North Yorkshire

Episode 2.4
26 January 1984



Introduction
Clue 1
Clue 2
Clue 3
Clue 4
Clue 5


Contestants Barbara Green, primary school teacher, and husband Paul, civil servant; both from Northern Ireland.
Description of the Treasure A silver White Rose of Yorkshire brooch
Start Position Naburn Lock – on the River Ouse south of York
Clue 1 At a Rocket base in Eboracum behold the fiery monster. The little red wheels will solve a Chinese puzzle.
Leads to National Railway Museum, York – hanging on red wheel in cab of Chinese steam locomotive, Number 607 1
Clue 2 Murder will out, he wrote. Now he hangs – part of a capital picture show – beyond the Poppletons, beside a trusted bed. The next disclosure lies below the tester.
Leads to Beningbrough Hall – under a pillow on a four-poster bed in the State Bedroom
Clue 3 Currer Bell’s brother sketched his lodgings in a Thorpe which was green and is now below the wood. The elm he drew harbours the clue.
Leads to Thorpe Underwood – in elm tree by Home Farm (sketched by Branwell Brontë, brother of Charlotte, whose pen name was ‘Currer Bell’)
Clue 4 A bear of very little brain is well and truly petrified by the Nidd.
Leads to Knaresborough – on toy Pooh Bear hanging in Mother Shipton’s Petrifying Well 2 on the banks of the River Nidd
Clue 5 What Abbot Richard started, Marmaduke Huby finished; where the brothers washed after meals a Yorkshire rose lies hidden.
Leads to Fountains Abbey – silver rose near wash-basins in cloister
Result The contestants won the treasure with 14 seconds to spare


Notes
1 Anneka finds the Chinese locomotive, an enormous black engine with a big lantern on the firebox door. On one side there are steps to make it easy for visitors to get into the cab, but she goes round to the opposite side, misled by the loco’s driving wheels which are also red. Eventually she looks up and sees that the valves in the cab also have small red wheels, so with some difficulty she, Graham and Frankie climb up the ladder which the driver and fireman would have used.
2 Mother Shipton’s Petrifying Well has a limestone-rich stream which trickles over objects (gloves, teddy bears etc) which visitors have hung up. Over many years, the limestone deposits on the objects, turning them to stone.





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