| Notes |
| 1 |
St Milburga founded the abbey/priory at Much Wenlock. In the
half-timbered Guildhall (with butter market on the ground floor), Annabel searches
for jars of chutney at a Women’s Institute market. The clue was behind one of
the jars. |
| 2 |
Beyond Abraham Darby’s Iron Bridge (Darby’s revolutionary
spanner), is Blists Hill open-air industrial museum. There are some blast furnaces
here and an iron foundry along the High Street. Annabel finds a sand-casting
mould with ‘Treasure Hunt’ on it, and the clue is inside. |
| 3 |
Nearby is Coalport Museum, home of fine china. A saggar is
a clay box in which fragile wares are put for firing, and Rose and Indian Tree
are patterns on Coalport china. In the workshops where hand painters (petal
painters) are painting the designs on the various pieces of china, Annabel looks
for a Willow Pattern plate (a piece of willow) and finds the clue on its base. |
| 4 |
Near Lilleshall Hall, former home of the Duke of Sutherland
(Graham Sutherland was a painter, Joan Sutherland was an opera singer), is Lilleshall
Hall National Sports Centre. The contestants tell Annabel to avoid the gymnasium
(avoid homophonic Jim’s bars: gym sounds like Jim) parallel bars and vaulting
horses, and to go to the rings. Spotting the clue on the left hand ring, Annabel
has to climb a short ladder, grasp the rings, retrieve the clue and drop on
to the sponge mat. |
| 5 |
Annabel flies to Weston Park (Weston Super Mare = Somerset’s
super seaside) and enters the library (haven for bibliolaters). The Earl of
Bradford helps her to find a book – a rare 1663 Lady Wilbraham’s copy of a translation
of Palladio’s first book of architecture (a lady’s penchant for Palladio). |
