Penny Ferry Traditional Cache

This is a short series of 5 caches based on my childhood memories. 

There is parking by the RNLI station nearby, please drive carefully there are lots of potholes.

a short walk brings you to the cache location.  

I know the area well from childhood days 

Should you come in the Spring / Summer you will be able to see the seabirds nesting on the jetty nearby

On approaching the actual docks, one passed on the Middleton side the Foyboatmen’s cabin, and next to it the lifeboat house, inside which was kept the Princess Royal. Next to the lifeboat slipway was the ferry landing, with “Bull” Boagey the ferryman rowing the ferryboat between the Middleton and Hartlepool landings, mostly carrying the workmen going and coming from the Headland to the works of William Grays,  “Richies” (Richardson Westgarth), or on the docks. The Hartlepool ferry landing had the lower of the two red lights on it which, when in line, led shipping into the harbour. Just beyond the Middleton landing