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Chatham past Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 5/22/2005
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Terrain:
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Chatham past

Parking can be found at N 51.23.116 - E000.31.615. For a small fee.

Town Hall @ N 51.23.119 - E000.31.526



The Town Hall was the most expensive of the projects announced by Chatham's Town Council in the 19th century. The building work started in 1898, and was completed in January 1900. The new building provided offices for various council departments, as well as a council chamber. The building still in The Brook, at the bottom of Dock Road and Whiffens Avenue. With the coming of the new Medway Council it became redundant, and is now a theatre and art centre.

But what year is on the plate 1A99

Chatham Burial Ground (now Town hall gardens)
@ N 51.23.116 - E000.31.615



You are now standing at the original entrance of cemetery that was opened in 1828 in Whiffens Avenue in Chatham, as the churchyard at St Mary's Church in Dock Road was overcrowded. The land was acquired by the parish from the Board of Ordnance. Burials continued here until 1870, when the new cemetery opened in Maidstone Road. In 1905, the cemetery was opened as the Town Hall Gardens.
Here at the entrance is a memorial stone to the memory of Sergeant Patrick Feeney, who was shot in 1834 by Private Benjamin Gardner in Chatham Barracks.

How old was Patrick when he died. BC


When it was opened as a garden, most of the headstones were moved against the two walled edges of the burial ground (The north-east and south-east walls). Those against the north-east wall are generally in better condition than those against the south-east wall.

@ N51.23.056 - E000.31.699 you should find the headstone of William Warden a surgeon of Chatham dockyard

what date in April did he die. DE and what year 18H9

Chatham Ragged school
@ N 51.22.989 - E000.31.768



Here at the top of King Street you can find Chatham's Ragged school, The Ragged Schools idea was developed by John Pounds, a Portsmouth shoemaker who in 1818 provided a free school for the poorest children. Thomas Guthrie helped to progress Pounds' idea of free schooling for working-class children In 1844 the Ragged School Union was formed by Lord Shaftesbury 200 free schools where eventually established.

on the south wall you can find the year the school was built F8 5G.

Congratulations
you can now plug your answers into the final co-ordinates, which are given by:

N51 DB.(F-C)(A-G)(H+C) E000 EC.(G+F)(B+C+F)(G-E)

Please take a moment to reflect where you are and what it means to us as British freemen.
I've decided, after many muggled caches, to make this a micro, Ive collaborated with Binbags on the final for this one she has produced an excellent cache in an excellent hide, thank you Binbags with your help the cache should be safe.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

N ebyy bs pybgur va n fgbyra tbbqf erprviref uvql ubyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)