Beachie ❤ 1980s is a series of caches themed around the 1980s, located around Peterborough City Centre. The caches are intended to provide a variety of hides and types, so there'll be something for everyone.
Each cache is related to a different 1980s thing pertinent to a different year of the decade. We've tried to tie the themes in to the location where we can. In addition, there are some bonus caches. These aren't bonus caches in the geocaching sense of information to find one cache contained within other caches. They're just extra caches we added as we ended up with more ideas than years in the decade.
All the caches in the series are "stand-alone" in that they don't require you to complete any others. You can do them all in one sitting or just dip in and do one or two at a time as your time permits. You also don't need to do them in chronological or any other particular order - do them in whatever order works for you.
Click on elements of the magazine above to see the caches in the series. Alternatively, go to this bookmark list...
1987... this happened... World Stock Markets crash, US Dow Jones index falling 22.6% in one day.... Jack Your Body, by Steve “Silk” Hurley, is the first House music number one.... Princess Anne appears on Question of Sport.... Michael Jackson’s album, Bad, is released, selling over 30 million copies.... Great storm of 1987 occurs, famously not predicted by Michael Fish, the worst storm in 284 years in the UK.... Inspector Morse begins, featuring John Thaw.... Rick Astley sings that he’s Never Gonna Give You Up.... Going Live, presented by Philip Schofield and Sarah Greene, begins....
...and Wall Street is released, starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, (not necessarily positive) role model for Yuppies everywhere.
Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual who is a "member of a socio-economic group comprising young professional people working in cities.". Yuppies were generally thought of possibly just out of college, and had a high-paying job and an affluent lifestyle. As the term caught on, it became applied to any rich person who is not modest about their financial status.
The typical uniform of the Yuppie was a trench coat, braces, pinstripe shirts and sharp suits for men, designer suits with shoulder pads for women. And of course, the mobile phone, quite the exclusive status symbol at the time, despite the fact that they were the size of a brick? (or maybe because of - you certainly looked conspicuous with one...)
The term “Yuppie” was supposedly coined by advertisers as a marketing thing. There were many amusing variations on the theme, including Double Income No Kids, or “Dinkies”, Single Woman Earning Lots Of Loot, or “Swells”, and Well Off Older People, or “Woopies”
We've brought you to this location because Yuppies, as a rule, tended to work in "The City", in the financial district of London. If Central Peterborough has a financial district, I suppose this is it? GZ is a good place to stop and have lunch, if it wasn't for the fact that lunch is for wimps (so says Delboy Trotter, anyhow)
Wheelchair and pushchair users should be able to access the cache OK. You're looking for a magnetic nano.
Parking is available nearby of the paid variety. Wherever you choose to park, please do so considerately, legally and safely.
Please make an educated decision about the level of muggle activity when you arrive at GZ, and if you find it's just too muggly, we'd suggest you return another time - we'd rather you protected the cache. Thank you.