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...
1986... this happened... Top Gun is the highest grossing movie of the year... Mike Tyson becomes World Heavyweight Champion... Crocodile Dundee is released... The Smiths play their last ever gig before dissolving... The Mir Space Station is launched... Casualty broadcast for first time... Jean-Michel Jarre performs a concert in Houston in front of 1.5 million people... Argentina win World Cup, with Diego Maradona’s “Hand of God” goal along the way...
...and Bon Jovi release their breakthrough album, Slippery When Wet!
Power Ballads had something of a heyday in the 1980s. Slow-tempo, emotional songs, building to an emotive chorus, backed by drums and guitars, and often choirs and stringed instruments. (There was a lot of dry ice used in the videos, too! What with all the dry ice and hairspray, it's no wonder we were worried sbout the ozone layer)
With the parallel emergence of Hair Metal, there were plenty of bands releasing classic Power Ballads – Cutting Crew, Foreigner, Roxette, Scorpions, Richard Marx, Heart, Bonnie Tyler, Whitesnake and Marillion to name a very small few.
In the (slightly cluttered and disordered) filing cabinet of Mr BH’s brain, Power Ballads of the era are filed next to Mullets – the classic, much-derided hairstyle where the hair was grown long at the back and short on top – as so many artists were rocking that style at the time.
We've brought you to this location as it's also somewhere you might see mullets...
Whilst stealth is, as ever, required, this cache has been placed so as to aid discreet retrieval and replacement.
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.