Derbyshire – Peak District

Episode 7.14
18 May 1989



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Contestants Hilary Bett, housewife from Bedford, and Bryan Baker, systems design engineer from Holt, Wiltshire
Hint to the Treasure Not much of a score
Start Position Soles Hill 1
Clue 1 Where young walkers stop by a motoring part, go to the giardini and pick out the gouache among the acrylics and oils. 2
Leads to Ilam Country Park – in artist’s watercolour paintbox in Italian Garden
Clue 2 In the town with a Pancake Day game, check a little man from St John’s who by Wright is gingering up the market. 3
Leads to Market Place, Ashbourne – on gingerbread man in open-air market stall
Re-position to Hartington 4
Clue 3 Close to Bateman’s barrow quartet, the put-puts have a flying start. Identify the high-grade twin and find instructions in the pod. 5
Leads to Hurdlow – with pilot of microlight aircraft
Clue 4 Near Carr’s Bathonian clone, the local La Scala offers a Donizetti foretaste. Disregard the bel canto and probe the props for papers. 6
Leads to Buxton Opera House – among props on stage
Clue 5 Below the hey-diddle-diddle pub, follow the expanded Goyt, and take a floating pram to the bathtime favourite. 7
Leads to Errwood Reservoir – toy duck floating on water
Result The contestants won the treasure with 11 seconds to spare


Notes
1 As she introduces the crew, Annabel produces a large Bakewell Pudding that she’d bought at the Old Pudding Shoppe in Bakewell the previous day.
2 Near a Youth Hostel (where young walkers stop) by the River Manifold (a motoring part) is Ilam Country Park, and in the Italian formal garden (giardini) Annabel finds a group of artists at work. The clue is in the paintbox of a watercolour (gouache) painter.
3 Hilary and Bryan send Annabel to Ashbourne, where a game of football is held in the closed streets every Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) and Ash Wednesday. The helicopter lands in the outskirts, and Annabel runs though a park into the town centre, along St John Street, past the monument to Francis Wright, a wealthy local industrialist, and into the open air market. She finds the clue on a Gingerbread Man on one of the market stalls.
4 Before she reads out clue 3, Annabel is given a large Stilton cheese to add to the Bakewell Pudding and the Gingerbread Man!
5 Archaeologist Thomas Bateman excavated four burial mounds (Bateman’s barrow quartet) at Hurdlow. As she flies over the area, Annabel sees two airborne twin-seat microlight aircraft (the put-puts have a flying start). The microlights and the helicopter land, and Annabel runs up to the Gemini Flash 2 Alpha (the high-grade twin) microlight. The pilot has the clue.
6 John Carr designed The Crescent in the spa town of Buxton (Carr’s Bathonian clone). Annabel gets a lift in a red Saab from the landing-place to the Opera House (the local La Scala) in the centre of the town and finds a performance underway (a Donizetti foretaste). She runs onstage and, ignoring the singers (disregard the bel canto), finds the clue among the props (probe the props for papers).
7 The Cat & Fiddle (hey-diddle-diddle) pub is on a hill above the River Goyt, which flows into the Errwood Reservoir (the expanded Goyt). Racing against the clock, Annabel lands, runs to a waiting sailing dinghy (floating pram) and is taken to the treasure, a toy duck floating on the lake (bathtime favourite, duck = not much of a score).





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