A walk around Charlestown
This is a great family cache. YOU WILL NEED TO PRINT THE PICTURES BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS CACHE.
The cache is NOT hidden at the coordinates above but this is a good starting point for your walk. Parking is allowed on parts of the main road or there is parking further down in the village. You DO NOT need to walk down any private drives to complete this cache.
This Geocache has a general theme of the previous and current uses of the properties in Charlestown, Cornwall.
Here are a set of pictures taken on a walk down the main street of the village. Each picture is labelled with a letter. Your task is to identify the pictures from the numbered descriptions below and to assign that number to the picture label letter.
(If you think description 2 matches picture B then B=2.)
The descriptions are strictly in the order of the locations as you walk down Charlestown Road and you will not need to stray from the road. If you make a find having missed one of the sequence then go back. "It's behind you!".
1. This location has had many uses, including a Customs House, a mill, a dance hall in the age of skiffle where “The Clay City Stompers” were regular performers, also a coal yard and a workshop and now converted to a residential development.
2. This was originally the police station, the home of PC Fulford, the village bobby.
3. The village school, where Amy Sarah ruled over 3 classes of kids. They could name all the inhabitants of the village when the population was just 365.
4. Once Barney Hodge’s butchers shop, now an art gallery.
5. Once the workshop of Jimmy Miller the cobbler, then a ladies hairdresser's.
6. The pub, where Ken Honey (my father) was landlord throughout the years of my childhood.
7. This building once combined the village stores, a cafe, B&B and Post Office.
8. Located within the yard where all the craftsmen were based that maintained the whole of this self-sufficient community, this was Don Littleton’s carpenter shop.
9. Lorries delivering china clay for export and off-loading coal and other products passed over these weigh-bridges.
10. The dry, with its characteristic chimney was used to dry the china clay, before it was trucked on rails down a tunnel and tipped into the holds of the ships in the dock basin.
11. This little building houses a ships wheel that is used to wind the steel cables that emerge above it. In this way the harbour master was able to control the water that flowed from two artificial lakes above the village to fill the dock.
12. Now an ice-cream parlour, this was once the barber’s shop where we lads could get our hair cut before 5 o’clock on a Monday. After that time Mr Rowse only dealt with the men who had just left work, and were charged more!
13. Penwarden’s store where grain and other farm supplies that had been brought in by ship were held and distributed.
14. This iconic building has always been the harbour office.
You should now have finished your walk. The cache is located at:
N (N×B)° (K+L) . (A+J-K)HG'
W (C-F) ° (M+M) (M+P) .(N-B)F(E-D)'