Shropshire
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Episode 3.8
14 February 1985
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| Contestants |
Simon Boreham, banker from Sevenoaks, and friend Nicholas Bundy,
telecomms employee from London |
| Hint to the Treasure |
Help yourself to something refreshing |
| Clue 1 |
Treasures ‘teme’ at a Cornwall family home. Our quest: a ruby
from Gravetye, a cultivated traveller’s joy. |
| Leads to |
Burford House Gardens –
hidden in the plant ‘Gravetye’ |
| Clue 2 |
The end of the road for a Shropshire lad, a sign of the Prince
of Wales, and finally the hustings. |
| Leads to |
The Feathers Hotel,
Ludlow – attached to Prince of Wales feathers sign hanging from balcony |
| Clue 3 |
Add fuel to the fire, say, as a fortification before the next
station, and ask at the ticket office for a cross-reference to a peephole. |
| Leads to |
Stokesay Castle –
in peephole in the Solar Room |
| Clue 4 |
Across the valley of the apes to a scene of Scott-ish horsepower,
where Beatrix Potter’s Robinsons will sent you up the wall. |
| Leads to |
Acton Scott Working Farm –
on wall-hung trough in pig sty |
| Clue 5 |
S W TOTS A WIN. Plough that up and fill a jug of home brew. |
| Leads to |
The Plough pub,
Wistanstow – Annie has to pull a pint of beer from a barrel outside the entrance |
| Result |
The contestants won the treasure with 40 seconds to spare |
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