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STF: dettol in colaboration with manxrose
TTF: AlphaDragon55
Number 2 of a series of caches hidden near places where once a pub stood, which has been lost over the years. In this case the Lion or later Brown Lion, which was only a few yard down the road but had been demolished years ago when the railway dam was build.
Bring some tweezers to retrieve this nano and it's log.
May we invite you for a little walk around the area? You will find that Oakengates had more pubs than you would be able to drink pints in a day. Please drink responsible, make it at least a week!
If you walk down to the road, you will see to your right the remains of the Claddagh, who knows what this pub is going to be turned in?
Take a left and go for a walk down the road, on your left just before the railway bridge was the Lion, later called the Brown Lion.
Walking under the bridge you will find the Coalport Tavern, oposite this used to be a pub called the Charlton Arms which is long gone.
If you turn around and walk back under the bridge into Oakengates Town, you had immediatelly after the bridge the Waggon on your left, nothing remains of this building, there is now only a high fence with a builders yard behind.
Across the roundabout, first building on the left used to be the Green with the Oak only 4 doors up. A few yards up on your right, the Black Horse, currently camouflaged. Rumour has it it might turn into a Chinese restaurant soon.
2 doors up from the Black Horse was the Tavern. Can you still follow? I couldn't if I had a pint for each of these pubs, and there is still much more to come.
Changing the side of the road again, in the old days looking rather out for horses and carts than cars (which were probably not invented then), you will come to where the Bulls Head used to be. We believe there is now a place called Extra Care.
Keep walking up the road, on your right, now a solicitors office, used to be the Oxford Hotel and a little further up where now a bank resides, you would have found the Royal Exchange. On the oposite side of the road, the flower shop was called Slaney's Vaults.
Now it's easier, 3 pubs still where they used to be, namely the Duke of York, the Station Hotel (which never was a hotel but was given this name as there was already a Station Inn much further up the road) and the Crown. In the last years they got rejoined by the Fighting Cocks, derelict for years and now reopened with the word Old added to it's name.
Keep going, one more to come, the Victorias Vaults, where now an Osteopath resides.
There were many more further up the road, but this shall be covered by another cache in the near future.