This One's for Fred - GC11Y9D

Fred Dibnah's House in Bolton

This cache is all about a famous son of Bolton, Fred Dibnah, who sadly died in 2004. As I knew where Fred used to live, Sarah and I decided to go straight to his house from the previous cache. After looking around all the familiar places in his garden that we've seen on TV, we realised that the cache wasn't actually here but down the steep sided valley at the back of the house and across the narrow river.
 

Fred's Workyard

We remembered that Fred used a bow to fire an arrow carrying a line into the trees and down into this valley, but we can't for the life of us remember what for - was it something to do with erecting his pit head and coal mine? We'll have to checkout the DVD.

Cemetery Gates

Anyway, after taking a few pictures of the house we got back in the car and drove round to the cemetery on the other side of the river where Fred is buried in view of his beloved house and workshop.  We parked just outside the gates and walked across the cemetery towards GZ.  I wasn't sure at first that this was the way we were supposed to go - however, by doing this we had actually made a bee-line straight for the cache location.

Can you see it yet?

Using the hint I quickly found the cache container, but it was very well-camouflaged and could easily be missed by the casual glance. In it was a splendid Matchbox BattleKings Hovercraft that I just had to take, in spite of not having anything worthy to leave in its place, sorry. I'll need to come back later and leave something in exchange.

On the the edge of the cache location

This was a great place to visit although it was tinged with more than a little sadness now that Fred is no longer with us. A great bloke who is greatly missed.

Memorial plaque outside Fred's house