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Historical Plaques - John Guy Free School Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/16/2014
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Ballymena Borough Council have erected to date 45 plaques to promote recognition of people. notable buildings and events that have proved of lasting significance within the Borough. The key objective is to build greater public awareness of local heritage from all historical periods and to provide somewhere to hide a cache:)

 

John Guy's Free School

 

This School on the corner of Wellington St / High Street was a free school built with money left by a man called John Guy .He had worked all his life as a herdsman on the local Adair Estate and wanted to use his money for something useful.

Apparently he could neither read or write he was supposed to have heard of a new hospital opening in London called Guy's and decided to build a free school on this site.

The School was demolished many years ago and was located near the enterance to the Tower Centre. I remember our car being parked here on open ground and doing our shopping in Gilmore's Grocers across the street.

To find the cache, solve the puzzle :-

A = Neighbours - 5

B = Allo Allo + 4

C = Motorbikes - 6

D = Gunpowder / 2

E = Monkey Island - 7

F = Coldplay + 1

N54 52.ABC W6 15.DEF

Checksum = 25

Cache is a preform conrainer

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur : Sebz prager bs ebhaqnobhg ybbx gb Fyrzvfu. pnpur vf ng n srapr cbfg va sebag bs lbh

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)