This cache is one of a series of 26 caches, one for each letter. Placed across the county by a tean of 'Nottingham Geocachers'. The caches vary in type, size and difficulty. Each one has a differnent inital letter and will have a link to the county of Nottinghamshire.
Y isn't an easy letter to fill so some license given here. The cache has been placed near to the village of Ruddington and called Yesteryear in deferance to The Framework Knitters Museum... well worth a visit if in the area.
Ruddington's association with the knitting industry had begun by the start of the 19th century after the invention of the knitting frame in Nottinghamshire. The industry attracted new inhabitants and the population grew to 2,500 during this time as an associated extension to lace manufacture. New houses and frameshops, including the site occupied by the present-day Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum were built to provide homes and workspace for the knitters and families. The 1851 census showed that half of the heads of households in the village were involved in the occupation. Framework knitting in the village declined towards the end of the 19th century as steam-powered machines developed and factories provided large-scale competition to the manual methods still being employed by the villagers.