Humberside

Episode 7.10
20 April 1989



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Contestants Juliet Mander, drama teacher from Stratford-upon-Avon, and her second cousin Edward Lipscomb, theatre designer from Bristol
Hint to the Treasure Hello dolly
Start Position Wolds Way, north and west of Humber Bridge
Clue 1 Where William IV’s niece is regally square, take civic steps to Tea for Two. Excuse me, is his nickname Woody? 1
Leads to Hull City Hall – with hall manager at tea dance
Clue 2 Find the Dutch connection with King George, and get a buoyant message from the nearby Guardian. Talk Edith Sitwell’s Jane into helping. 2
Leads to King George Dock, Hull – on yellow buoy being unloaded from ship ‘Humber Guardian’
Clue 3 Park at the tailor-cum-painter’s, find a passport to the great old dining room, and look for something handy below fesses and pales. 3
Leads to Burton Constable Hall – on weeping woman’s handkerchief
Re-position to Bishop Burton College of Agriculture
Clue 4 Singing sisters, a dedication to St John, and Evangelistic doors; then petrified pipers and drummers lead to the sound of hurdy-gurdy music. 4
Leads to Beverley Minster – on hurdy-gurdy in group of musicians playing in the minster
Clue 5 At Thompson’s tower
Where they make flour
The meal floor track
Will end with the sack. 5
Leads to Skidby Windmill – corn dolly
Result The contestants ran out of time on the final clue


Notes
1 The contestants send Annabel to Victoria Square (Victoria was William IV’s niece) in Hull and to the Civic Hall. A tea-dance (take civic steps, Tea for Two) is in progress – a lady’s excuse me. Annabel dances with the manager Peter Allen (‘Woody’ Allen), who has the clue inside his jacket pocket.
2 Annabel flies to King George Dock in Hull, from where ships sail to Rotterdam (the Dutch connection with King George). She lands on middle wharf and run to the ship ‘Humber Guardian’. A crane (“Jane, Jane tall as a crane / The morning light creaks down again!” from a poem by Edith Sitwell), lifts a buoy on to the dockside, and the clue is attached to the top.
3 Annabel flies to Burton Constable, where members of the Sealed Knot society, dressed in 16/17th century period costume, are re-enacting a ‘war’. In the Great Hall (formerly a dining room) is an heraldic shield (fesses and pales), and nearby a woman sits weeping having ‘lost’ her husband in the ‘war’. The clue is on her handkerchief (something handy).
4 In the west door of the Minster Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Beverley, are oak panels depicting Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The stone ‘petrified’ pillars have cherubs playing pipes and drums. A man in period costume playing a hurdy-gurdy (a stringed instrument) has the clue.
5 Annabel flies to Skidby Windmill, dating from 1821 and maintained until after the Second World War by its owners, the Thompson family, before being donated in 1968 to Beverley Rural District Council who restored it and opened it to the public. The treasure is a corn dolly by sacks of meal flour on the meal floor track (conveyor belt), but the contestants run out of time.





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