Stourport Basins "The Tontine" Traditional Cache
Stourport Basins "The Tontine"
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A slim container approximately 50mm long 15mm dia. Logbook only. It can get very busy with muggles here but the cache should be easily retrieved.
As early as 1772 the Directors of the Staffs and Worcs Canal Company took a decision to have their headquarters and Commercial Hotel at Stourport. It was to be built overlooking the River Severn. It opened in 1788 and remains to this day the most impressive Georgian building in the town. The original name was The Stourport Inn, Tontine Buildings, the name given to the whole of the buildings. It was later called the Areley Inn and then, The Tontine Hotel.
The name Tontine came from an Italian- Lorenzo Tonti, who devised an early form of life insurance. A group of people would take out a policy where only the last surviving member would get the payout!
The building is grade II listed and has been empty since 2001 when the pub closed down and the brewery wanted to knock it down for re-development. The Tontine was brought by british waterways and has now been developed into flats.
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