TOTEM Traditional Cache
Keen & Less Keen!: Unable to reset cache, which was 'Disabled' for quite a while; Reviewer requested action so taking this course of action with a view to potentially re-setting a new cache at some point in the future. Thanks to everyone who has visited it in the past - hope you enjoyed the 'Totem' at GZ!
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The cache itself is CLASSIFIED as a micro, under 'Geocaching.com' definitions, but is actually a little larger (just not of a shape in which swaps/TBs can be left!) and in keeping with the area in the immediate vicinity of the GZ. You are looking for a camo-ed screw-top vial abut 10cm long.
Cache is accessed from the public footpath alongside the main A134 through Sudbury. Parking is not advised at the GZ (busy main road) but there are a number of possibilities within easy walking distance.
Silk was, and remains, a major industry in Sudbury, whose products are still used by top fashion designers. One of the companies is situated around the corner on Alexandra Road. It was one of three listed in 1900 Kelly's Directory for Suffolk (p. 528); in 2007, a prominent, national, financial broadsheet noted that all three still flourished with two concentrating on selling woven silk cloth to upmarket clothing suppliers and the third specialising in furnishings such as curtains and chair coverings and selling mainly to interior designers. All three are privately owned and have notched up a combined total of 700 years in business.
The totem project, funded jointly by local sponsors was also designed by a Suffolk company and was carved by Suffolk-born sculptor from a 7 metre tall dead Monteray Cyprus tree to celebrate and commemorate the heritage of the town. At the top sits a silk worm, which has emerged from the cocoons and embryos immediately below. Then the silk hangs in loops above the bobbins used to produce the loose flowing silk dress worn by the girl at the bottom.
A recent request (summer 2013) to relocate the totem pole to Siam Gardens in Gaol Lane, so it could be closer to other information linked to the town’s silk weaving history, was turned down by Sudbury Town Council's Leisure and Environment Committee, who believed that such a move would be a mistake and generate unnecessary cost.
CONGRATULATIONS to afcboy on FTF - 2nd September 2013
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