Kent – Canterbury

Episode 8.2
17 December 2002




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Contestants Carol and David Richardson, Roman re-enactors from Portsmouth
Start Position Hovering above Canterbury
Clue 1 For Kent’s pearl use the Crab & Winkle line. Missed tea on board? Sounds like the world is your aphrodisiac! 1
Leads to Whitstable harbour – in a bucket of oysters on fishing boat ‘Misty’
Clue 2 If Mrs Merton made Caroline common, would you go wild? With Adonis’s killer go out on a limb! 2
Leads to Herne Common – on tree in wild boar pen in Wildwood wildlife park
Clue 3 Over the maypole to the quixotic giant, put the Bin over your head and hop above the Twin Peaks. 3
Leads to Sarre Windmill – in grain bin
Clue 4 Bond’s gadget man meets you and ex at Waterloo East. Off to Orient? It beats flying! 4
Leads to Quex Park – under fan on table in oriental room
Clue 5 Among the horns one notices the bongos playing.
Leads to Quex Park – under sign beside Bongo Antelope display in Gallery 1
Result The contestants ran out of time on the final clue.


Notes
1 The ‘Crab & Winkle Line’ is a dismantled railway that ran from Canterbury to Whitstable.
2 Caroline Ahearne played TV’s Mrs Merton; Adonis was killed by a wild boar.
3 ‘Hop’ refers to hopper, and ‘Twin Peaks’ to two piles of grain in the bin.
4 The Waterloo bell tower is in the grounds of Quex Park.