K6: Sherborne - Cheap Street Traditional Cache
tsiolkovsky: In line with the request from BT and following GAGB guidelines - since this container has gone missing I will not be replacing it so this cache is now archived.
K6: Sherborne - Cheap Street
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A Simple cache located Sherborne's old market area - which is what Cheap Street means - market. The cache itself is small but is large enough to hold most geocoins and small travel bugs. There is a pound awaiting the first lucky finder.
The K6, or kiosk number six, was designed in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of king George V. It was the first telephone kiosk to go national, for up until then most kiosks were based in the London metropolitan area; and the K6 eventually came to be the dominant kiosk. So it is hardly surprising that it has become something of an iconic image when thinking of British street furniture.
Like most icons, it wasn't at first that well liked. Most communities hated the bright red colour of the K6, saying that it stuck out far too much; which lead to the General Post Office eventually allowing an alternative colour scheme of grey to be used instead. Ironicially, many of these grey K6s were eventually painted red as their community.
These days with almost universal mobile phone ownership, the requirement for public telephones has declined sharply and the K6 is now a highly endangered species. BT certainly doesn't want to have to look after them, and many are being uprooted are scrapped, or being sold to local communities who wish to retain them within their environment.
The K6, we salute you.
The cache itself is small but is large enough to hold most geocoins and small travel bugs. There is a pound awaiting the first lucky finder.
***Congrats to gtxzag pm being the first to find ***
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
va naq nobir - zntargvp
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