FREDDIE IN FELTHAM
Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara to British Indian parents on the island of Zanzibar. He was known as ‘Fred’ rather than Farrokh even before the family came to London, and signed himself as Fred Bulsara on letters until 1970, when he changed his name to Mercury.
After attending a British public school in India he returned to Zanzibar but was forced to flee to London with his family in 1964 when the island’s violent revolution broke out. The Bulsara family moved into 22 Gladstone Avenue in November of that year, and Mercury lived there on-and-off until about 1970. He crashed at various London flats between 1966 and 1969 while he studied for a Diploma in Graphic Art and Design at Ealing College and took various jobs to support himself, including washing dishes in the kitchens of Heathrow Airport, just a stone’s throw from Gladstone Avenue. [Source: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk]
A monument was originally erected on Feltham High Street in commemoration of Freddie's time in Feltham and has since been replaced with a stone slab and star. This is the area we have hidden our first cache.