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The 5th Beatle Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/7/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Geocache Description:

Cache is located outside The Sefton Park Hotel (formerly the Bleinheim Hotel) and former home of Stuart Sutcliffe. A wonderful location at Sefton Park with easy walking terrain. For those driving there's parking opposite next to the stunning Sefton Park boating lake and numerous other Sefton Park caches to find close by!

 


File:Blenheim Lakeside Hotel, Sefton Park, Liverpool.jpg

The Sefton Park Hotel and view of the lake.

 

STUART SUTCLIFFE - The 5th Beatle.

The hotel has a great terraced area overlooking the lake to take in the view with the hotel bar possessing memeorabillia and information on Stuart and the Beatles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe (23 June 1940 – 10 April 1962) was a British artist and musician best known as the original bassist for the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as an artist, having previously attended the Liverpool College of Art. Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with inventing the name, "Beatals", as they both liked Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets. The band used this name for a while until Lennon decided to change the name to "the Beatles", from the word Beat. As a member of the group when it was a five-piece band, Sutcliffe is one of several people sometimes referred to as the "Fifth Beatle".

When the Beatles played in Hamburg, he met photographer Astrid Kirchherr, to whom he was later engaged. After leaving the Beatles, he enrolled in the Hamburg College of Art, studying under future pop artist, Eduardo Paolozzi, who later wrote a report stating that Sutcliffe was one of his best students. Sutcliffe earned other praise for his paintings, which mostly explored a style related to abstract expressionism.

 

Cache Container - A magnetic screw top 'bottle-lid' like cache. Easy terrain but slightly higher difficulty due to the number people watching from passing cars and those taking a drink on the hotel terrace. The cache has a side view of the hotel on the railing next to the terrace. Cache can be found from outside the hote grounds. To sign you'll have to bring your own pen/pencil. Good luck with the hunt!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nebhaq jnvfg urvtug ba znva envy cbfg pybfr gb n gerr naq ubgry fvta qverpgyl bhgfvqr gur ubgry'f greenpr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)