North Yorkshire
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Episode 2.4
26 January 1984
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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. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections and notes by Martin Underwood, 2010
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