Grainger Market Multi-Cache
Jesmond Lynam: Checked this morning and the original "host" is no longer there. Time for this one to go.
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A city-centre multi cache leading you to a rhino cache container, so please BYOP. Though the final cache is available 24x7, the information needed to find it is available from 09:00-17:00, Mon-Sat only.
The Grainger Market is Newcastle's largest traditional covered market. Opened in 1835, in the Grainger Town area of the city in a purpose-built elegant and classically styled Grade I listed building. At the time of its opening it was described by the Evening Chronicle as being "the most magnificent in the world"
The market was a key part in the redevelopment of Newcastle by the developer Richard Grainger and his architect John Dobson. Richard Grainger was said to "have found Newcastle of bricks and timber and left it in stone, stone that still stands today."
The Grainger Market was originally split into two sections with the main market being the butchers' market and the timber roofed arcade housing the vegetable market. Unfortunately the arcade lost its original roof in a fire and this was replaced by the current latticed-steel glazed roof (reminiscent of a railway station) and reopened in 1901.
The market was originally built with 10 entrances. There are now 14, and the published coords will take you to one of them. You will need to work out the cache location from the plan in the entrance next to you:
N A° B.E W 00F° G.J
A=(Puccini Opera middle number /3)
B=(Middle number of Zero Being / 3)
C=(4 x Paris Cookers)
D=They went up the hill for their clothing?
E=C+D
F=(Syrup of Figs here? / 7)
G=(Cromwell and the Garden / 3)
H=(11 x Global Despatch)
I=(Razor Midpoint / 2)
J=H+I
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gjb obkrf ntnvafg gur jnyy, ybbx ng gur fznyyre bs gur gjb.
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