Born: 21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992
Known for: Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill was an English actor, comedian, singer and writer. He is best remembered for his television programme The Benny Hill Show, an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendre in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with Hill at the focus of almost every segment.
Bournemouth Connection: Benny Hill was a wartime evacuee to Winton and completed his education at Bournemouth School. He was just about to enter the Fifth form at Taunton's School in Southampton when war broke out. Along with around six hundred fellow pupils he arrived at Southampton Central railway station on the morning of Saturday September 2nd, 1939, to board a train full of evacuees to Bournemouth. He was billeted with a family in Winton and the following day probably sat with them by the radio in sobre silence to hear Prime Minister Neville Chamberain declare war on Germany.
Series Information: This is one of 10 geocaches in the Bournemouth People (2022) series. Nine caches are stand-alone traditional caches. Each cache found will provide one of three bonus clues, which will reveal the coordinates for the tenth mystery cache. With only three clues to collect, you do not need to find all the caches in this series in order to have the information for the final, so if you are unable to find one, you should still be able to get the coordinates required. For the purpose of this series, please note that the bonus clues are numbered ‘Bonus Clue 7’, ‘Bonus Clue 8’, and ‘Bonus Clue 9’, to avoid confusion with caches found in other Bournemouth People series.