Spike Island (S Lancs) Traditional Cache
John Stead: Checked out and clearance has been carried out with the tree which hosted the cache felled.
Reincarnated as Spike Island revisited, 115 metres WSW.
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RELOCATED 18 Feb 05 after muggling
Clear tube 100 x 40 mm with red top
Spike Island really is an island, between the end of the Sankey Canal and the River Mersey. The Sankey Canal was the first modern canal opened in 1757 but only later extended to Widnes (see my cache at Sankey Waters GC1688).
The whole site was at the heart of the chemical industry and relics abound. The square piece of water near the lock was the "Wet Dock" where goods from lighters from Liverpool were transhipped to trains on the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway and which took trade from the canal. Remains of some of the boats which traded here can be seen at low tide along the river bank to the east (mind the mud).
Parking is easy at the car park by the visitor centre (N 53 21.203 W 2 43.956) or at the Catalyst Museum which is well signposted and is also worth a visit to see how the chemical industry developed and declined.
This is another cache on the Trans Pennine Trail.
Please take care not to damage the hiding place.
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