Letham War Memorial
Letham War Memorial is a relatively new war memorial, having been created in 2013. It commemorates those who died in two World Wars and also in Letham Coal Mine. Unusually, he does not bear the names of the deceased. I can only assume this is the first and original war memorial for the village, and the nearby Airth War Memorial doesn't make any reference to any of the names being of Letham, although the Airth Parish included the villages of Dunmore, Letham and South Alloa. In any event a separate memorial for Letham has been created, which incorporates the deaths at Letham Coal Mine.
The coal mine sat near the north end of the current Letham Playing Fields, toward the Letham Cottages Road. It was established in 1909 and operated by the Carron Iron Company and employed 170 men. The two sets of 'model' housing nearby (Letham Cottages and Letham Terrace) were for the mine workers.
Finding The Cache
This is a multi-cache, which means the cache is not at the published coordinates but you can gather information there to help you find it. You can find more information about multicaches here. When you get to the published coordinates you will see a community information board next to the memorial, explaining the history of Letham Village. You can get all the information you need from that, to find the cache.
A: In the Timeline to the left, 1_34 Captain William Baillie Takes possession of the lands of Letham
B: Look at the section titled 'Carron Company', the third digit on the first sentence is _
C: The section titled 'The Lands of Letham', how many digits in the second paragraph?
D: In the Timeline, the new mineral railway here was completed in 19_0
E: In the Timeline, first entry, (pre...) add the first two digits together to get __
F: Look at the map, showing the colliery location and the pit numbers, two times the the second number is __
The cache is located at: N 56° 3.ABC' W 3° 46.DEF'
The sum of all the missing numbers A-F should be 26.
The War Memorial National Geocache Series
If anybody would like to expand the War Memorials cache series, please do, I would just ask that you could let Just-Us-Two know first at justustwo1013@gmail.com so they can keep track of the memorial numbers and names to avoid any duplication.
