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Hull Culture Cache 6 - Central Dry Dock Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/20/2017
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Celebrating Kingston-upon-Hull's year as the UK City of Culture, the Hull Culture Cache series will take you on a whistle-stop tour of some of the locations that will host events and art installations throughout 2017. The venues are spread out across the city, suburbs and wider East Riding area. This is central to the Hull2017 ethos of engaging strongly with the local communities.


All caches in the series should be simple finds. The series is designed to show off our fabulous city and surrounding area

Some caches will contain a bonus letter on the log sheet. Make a note of the letters you find and the cache that they were found in. These will be needed for a future bonus cache

6. Central Dry Dock


History

The Hull Central Dry Dock was opened in 1843 and was the largest of Hull's dry docks at the time. It closed in 1992 and is now a grade 2 listed structure. From 1993 it played host to the Manxman floating nightclub, however, the dock was once again left empty in 1997 following a fire on the boat. Since then the dock has lay derelict and slowly silting up. A number of regeneration plans came and went. The most ambitious of these was a biodome style attraction named "The River", which would be a sister attraction to The Deep on the opposite bank

Finally, in 2013, the Wykeland development group announced plans to redevelop the Dry Dock area as part of the wider Fruit Market regeneration. This included new plans to transform the old dry dock in to a new outdoor amphitheatre, overlooked by bold new office developments

2017

The dock is the only new venue to be constructed for the start of Hull's year of culture in 2017. It has already played host to The Humber Street Sesh and Freedom Festival since opening in August 2016

The Cache

You are looking for a magnetic camo tube
You will need a pen and possibly tweezers
Please replace exactly as found

Additional Hints (No hints available.)

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