The cache itself is a bit delicate so please be gentle when opening it. It is located at N 51° 31.ABC W 000° 10.DEF
I appreciate that this cache is extremely difficult to find. Feel free to contact me for additional hints in case you are struggling :-)
Last not least. If you manage to do this multi-cache on a Friday, don’t forget to watch the hydraulic rolling bridge at Paddington Basin which is operated every Friday at 12 noon.
WP1: You are looking for a sculpture near Edgware Road tube station. This station was part of the world's first underground railway when it was opened as part of the
Metropolitan Railway between
Paddington and
Farringdon on 1 October 1863. It was the site of one of the
7 July 2005 London bombings.
Mohammad Sidique Khan detonated a bomb at about 8:50am, on board a westbound Circle line train as it was leaving the station, killing six passengers. The Window Cleaner is a sculpture by Allan Sly. It was created in the year GHIJ. G+H+I+J-17=A
WP2: St Mary's Hospital was founded in 1845. It first opened its doors to patients in 1851, the last of the great voluntary hospitals to be founded. With the shift towards community healthcare delivered in the early 20th century, partly due to the social medicine revolution, pressure on bed occupancy relaxed, and with the formation of the
National Health Service in the 1940s, many of the local hospitals of the St Mary's teaching hospital group eventually closed and relocated services to the Paddington basin site. Since you are already there, why not take a photo outside the Lindo Wing where Prince George of Cambridge was born in 2013. The Child Development Centre of St Mary’s hospital is located at The Bays. According to the hospital map, on which level is it located? ?=E
WP3: London Paddington station, often shortened to simply Paddington
The Hilton Paddington is directly outside the train station and used to operate under a different name before. What was its former name (4 words). (number of all letters)-18=F
WP4: Clove is a sculpture by Bryan Kneale and John Chrisfield. Bryan Kneale
RA (born 19 June 1930) is a
Manx artist and
sculptor, described by
BBC News Online as "one of the
Isle of Man's best known artists.” The sculpture was created in the year PQRS. P+Q+R+S-8=B
WP5: You have reached Sheldon Square. It is part of the Paddington Waterside Partnership which is regenerating the so called Paddington Special Policy Area around
Paddington Station. The project covers an area almost the size of
Soho, creating of about 10,000,000 square feet (930,000 m
2) of space between 1998 and 2018.
It consists of 13 individual projects in the triangle of land between
Praed Street, Westbourne Terrace and the A40
Westway, most notably PaddingtonCentral and
Paddington Basin. The
Independent has described it as "the largest central London redevelopment scheme since the Second World War".
The sculpture as this location has been made by Mr Buck in 2003. His first name consists of how many letters? (number of letters)-2=C
WP6: You are outside the north entrance of Paddington Station. What a difference to the south side. The Grand Union Canal is part of the
British canal system. Its main line starts in London and ends in
Birmingham, stretching for 137 miles (220 km) with 166
locks.
The info point shows you a map of the area. The sign has a unique location number. The location number is KLMNO (K+L+M+N+O)-11=D
The cache is located at: N 51° 31.ABC W 000° 10.DEF THE CACHE CAN EASILY BE ACCESSED FROM THE PAVEMENT (ABOUT 2FT ABOVE GROUND LEVEL). NO NEED TO ENTER CHURCH OR SCHOOL GROUNDS OR TO CLIMB TREES. JUST GRAB OVER THE LITTLE WALL.
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