Warwickshire

Episode 3.2
3 January 1985

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Contestants

Cecilia Robertson, swimming teacher, and Mary Trinder, housewife; both from Dumfries

Hint to the Treasure

A miniature work of art

Start Position

Clue 1	Twenty-one locks secure a capital diamond centre, but a buoyant hero of Khartoum has the key 1
Leads to	Hatton Locks – on boat ‘General Gordon’

Clue 2	Gatecrash a Kingmaker’s family house party, head for the sound of music, then inspect the still life 2
Leads to	Warwick Castle – on the salver held by a waiter 3

Clue 3	In Shallow ground where young Will poached / Are the crested seats on which Lucy was coached
Leads to	Charlecote Park – in the Lucy coach 4

Clue 4	“The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the Blessed role of king”
Leads to	Stratford-upon-Avon – with actor Brian Blessed in Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Clue 5	Bedtime for the future bride of Aston Cantlow, and all’s well that ends well 5
Leads to	Mary Arden’s House in Wilmcote – miniature edition of ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ in bedroom

Result

The contestants won the treasure with 15 seconds to spare.

Notes
1	Hatton Garden is the London street that is famous for its many high-class jewellers. General Gordon was the hero of the Battle of Khartoum in 1885.
2	Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, was nicknamed ‘Warwick the Kingmaker’ for his role in assisting Edward IV to be crowned king during the Wars of the Roses, and later restoring Henry VI to the throne.
3	Annie has to find a music room in which a number of waxwork dummies are posed as if listening to a quartet playing music. But the figure of the waiter in the group is not a dummy and Annie gets a shock when he moves (!)
4	Legend has it that in his youth William Shakespeare was caught poaching in Charlecote Park by its first owner, Sir Thomas Lucy, a local magistrate. Shakespeare later based the character Justice Shallow in ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ on Sir Thomas.
5	Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare, was married at Aston Cantlow. Her family’s house in Wilmcote is preserved as Mary Arden’s House.

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