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Episode 2.12
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| Contestants | Keith Burchett, supermarket manager from Guildford, and friend Tony Waterhouse, model railway tourist attraction manager from Cornwall. |
| Description of the Treasure | A little silver brooch of a snake |
| Start Position | Hovering above Croxteth Hall, 3 km north of Knotty Ash |
| Clue 1 | Journey’s end for Myrmidon; above her bell the home of the corvus holds the clue. 1 |
| Leads to | Liverpool docks – on crow’s nest of ship ‘Myrmidon’ |
| Clue 2 | South of the hepatic birds and below the cupola, see where Gibraltar lies South of Aden, then look for the underhand message. 2 |
| Leads to | Port of Liverpool building – under clock |
| Clue 3 | Over the water to Paxton’s prototype for a Big Apple-core pleasance. The link between the islands is your goal. 3 |
| Leads to | Birkenhead Park – under roof of covered bridge between islands in lake |
| Clue 4 | Where Phoebus is fulgent, find Frith’s new frock. 4 |
| Leads to | Port Sunlight – under Frith’s painting ‘The New Frock’ in the Lady Lever art gallery |
| Clue 5 | There’s the sound of talk in the hall which shelters Adam and Eve. For the hole where you can eavesdrop, take a ladder to a snake. 5 |
| Leads to | Speke Hall – silver brooch in the shape of a snake in eaves |
| Result | The contestants won the treasure with 1 minute 22 seconds to spare. |
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| 1 | Corvus is the Latin name for the crow. |
| 2 | Hepatic is the medical term that relates to the liver (Liver building). Alongside a grand staircase in the Port of Liverpool building are stained-glass windows depicting Gibraltar and Aden. On a nearby balcony is a clock, and the clue is attached to the underside (‘underhand’). |
| 3 | Central Park in New York (‘Big Apple’) was modelled on Birkenhead Park, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton. Annie rows across the lake to an island where she finds a covered bridge. She can’t reach the clue, which is attached to the underside of the roof, so Frankie holds the camera while Graham jumps to retrieve it. |
| 4 | ‘Phoebus’ (sun god) and ‘fulgent’ (shining) leads to Port Sunlight. |
| 5 | ‘Adam and Eve’ are two yew trees in the courtyard of Speke Hall, and the treasure is in a hole in the eaves of the building. Annie is supposed to climb a ladder to reach the brooch, but her helpers accidentally knock it to the ground while setting the ladder. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2010
Page design © Martin Underwood, 2014
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