GC2DF62 "Cheers Drive" (Traditional Cache) in South West England, United Kingdom created by The Odyssians

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The Odyssians: Well, we set this cache up when living close by. It’s time to free up space for a new cache. Many many thanks to all visitors, some of whom we did actually meet. Happy caching.

GC2DF62 ▼

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Hidden : 8/15/2010

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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The trams used to terminate at the end of this road. In fact the buses used to as well, until the new village of Emersons Green appeared.

A magnetic cache. Stealth required.

"Cheers Drive!" is an often heard call from passengers decanting from buses in this area (areal) The phrase, common in Bristol and the environs, probably goes back a long way into the mists of time... We don't originate from Brizzle so are quite interested in the things around where we live. Hence, the cache.

Trams used to run down this road. Buses still do. The system was the best in the world.
'The tram system really began in the 1870's when there was no public transport apart from Hackney carriages which were beyond the means of ordinary folk. So the (Bristol) Corporation decided to build a tramway and set up Bristol Tramways to run it. The first line was along Whiteladies Road to Perry Road - a move which generated fierce opposition from Clifton folk who feared trains would bring hordes of working class people into their leafy suburbs.' Pictures can be found online.
Shops and churches were also opposed to trams!
The trams to Mangotsfield stopped, or terminated, at the end of Blackhorse Road. If you follow the road you will see iron posts akin to telegraph poles along the route taken.
The sparks from the trams could be seen from the air and when bombs rained down on Bristol on Good Friday 1941, setting the city alight with fires it seemed their fate was sealed.
The tram lines and power stations which fed them with electricity were hit and everywhere, trams ground to a halt.
All of Bristol's trams were scrapped and not one has been preserved for future generations. '...apart from the odd fitment still surviving, the main memorial to an unrivalled public transport system is a tramline still embedded in St Mary Redcliffe churchyard where it was blown by a bomb...
Congratulations to Cave Dwellers for FTF !

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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