Little Bridges #552 Welcome To Bristol Mystery Cache
Little Bridges #552 Welcome To Bristol
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This "little" bridge spans the Portway on the way in to Bristol... DO NOT attempt to pull in on the Portway! It's a very busy road. Headline coords usually has spaces to park.
Not so much the quaint little bridge in the middle of no where this one and the first of this type for us.
To find this cache delve in to the history of our fine city and find the answers to a few questions:
Joseph Fry created the first chocolate bar in Bristol in which year? 18A7
John Loudon McAdam invented tarmac in Bristol. In which year? 182B
Dr Vernon Charley invented ribena in Bristol in which year? 193C
Bristol Old Vic Theatre celebrates it's 250th birthday in 2016 and is the oldest in the country. In which year did it open? 176D
Bristol’s famous Blue Glass was created in the 1Eth century by adding cobalt oxide, imported from Saxony, to the glass-making process.
Redcliffe plumber William Watts invented lead shot in which year? 17F2
On 5 December 19G8, Queen Elizabeth II made Britains first Subscriber Trunk Dialling call when she rang the Lord Provost in Edinburgh from Bristol’s Central Telephone Exchange.
Designed and built in Filton, North Bristol, Concorde pushed passenger flight further and faster than anyone had previously thought possible. Its iconic design ensured that it will live on long after the supersonic passenger jets put out of commission. First flown in 1969, the planes were in service for 2H years. the final flight took place in October 2003, making a final flypast of Clifton Suspension Bridge, before touching down for the last time on the runway at Filton.
A camera obscura was set up in The Observatory on Clifton Downs in 182I in which visitors, according to the publicity material, could experience a multi-dimensional view of ‘the waving of the foliage and the coming and going of ships’.
To find the cache work out the following:
N51º(A-2)(I+1).HIG
W002º(B+1)(E-G).CDF
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast, Damian from Winter Foxes has created and updates a list of cachers who has found 10 or more little bridges and can be found here, if you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan here and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xx then name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to Damian’s list.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Zntargvp vaavg.