The cache is hidden in a busy muggle area just around the corner from the Marble Arch, please try to look as inconspicous as possible. Local residents have a good view of the location. A pencil is included in the cache. The cache is a small silver coloured plastic container with a magnet attached.
Please be careful when replacing the cache as it will only stick back in the section you retrieved it from - Only a small section is magnetic.
Location is easy to access on foot as it is just a short work from the city centre, parking is available on the neighbouring roads and the cache is also close to Victoria Train Station.
This is my first hide, Hope you enjoy the cache!
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I have placed this geocache in the area of Angel Meadow as it is an area that has an interesting historical past:- Three hundred years ago, Angel Meadow was a heavenly landscape with views over fields and hills. Indeed, the name conjures an image of some pastoral idyll. By the mid-19th century however, thanks to Manchester's new industrial age, it had become one of the city's worst slums. Angus Reach, a London-based journalist, visited Angel Meadow in 1849. "The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy and most wicked locality in Manchester is called, singularly enough, 'Angel-meadow.' It is full of cellars and inhabited by prostitutes, their bullies, thieves, cadgers, vagrants, tramps and, in the very worst sties of filth and darkness, by those unhappy wretches the 'low Irish'." Bounded by Rochdale Road, Miller Street, Cheetham Hill Road, and Gould Street, Angel Meadow covered 33 acres on the edge of the city centre. Its population of 20,000 to 30,000 was made up predominantly of destitute Irish who had fled the Great Famine to find work in industrial Manchester and now lived in squalid conditions in cellars beneath lodging houses. This area of Manchester was also written about by Friedrich Engels in his book about the conditions of the working class. The most infamous part of Angel Meadow was the former burial ground of St Michael's Church, which contained the mass graves of 40,000 paupers. This church has also been painted by L.S Lowry. This area now is a redeveloped area with residential apartments, from converted warehouses like the Tobacco Factory to new builds. There Is also Angel Meadow Park and St Michael's flags, which is a peaceful park on the fringes of a very busy city. Here at Angel Meadow Park you can read about some of the historic events, Angel Meadow park is 2 minute walk away, down Ludgate Hill.