Cambridgeshire
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Episode 2.8
23 February 1984
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| Contestants |
Alastair Hackett and work colleague Michael Greenwood, local
government officers from Dunfermline |
| Description of the Treasure |
A blue enamel brooch |
| Clue 1 |
Not a Barrett home, but Elsie’s: whose bedtime stories were
just so; there’s a déjà vu feeling under the lantern where a torchère has a
message. 1 |
| Leads to |
Wimpole Hall –
on torchère in Yellow Drawing Room |
| Clue 2 |
Get a telescopic sight, then join the Army, but Annie forget
your gun. The enemy are all clued up. 2 |
| Leads to |
Barton Road Rifle Range –
on the helmet of one of the targets |
| Clue 3 |
Among the regal groves of Academe, an exact science describes
a fluvial arc. To figure it out, Annie must float off the fellows’ backs.
3 |
| Leads to |
Mathematical Bridge,
Queen’s College, Cambridge – attached to the underside of one of the bridge supports |
| Clue 4 |
Stands the church clock at ten to three? Cherries and honey
hold the key. |
| Leads to |
Churchyard, Church of St Andrew and St Mary,
Grantchester – in a pot of honey hanging from a tree |
| Clue 5 |
At the house of Hobson’s choice, 9000 have met their Waterloo.
The treasure lies below a Constable connection. 4 |
| Leads to |
Anglesey Abbey –
a tiny policeman’s helmet under Constable’s painting ‘The Opening of Waterloo Bridge’ |
| Result |
The contestants ran out of time on the way the treasure |
| Notes |
| ● |
The clues for this episode were written in a different style:
pale blue text on a dark blue background instead of the normal white lettering
on a transparent background. |
| 1 |
‘Barrett’ refers to ‘the Barretts of Wimpole Street’. Wimpole
Hall was once occupied by Elsie, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, who wrote the
‘Just So Stories’. |
| 2 |
Barton Road rifle range lies near the site of a radio telescope. |
| 3 |
Annie has to punt on the Cam to find the clue but gets into
difficulty while Kenneth and the contestants mistakenly direct her to the Fellows’
Garden. Finally, Annie sees the clue attached to the underside of the bridge
but has to climb into a rowing boat and then into another punt to retrieve it. |
| 4 |
Anglesey Abbey was once owned by Thomas Hobson and houses
a 9000-book library with shelves made of wood from the old Waterloo Bridge. |
Information © David Hodges, 2003, with corrections by Martin Underwood, 2010
Page design © Martin Underwood,
2015
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