Welcome to another of my Geo caches. I hope that you find this as entertaining as some of the others I have hidden.
I have lived in Ilkeston since 2012 and made it a point to find out about some of the local history and thus I have decided to place a cache on part of the history of Ilkeston.
The information you will require might involve a bit of research on the internet and will, unless you are clever mean you need to show up at the Virtual stage to gather some information, so that you can obtain the information to gain the required numbers so you can find the cache.
So, the first stage coordinates will take you to a plague in Ilkeston where you can get the information you require. So to help you I've included a bit of history about where you are going and what it was many years ago.
The Ritz Cinema was built for the independent exhibitors; Ritz (Ilkeston) Ltd. and was designed in a modern Art Deco style by the Nottingham based architect Reginald W.G. Cooper (his seventh cinema design project). It opened on 20th May 1938 with Barbara Stanwick in "Stella Dallas" and British film star Victor McLaglen was guest of honor (invited by his nephew J.V. McLaglen who was the first manager of the Ritz Cinema).
The cinema had a very distinctive style that was very similar to the Odeon theatres which were being built at that time. There was a slender fin-tower feature and the main facade was covered with a light biscuit coloured Doulton ‘carraware’ tiles. Seating in the auditorium was provided for 922 in the stalls and 480 in the circle. Unfortunately in later years the rather narrow proscenium did not adapt well for screening CinemaScope films and the top masking had to be lowered to give the wide screen effect.
The Ritz Cinema was operated by the S. Graham Circuit of Nottingham for most of its life and was closed on 8th June 1968 with a re-issue presentation of Vincent Price in "House of Wax". It was converted into an independently operated bingo club which closed on 19th July 2018.
The Ritz Cinema is a Grade II Listed building.
So now for the Coordinates to get to the cache.
Samuel Goldwyn produced the first film which was shown at the Ritz as it says above, but he produced another version of the same film
Which was released on AB November 192C. The USA RELEASE DATE IS NEEDED HERE.
The final film shown starred Vincent Price who died D5 October 19EF
The checksum for A to F equals 26
I was able to gain all the required information by a quick search on the internet in a few minutes
FINAL COORDINATES
N52 (B-A) E. (C-D-F)(C+A)(D+F)
W001 1(B+D).(A-A)(E-F-A)(C-A-D-D)
At the GZ you will be able to find parking, but it can be a busy road at times and you will need to leave the road to find the cache, but its only a short walk if you park in the right place. The cache itself is camouflaged and large enough for swops, but you will have to find the log first to sign it.
Please remember if you do not sign the log you might lose your smiley and please remember to use stealth as it can be busy at times. I also appreciate any feedback about my caches either in the log or in a personal message and truly hope that you enjoy finding this cache.
Trivia Fact
Samuel Goldwyn Junior (Samuel Goldwyn's son) produced an updated version of the same film in 1990 which starred Bette Midler
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