Cornwall
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Episode 2.9
1 March 1984
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| Contestants |
Terry Hickman and work colleague John Willis, police officers
from Kidderminster |
| Description of the Treasure |
A silver brooch of an animal |
| Clue 1 |
Opposite a place with the same name as a Dutch port, a storybook
toad emerged. Find letters to a mouse and register the date.
1 |
| Leads to |
Falmouth – in the May 1907 register of the Greenbank Hotel |
| Clue 2 |
West of an NT maze is a creek where the Walrus and the Carpenter
would have had a feast. The biggest native holds the clue. |
| Leads to |
Porth Navas – in oyster shell in Duchy of Cornwall oyster farm |
| Clue 3 |
At the station on the hilly down line, find a way among tracks
and signals up the No 3 ascender and consult the ultimate waveguide.
2 |
| Leads to |
Goonhilly Downs – on waveguide of no 3 dish aerial |
| Clue 4 |
In a Seahawk in a Seahawk in a Seahawk. |
| Leads to |
RNAS Culdrose, Helston – inside plastic model of a Seahawk
in cockpit of Seahawk aircraft in Royal Naval aircraft museum 3 |
| Clue 5 |
A course in a place akin to Greek will help you understand
the treatment of Halichoerus Grypus. The treasure lies deep among the weanlings.
4, 5 |
| Leads to |
Gweek seal sanctuary – seal pendant attached to a brick at
bottom of weanlings pool |
| Result |
The contestants won the treasure with 19 seconds to spare |
| Notes |
| 1 |
Two letters beginning ‘Dear Mouse’, and dated 10 and 23 May
1907, by ‘Wind In the Willows’ author Kenneth Grahame, are displayed in the
hotel foyer. |
| 2 |
A Goonhilly Downs engineer runs with Annie to the no 3 ascender
(dish aerial) and leads her inside. He explains that the waveguide is used to
feed the signal from the aerial, but the contestants instruct Annie to look
for a copy of the Radio Times or TV Times magazines. |
| 3 |
Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose is also known as HMS
Seahawk. |
| 4 |
‘Halichoerus Grypus’ is the grey seal |
| 5 |
Annie has to remove her comms pack and dive into the pool
to retrieve the clue. Terry (or maybe John) chirpily instructs her to
“Dive in. Go on. Get wet. In you splash.” |
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