Lothian
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Episode 1.5
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| Contestants | Julie Haywood, wine bar worker from Fulham, and her husband Martin, a carpenter |
| Start Position | Linlithgow Palace |
| Clue 1 | General Tam Dalyell left his boots where his eponymous descendant now lives, under the royal plasterwork. The clue is in the right leg. 1 |
| Leads to | House of The Binns – in a boot in the King’s Bedroom |
| Clue 2 | An inch below a bridge that spans the Forth will yield mugshots of the appropriate Queen. 2 |
| Leads to | Forth Railway Bridge – old coin on Inch Garvie island |
| Clue 3 | The founder of the Rothschild Rosebery Stud is visible from the air in the obvious place. He’s got no shoes so look for another boot. 3 |
| Leads to | Dalmeny House – tiny boot on a statue of a horse in the grounds |
| Clue 4 | There’s an ancient monument embedded in the south-eastern suburbs, and embedded in the fireplace in Queen Mary’s room is a crown. 4 |
| Leads to | Craigmillar Castle – coin in fireplace of Queen Mary’s Room |
| Clue 5 | Uther Pendragon’s son must have had a peculiar backside if this last site is any indication. What you seek was once very difficult to get hold of. 5 |
| Leads to | Arthur’s Seat – sword in the trig point monument at the top of the hill |
| Bonus Clue | Look for the principal character in The Wind in the Willows and make him speak. 6 |
| Leads to | Arthur’s Seat – toy toad under rock near the trig point |
| Result | The contestants won the treasure and the bonus prize, a bottle of champagne, with 55 seconds to spare. |
| Notes | |
| 1 | General Thomas ‘Tam’ Dalyell was a 17th century ancestor of Tam Dalyell, Labour MP and current occupier of The Binns. ‘Royal Plasterwork’ refers to the King’s Bedroom. |
| 2 | ‘Inch’ refers to Inch Garvie, the small island adjacent to the Forth Railway Bridge. |
| 3 | Dalmeny House is the family home of the Earls of Rosebery and contains the Rothschild Collection, a set of 18th century paintings and tapestries. King Tom, whose statue stands next to Dalmeny House, was the stallion which founded Rothschild’s Mentmore stud. |
| 4 | Mary Queen of Scots lived at Craigmillar Castle. |
| 5 | According to legend, Uther Pendragon was the father of King Arthur, who pulled the sword Excalibur from the stone. The helicopter deposits Annie part-way up Arthur’s Seat, a high rocky hill next to Edinburgh, and she has to run to the top. |
| 6 | Toad was the principal character in Kenneth Grahame’s book, ‘The Wind in the Willows’. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2010
Page design © Martin Underwood, 2014
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