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...
Swap Shop, or Multi-coloured Swap Shop, to give it its full title, was an iconic children’s programme presented by Noel Edmonds, with John Craven, Keith Chegwin and Maggie Philbin, which began in 1976.
It was an entertainment programme, with music, games and guests, setting the mould for similar programmes for decades, but the real centrepiece of the show was Swap-O-Rama, where kids would ring in and swap their things for other things, and Cheggers would tour the country with outside broadcasts with kids swapping things for other things in person.
Of course, we cachers know a thing or two about swapping – we’ve been swapping swag in caches ever since. Remember – trade up or trade even!
In 2006, Kyle McDonald from Canada did exactly that. He started with a red paperclip, and through swapping it for something else over the internet, and swapping that in turn for something else again, and so on, constantly repeating the process each time swapping for something of greater value, he eventually ended up, after a year of bartering with strangers, with a house!
(OK, I’ll admit this is a slightly crowbarred-in choice for a 1980s series, but Mr BH has had this idea floating round in his head for a long while, and as Swap Shop was still on TV in the 1980s, for a good 2 and a bit years, it’s going in, and that’s my final word – Mr BH!)
The cache is not located at the published co-ordinates - there's a puzzle to solve. What that puzzle actually is, is for you to work out...
As mentioned above - this isn't a bonus cache in the geocaching sense of requiring information from other caches. All of the information needed to work out the actual co-ordinates is on this page.
You are looking for a nano.
Parking is available close by of the paid variety. You may of course park elsewhere, however please park considerately, safely and legally wherever you choose to park.
For best results, approach GZ from the north.
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.
