With a difficulty of 3 this cache will challenge you, but those who
have gone before you have completed it in a couple of hours. Read
through the description and make sure you know what any unfamiliar
term means. We have liberally seasoned the description with subtle
hints given you a spoiler for Stage1 and encrypted clues for every
Stage (which give pointers rather than spoiling the hunt), you can
even check your answers to Stage1 close to Stage2. With a minimum
of prepreparation, proper examination of the virtual caches and
appropriate reference to all the hints you do not need a check sum
as none of your answers will be ambiguous.
That which is
attached to my Log Book will help you to find my hiding place. Note
well where the thin cord leads for it will lead you to where I
rest. |
Half Nelson: (1) a wrestling hold in which one arm is
passed under the opponent's arm and the hand placed on back of the
opponent's neck forcing their head forward and the arm backward. So
named because it involves only one of the opponents arms unlike the
full nelson. The term half nelson first appears in
print in Edgar Rice Burrough's "Tarzan of the Apes" published in
1912. (2) a ballroom dance move in which one partner's arm is held
behind their back. (3) a French techno group. |
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Horatio Nelson and his brother William were pupils at Norwich
School (an Edward VI Grammar School) for a few months in the latter
part of 1767. After their mother's death Horatio and William moved
to Paston School in North Walsham (NC1 Full Nelson) in
December 1767. As with much of Nelson's early life legends have
been spun to make up for the paucity of facts; and at Norwich
School he was supposedly expelled for keeping livestock in his room
(this possibly refers back a decade to an incident under a previous
headmaster when "the boys allowed the school to be over run with
rabbits"). Two other famous Norvicensians did leave under a cloud;
in 1818 George Borrow the writer and linguist ran away after a
flogging and in 1819 James Brooke, the White Rajah of Borneo,
simply left rather than be expelled.
This multicache starts at Norwich Cathedral where there is
another cache (Postcard Cache). There is no public parking
in the cathedral close but there are several multistorey car parks
around the city centre of which the St Andrews car park is probably
the easiest to find a space in at the weekend. Car parks are all
well sign posted off the inner ring road with information on
available spaces. Alternatively there is a pay and display car park
by the law courts to the northeast of the cathedral close.
1 - Looking north you can see the Carnary Chapel which served as
the school rooms in Nelson's day and to the left School House where
Nelson would have boarded with the headmaster Rev Edward Simonds.
Beside you is a statue of Nelson erected by the citizens of Norwich
in 1852, although it took them a further 2 years to pay the
sculptor Thomas Milne. Look very closely at the honours Nelson
wears on his left breast and the medals around his neck:
A = the number of medals, B = the number of star shaped
honours, C = the number of cruciform honours, D = B+C, F =
A+D+B
2 - 52º 37.8CF North, 001º 17.7DD East - You are now standing in
St Andrew's Plain. To your south is the Suckling House where the
forebears of Nelson's mother (Catherine Suckling) had their town
house. Through Catherine, Horatio was related to two of the other
great Norfolk families, the Walpoles and the Townsends (of turnip
fame). The church to the southwest is St Andrews in whose parish
you are now standing. In the 300 metres you have just walked you
have passed through five other ancient parishes; a record you will
not equal until you reach the Burnhams (NC11 The Nelson). To
the north is St Andrews Hall, where Nelson's statue was originally
placed, and to the northeast Blackfriars Hall where you can see Sir
William Beechey's famous portrait of Nelson (note how he is missing
his Knight Grand Commander of the Order of St Joachim in the
portrait).
You need to find a Carrack with the hull of a Caravel on the
building to your east; the Norwich Discovery board in St Andrew
Plain may be of help in navigating your way (although it did go for
repair in summer 2008):
G = the total number of sails on the foremast and
mainmast, H = the total number of sails on the mizzen and
bonaventure masts
3 - 52º 37.FG8 North, 001º 17.GG4 East - This is the city's
traditional poultry market, although had Nelson wanted to buy any
geese in 1767 he would have found them on the north side of this
building. On your way here you will have passed the Guildhall which
formerly held all Norwich's Nelson memorabilia, today it houses an
outlet for the city's sole remaining chocolate company (prior to
1996 an evening visit to the Peace Pole (GCGZ1T) would have
been accompanied by the glorious olfactory experience of chocolate
wafting from the adjacent Rowntree Macintosh works). For an 8 year
old Nelson hot chocolate would have been a luxury beyond his means,
however 30 years later he would experience a more gracious style of
living while attached to the Royal court in Naples:
I = the number of arboreal specimens more suited to a
Neapolitan climate, J = G + H, K = D - I
4 - 52º 37.JKH North, 001º 17.JBC East - Having stealthily
recovered the cache make sure you hide it as least as well as you
found it. Inside the building behind you another Nelson portrait
(painted while he waited to sail to Copenhagen NC5 The Nelson
Touch) is "keeped" by a cabinet commemorating the battles of St
Vincent and of the Nile, this cabinet also contains the sword of
Admiral Don José de Cordoba surrendered to Nelson at St Vincent.
Nelsons hat and other items are on display at the far end of the
Crome Gallery. The final Nelson connection can be found in the
Natural History gallery where, had Nelson seen the ursus maritimus,
he might have been less ready to chase one with a wooden stick in
1773 - supposedly to bring it home as a present for his father
(keep your ears open for the tiger too).
