GC38EQ3 Underground
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: matthew-h @ | Hide Date: 27/11/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United Kingdom | State: London
Coordinates: N51° 30.938 W0° 07.910   British Grid: TQ 29725 81288 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
               

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Placed outside Soho Square near ground level. A camouflaged magnetic brass nano. Although placed in a very busy area you might have some luck with this, but avoid if possible between 12.00 and 14.00 when the lunchtime crowd descends. There is sometimes a large plastic box containing rat poison on the ground nearby, this is not what you are looking for!

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This cache celebrates all the underground activity both past and present that goes on below this area of London. In the many years of working nearby in the video industry I have been aware of the numerous underground connections to the buildings here. Engineers connecting cable between cellars have reported underground rivers and sets of bricked in lion cages below otherwise modern reception areas. My first employment was in a building with three exits in three different streets all connected by a warren of edit suites, studios and workshops. There are three layers if you could look down through ground beneath the cache site. The first is the deserted WW2 bomb shelters constructed below Soho square itself, check out the crumbling cement of the entrance stairway hidden in the bushes across the square from the cache. The second is the Central Line platforms of Tottenham Court Road Tube and below them still are the twin bores of the new crossrail station, the cause of many buildings being demolished in north Soho at the time of hiding. Hidden on the feast of St. Nicholas Chrysoberges

23/09/2019 By Kabutroid
Ooohhhh, it's been a while since this girl has geocached ? And this is like extra special for me, I'm from way out in Canada!

First trip to London, first trip overseas, I just HAD to get a cache while I was out there. Took some reminding by my friend Angelfreak to remember to look for one, so I'm glad she did

Thankfully, I signed up for data service while overseas here (12 dollars daily for roaming, flat fee!) as I didn't bring my GPS with me. More or less banked everything on the cellphone... which worked

So yeah, I spent some time kinda scrolling around on the map (don't mind me, I love to tell a story in my geocaching logs) to find out what was vaguely nearby to where I was going. My main quest today was to get an umbrella at James Smith & Sons down at New Oxford and Bloomsbury, and then see what was nearby. Lo and behold, I spy with my little eye a cache hiding down around Soho Square park. Interesting little park by the way. Packed to the hilt when I got there, but I was discreet.

Now I gotta say, a GPS is SO much better than using a cellphone. 14 meters, 10 meters, 4 meters, back up to 22 meters, goodness, make up your mind!

Oh, sorry about the metric btw lol. Noticed you guys like to use feet and yards.

Anyhoos, so I trotted on over from James Smith & Sons, overshot my mark by a few blocks, and eventually found my way to the square. A quick circle around, and, despite my cellphone being rather inaccurate, found my way to the right area. And so I subtly looked about... finding nothing. Some poking and prodding while kinda wandering the area (which slowed me down a bit, but y'know... muggles). Alas, I resorted to reading the previous logs... to no assistance.

It had to be done. It was too busy, and I couldn't rist poking and prodding too much. I had to look at the hint (AAAAUUUUGGGHHHHH).

One hint later though, and well... that area I had poked at once or twice got a little bit more inspection done to it. Soon after, the cache was in my hands!

Amazing cache container btw

Opening up the logbook, I added my name in teensy tiny print like the others, and replaced it as found. Though as is my custom, I had to leave my signature item, a chainmaille ball.

Don't worry, I've designed ones small enough to fit anywhere. 24 gauge wire, barely the width of a human hair! It slipped into the crevasse at the bottom of the container, clear out of the way of the log. Mission accomplished

Thank you so much for the cache! Not only did it put a sudden jump of 6209km from my last cache (thank you Google), but it's my first cache in London! Thank you so much!!!!!

Have a wonderful, wonderful day over there, k? ?

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and micromaille ball