Surrey

Episode 4.4
16 January 1986




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Contestants Lynne Crinson, head of secretarial agency in Stroud, and her neighbour Tim Pearce, estate agent in Bristol.
Hint to the Treasure Something Annie will have to face up to
Start Position Colley Hill
Clue 1 Go to the immediate aid of Surrey’s noble fire brigade. High level action’s needed to take the next problem in hand. 1
Leads to Surrey Fire Brigade College, Wray Park, Reigate – on side of brick practice tower
Clue 2 Drop in on the compleat angler and a former Prime Minister, and debag a driver at Fowler’s 17th.
Leads to Walton-on-the-Hill golf course – attached to Cliff Michelmore’s driver on 17th hole 2
Clue 3 Discover how a taste for gin helped erase memories of Madame Guillotine, then make a Lebanese trunk call.
Leads to Juniper Hall near Mickleham – on top of nesting box on cedar tree
Clue 4 Elementary, my dear Kenneth: the Speckled Band guides you to Yehudi’s, and the girl with the alto clef will produce the right note.
Leads to Menuhin Music School, Millfield Lodge, Stoke D’Abernon – on viola in orchestra
Clue 5 Towards the Great Wen, macaques and peccaries may have winning ways. But the big top prize has gone to the Coco nuts.
Leads to Chessington Zoo – Annie gets ‘custard pied’ by clown
Result The contestants won the treasure


Notes
1 This clue led to Surrey Fire Brigade’s Wray Park training centre. Annie had to ascend on the hydraulic platform to reach the clue, which was hanging from the side of a brick tower from which smoke was billowing.
2 Cliff Michelmore (b 1919) was a well-known TV presenter during the 1960s and 1970s.