The cache is located in pleasant retreat of Bodington Gardens, Maney. It has an open air memorial commemorating an Oxford graduate, Boddington, who was born in 1799. He became a GP in Erdington, and a local politician serving Sutton Coldfield for forty years.
His interest was in pulmonary disease and in 1836 he acquired the Asylum and Sanitorium at Driffold House, Maney. Being a leader in this field he was the first to suggest dry frosty air as a cure for tuberculosis, but he was not taken seriously by his peers and he then resorted to the treatment of insanity.
In 1851 the local census recorded eleven ‘ lunatics’ and six staff including the doctor and his family at Driffold House which is now an art gallery. He died aged 83 in 1882..
The 1981 essay by Jane Davage ’The life and Times of George Bodington’ to be found in Sutton Reference Library provides an interesting account of this fascinating personality.