Bernard’s Stroll 16 – Nan’s House Traditional Geocache
Hanoosh: As the owner has not responded to my previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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Brenda
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Bernard’s Stroll 16 – Nan’s House
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This is the sixteenth in a nineteen cache series dedicated to our great friend and near neighbour Bernard Glovell-Raff who has lived in the area for well over 60 years and walks part of this route nearly every day. He has seen the area change over the decades and always has a story to tell when we accompany him. The route is a rough figure of eight and should take 2 hours or so to complete.
Bernard Says:
“My mother was born in a house (built coincidentally by her grandfather and grand-uncles) on what was then Loates Lane (now Queen’s Road) a stone’s throw away from where you are standing, in the latter part of the 19th Century. In those days, the railway beside you was the line out to Rickmansworth, which wasn’t that busy, so Loates Lane used to go straight across it with signals to stop the train until all was clear. When the lines were electrified and the Bakerloo Line extended through here to Watford Junction this was far too dangerous and a lot busier, so the road was blocked off. This side was renamed Queen’s Place and the other side (which you will have passed on your way here) became Ottoman Terrace with a few houses on Queen’s Road demolished to allow the road to be realigned through a tunnel.”
“My mother left Watford in the Edwardian era to work as a nurse overseas and eventually found her way to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). My father was born in Dresden to a German father and a mother who was the daughter of an English aristocrat, educated in England and was a civil engineer in what is now Tanzania. They met when she tended to his broken arm after he fell down a rocky slope at Victoria Falls whilst on holiday. A few years later, I came along and in the mid-1930s, my maternal Grandfather died, so we all moved to England and moved in with Nan. The journey by rail and ship seemed to take forever but at 16 it was quite an adventure. It felt less like moving to another country and more like moving to another planet. Our family name was Muffboht, which we anglicised to Mabbutt on arrival and my original name of Klaus became Clive. How I became Bernard is another story.”
You are looking for a heavily disguised 35mm container. Please replace exactly as found for the next cacher to enjoy. Thank you.
To get to the next cache in the series:
Walk up Queen’s Place end and turn right and head north along Queen’s Road (The Broadway).
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Qvq Ebtre Jngref cynag guvf pnpur?