Street for 45 years**. Fred Gerry, their dad, had his first fruit and veg stall in Devonport in 1956 - at the top of Marlborough Street, where the open car-park is sited. It wasn't long before he opened his first shop in the street, just 50 yards down the road from his stall.

I liked Fred. My mum liked Fred. Everybody liked Fred. When I was little and sent to his shop by my mum, for her 'half a stone of potatoes please'.......he used to give me free apples. He'd lean over to his box on the floor, and without straightening up he would throw one underarm at me. Which I loved. And his sons Albert and Steve were never very far away. I can hear my mum now, in our kitchen, saying "old Fred idolises those boys".

By 1959 Fred had moved across the road in Marlborough Street to a bigger shop. His range of produce became wider too - the shop remains there to this day. 'Those boys' of course took over when their dad passed away. Here is a picture of Steve snapped at the front of the fruit shop in August 2001." (source: (visit link)

As part of a University project exploring the possibilities of technology as an aid to social connections, we posed the recording of Devonport scenes over time – plotting the development and using geocaching as a platform to encourage exploration around the urban space.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pybfr gb gur jnyy, uvqqra orgjrra gur onpx bs n oynpx hgvyvgl pnovarg naq gur jnyy.

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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