St Giles. What giants of literature
used the Eagle and Child in St. Giles as their watering
hole?
40 years old in 2002, you too can
have a go at the Bamber Gascoigne – Jeremy Paxman show,
albeit with a difference. For visitors to Oxford I suggest you park
in one of the five park and ride car parks the surround the city,
and take the bus in to the centre. From here you can start our
little quiz. But be warned, the cache is a 35mm cannister and due
to the very urban nature of their locations, are much in the public
spotlight. The trick is to winkle them out of their hidey holes
without attracting attention. It contains the most basic of
waterproof paper log, but no pencil, bring your own. Happy
hunting!
Stand on the St Giles Memorial and
look north. To the west, The Randolph, over Beamont Street and
Cockerall’s magnificent Ashmolean Museum (one of the worlds
greats and worth a visit ). Then stretching up to the north,
clockwise, Blackfriars, St Cross, Pusey House, Regents Park, St
Bennetts Hall, to Somerville at the top, St Giles Church siting on
its island between the Woodstock and Banbury Roads, the
Mathematical Institute, then St Johns and finally Balliol on your
right.