Rugger Bugger Traditional Cache
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Forget football, rugby’s a real mans game.
This little cache is placed near Bingham’s Pond, which is beside the Great Western Road as it heads out of Glasgow.
In the early 1900’s the boathouse at Bingham’s Pond acted as the Glasgow Accies rugby pavilion.
In December 1870, following a series of England v. Scotland eleven-a-side football matches played in London (all of which were won by England), a group of Scots players issued a letter of challenge in The Scotsman and in Bell's Life in London, to play an England XX at the carrying game. The English could hardly ignore such a challenge and this led to the first-ever rugby international match being played at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, on Monday 27 March, 1871. The Scots won the encounter by a goal and a try to a solitary try scored by England (a points scoring system had not then been devised). Six Glasgow Academicals were included in the Scottish XX.
From 1871 onwards a great deal of the early Scottish rugby history was laid down in the area of Anniesland and the main Glasgow teams still play out in this neck of the woods.
Bingham's Pond was created in the 1880s on the site of old brick and coal pits. The boathouse was built circa 1885 and became a tearoom. The eastern part of the site was sold in 1956 and in the 1960’s that part of the pond was in-filled and the Pond Hotel and a car park were built there.
In 2003 two islands was formed in the pond as a sanctuary for swans and other birds.
The pond is a real haven for birds; there are lots of different breeds of duck, geese, coots, moorhens and swans. There were quite a few broods of ducklings and cygnets at the time of placing the cache. Please take time to walk around the perimeter of the pond to see the wildlife.
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