Hampshire

Episode 5.4
5 March 1987

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Contestants

Alva Key, Inland Revenue officer, and her husband Graham, music teacher; both from Stafford

Hint to the Treasure

Don’t miss the boat, it’s child play

Start Position

Clue 1	Strait towards insular danger for a pair in fighting trim. Pick the one who knows the Queensberry rules and await captain’s orders.
Leads to	HMS Boxer in the Solent off Newtown Bay on the Isle of Wight – Annie lands on HMS Nottingham and is then transferred by rope and pulley to Boxer, where the captain has the clue. 1

Clue 2	Hard research into Agamemnon’s beginnings leads to the office of a latter-day Noah. Investigate his underhand designs. 2
Leads to	Bucklers Hard – in shipmaker’s yard at maritime museum

Clue 3	Here’s a quickie: where Warbeck sought sanctuary, find a cerulean ornithomorph among veterans. 3
Leads to	Beaulieu Motor Museum – on ‘Bluebird’

Clue 4	In the dark and short on knowledge? South of the Verderers’ Court, near a “Badgers’ Wood” showground, the head agister has caught the drift. 4
Leads to	Brockenhurst – with head agister on farm at Black Knowl.

Clue 5	Where they made brass from salt, find the rest of the crew at the homophonic key on the hill, and see how brass can go to one’s head.
Leads to	Lymington – toy yacht on Quay Hill 5

Result

The contestants ran out of time on the final clue

Notes
1	The contestants originally send Annie south west towards the Needles but then notice that a “Danger Area” is marked on the map near Newtown Bay on the Isle of Wight. In the Solent off the shore are two Royal Navy frigates travelling side by side. One of them is HMS Boxer; the Queensbury Rules govern the sport of boxing.
2	Agamemnon was one of the ships that was launched from Buckler’s Hard. ‘Latter-day Noah’ refers to a shipbuilder.
3	Perkin Warbeck, a royal imposter, sought sanctuary at Beaulieu. ‘Cerulean’ means blue and ‘ornithomorph’ means bird-like – hence Bluebird, the car that broke the land-speed record.
4	An ‘agister’ is a person who takes in and feeds livestock for payment. The Verderers’ Court is held in Lymington; south of there is Brockenhurst. It takes the contestants a long time to discover that Brockenhurst Show is held at New Park to the north west of the town. Just south of there is Black Knowl (‘in the dark and short on knowledge’) where they see a fence around a small enclosure that contains a few horses.
5	The contestants realise that they need to send Annie south to Lymington, which make its money from salt extracted from the sea. However they send her to Keyhaven beyond Lymington, because the ‘key’ in the clue. They then wonder if ‘brass’ refers to a brass band. It turns out that the clue is on Quay Hill (‘homophonic key’) in Lymington, inside a brass diving helmet.

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