Black & White Set 1 Mystery Cache
bill&ben: I think it is time to retire this cache.
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This cache is reachable from the E Herts Chain Walk North of Moor Green. The cache is a 1L container containing a log book, pencils and some small goodies.
A while ago we put out a nostalgia based cache, Silvine, which was reasonably well received, so we have decided to put out other ones in a similar vein. This time the theme of the cache is all those black and white films we watched in the 50’s and 60’s, with their stiff upper lips and accents to match.
Please note that there is some confusion about the dates of films on web sites. Sometimes the date quoted is when the film is made, sometimes the date is the release date. For the purposes of this cache the BFI copyright date has been taken (visit link)
So first up what about all those stiff upper lip war films? Does any one remember “Angels One Five” made in 195A? A film full of really decent chaps called Septic, Tiger and Bonzo. Then there is “The Ship That Died of Shame” from 195B starring a young Bill Owen alongside Dickie Attenborough and George Baker. A film introducing the idea of engines with souls, decades before Fred Dibnah. For real British stiff upper lip you can do no better than “Morning Departure” 195C, arguably one of the best films ever made. Superb performance by a young Dickie Attenborough in a film about a doomed submarine crew on the seabed.
What about films that capture the class structure and manners of this nation of ours. A beautiful film was made in 195D (not to be confused with some obscure recent American film) where a group of criminals come up against “Mrs Lopsided”, an elderly lady of very straight principles and some eccentricity. A personal favourite of Bill & Bens was made in 195E. It gives a glimpse of northern Victorian life and its class attitudes which contains the memorable line from Will Mossop “It’s almost worth being ruined to see your name in the Manchester Guardian.” We remember this film from childhood days by the scene where a drunken Mr Hobson (Charles Laughton) tries to stamp out the reflection of the moon in puddles but fails as the moon moves on to the next puddle. Of a later period is the classic Boulting brothers “I’m Alright Jack” 195F a parody of the worker-boss relationship and self interest in post war Britain.
Our final selection has crime and punishment as its theme. The real classic here has to be the 194G film that introduced the nation to George Dixon. Unfortunately George has some “health and safety” issues which result in his death and subsequent man hunt for the killer, Dirk Dogarde. The final film is “The Wrong Arm of the Law” 196H which gives a different interpretation to the relationship between police and criminals. Lionel Jeffries plays the incompetent Inspector Nosey Parker with Peter Sellers as the criminal master mind Pearly Gates and Bernard Cribbins as Nervous O’Toole.
We used to tell our offspring that “In our day the world was in black and white.” One of them took this very seriously and it was years before he realised we were referring to the TV!
So, now onto the cache which is located at
N51 5D.(F-3)(G-2)(A-1)
W000 0(H+2).(C+3)(B+2)(E+5)
GPS coverage at this time of year is not good at the site, however the cache is hidden where you would expect to find it, just off the track.
There is car parking for this cache at the coordinates at the top of the sheet or thereabouts.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Vafvqr n gerr jvgu n irel ovt ubyr va vg ba gur svryq fvqr bs gur cngu.
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