Devon

Episode 6.10
21 April 1988

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Contestants

Veronica Beryl, tea shop owner, and her sister Ann Power, insurance manager; both from Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Hint to the Treasure

You’ll cop it at the crossroads

Start Position

Pudcombe Cove, near Scabbacombe Head, south of Brixham 1

Clue 1	Use 50p to move to Hardy Country – for a flying visit to a seafaring bird. Cross that bridge when you come to it! 2
Leads to	HMS Sandpiper at sea near Dartmouth – in the captain’s pocket

Clue 2	A dressmaker’s tuck leads beyond Sir Walter’s puffing place. Take a passage opposite a Miss Marple link to the bell that calls time. 3
Leads to	Ferry Boat pub, Dittisham – in the ship’s bell behind the bar

Clue 3	Where Babbage took his first byte, butter up to the Elizabethans and find the Number One burgher. 4
Leads to	Civic Hall Square, Totnes – with ‘mayor’ at Elizabethan Market

Clue 4	An apparent address for the Princess Royal on one side, an archangel on the other and a message from the Richthofen circus in between. 5
Leads to	Torbay Aircraft Museum, Blagdon – on Red Baron biplane

Clue 5	(not revealed)
Leads to	Torquay Model Village – miniature policeman ‘directing traffic’ on crossroads.

Result

The contestants ran out of time on the way to clue 4

Notes
1	After she introduces the crew, Anneka is handed a 50p coin by Graham.
2	Anneka flies to Dartmouth Naval College and then transfers to a Royal Navy Wessex helicopter (Wessex = Hardy Country) which flies her out to sea where she is is winched down on to HMS Sandpiper (a Bird class patrol craft: seafaring bird). She meets the captain on the bridge and the clue is in his pocket.
3	Still in the Wessex, Anneka flies upstream following the River Dart. Beyond the Anchor stone (where Raleigh used to smoke his long pipe), is Greenway House, the home of Miss Jane Marple’s creator, Agatha Christie. She takes the ferry (hence the 50p in the previous clue) across the Dart to Dittisham. In The Ferry Boat pub, she finds the bell that calls the time, and the clue is on the clapper. [The contestants lost a lot of time on this clue].
4	Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer, was born in Totnes (where Babbage took his first byte), and the Butterwalk (butter up) is a famous street in the town. Every Tuesday during the summer, local shopkeepers and stallholders dress in Elizabethan costume for a unique market day. When Anneka arrives, the Number One burgher (the mayor) is outside the civic hall and has the clue in his hat.
5	German World War I fighter ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen was known as ‘The Red Baron’.

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