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Each Peter Pan cache is a
multi-cache. The given location is your local Peter Pan statue
designed by Sir George Frampton (1860-1928) following a commission
by J M Barrie. Seven castings were made and the statues reside
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The London statue was erected
in secret during the night and 'magically' appeared on 1st May
1912, having been originally commissioned in 1910. There was no
publicity before the statue's arrival and on the day, Barrie placed
this announcement in The Times:
"There is a surprise in store for the children who go to
Kensington Gardens to feed the ducks in the Serpentine this
morning. Down by the little bay on the south-western side of the
tail of the Serpentine they will find a May-day gift by Mr J.M.
Barrie, a figure of Peter Pan blowing his pipe on the stump of a
tree, with fairies and mice and squirrels all around. It is the
work of Sir George Frampton, and the bronze figure of the boy who
would never grow up is delightfully
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It is said that J M Barrie was
not particularly happy with the initial design and that Belgium
gained the first casting, whilst that in London is in fact the
second casting. More likely is that the Brussels Peter Pan was
Frampton's war memorial gift to Belgium - it dates from 1924.
Certainly questions were raised in the Houses of Parliament about
the appropriateness of the 1912 statue in a Royal Park. Kensington
Gardens is where J M Barrie met the boys who were to be the basis
of the Peter Pan story, and the exact location was chosen by Barrie
who himself then lived close to Kensington Gardens. The London
statue suffered damage in 1943 and in 1952 the pipe was stolen,
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Each
cache has a micro / nano container not far from the Peter Pan
statue. Inside each stage one micro / nano are the LONGITUDE and
LATITUDE of two other Peter Pans. Find geo-friends, swop LONGS and
LATS - and go find your own final stage two cache. If any of your
team of friends with whom you have swopped Longitudes and Latitudes
claim a find, then you can also claim their (overseas) find. This
gives you a total of seven possible claimed
finds.
Your log will
need to name the members of your team and
tinkerbell
requires the
password from the logbook inside the final cache container. You
will need to email to members of your team the password so that
they can also validly claim the cache!
To find the
Peter Pan (London) stage one micro go to the given location
where in front of the statue you will find a plaque on the ground.
On it there are four sets of dates. Let us deal with years only.
The first is 1860 - ABCD, the second is 1860 to EFGH, the third and
fourth both begin on the 1st May and end in turn JKLM and NOPQ.Your
stage one nano is north of Peter Pan on a bearing of CP(Q-G)
degress for a distance of (M+G)MH metres. Inside you will ONLY find
the Latitude and Longitude of two other Peter Pans' final cache
locations. The new coordinates of Liverpool are now in this
cache.
Contents of
final container include finders cards, cut-outs of the statue to
take home - and the usual stuff. Wheel chair accessibility applies
to Stage One only. Stage One is just outside the park and Stage Two
is in Holland Park.
Watch you tube video of Peter
Pan: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-ROaSD-Os"
PICTURE -
© 1999 George P. Landow