Thanks to all of you who took part in Time Out's Great London Treasure Hunt 2008. Here are the answers to all five hunts, and the extra Grand Prize questions
Riverside west London
1 'The Mother and The Child', 2000
2 Sit here watching the Thames, dreaming of Bondi
3 13
4 A sculpture of two white swans or geese in flight
5 William Hunt Mansions
6 Exactly one mile
7 'Charles Bristow: He Built it'
8 A swan
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Theatrical West End
9 Tip-up seating
10 ‘The world’s greatest artistes have passed and will pass through these doors’
11 Sir Alec Guinness
12 Three, or five if you counted the ones on one knee – we accepted both
13 Harry and Carol Djanogly
14 Augustus Harris
15 ‘The Man who Had all the Luck’
16 Timothy Spall
Money in Docklands
17 1928
18 Bertie’s
19 Commerce
20 ROBT
21 Goldsmiths
22 Sugar, rum, timber and exotic fruits
23 Nelson
24 Delta Wharf
Hedonistic East End
25 Hibiscus
26 Red
27 Parking
28 Red
29 X
30 H
31 EXCITI (we accepted EXCITING)
32 Stars
Literary Fitzrovia
33 Explorer and Navigator
34 Naomi Blake
35 Francisco de Miranda
36 Howard de Wilden Nurses Home
37 Finger Lickin' Records.
38 Four
39 RECTI
40 Hotel night bell
Extra clues
41 Collapsible gates or rolling shutters
42 Green
43 MDCCCIX
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9 comments
Nadia - I'm not a regular at the club either. It's written directly above each turnstile which stand it's for.
Greg,
Even if that were true, the markings there don't give any indication of that, so how are Treasure Hunters (not regulars at the club) supposed to know? From the markings it seems 16 on Putney End and 13 on Hammersmith End
...and 36 should be Howard de Walden, not Wilden.
Nadia - the answer of 13 for the turnstiles is right - of the 16 turnstiles you refer to, only 13 of them are for the Putney End - the other three are for a different stand.
And 2 - daydreaming of Bondi, not dreaming of Bondi
And you got the answer to number 3 wrong too. There are 16 turnstiles on the Putney end, which was the question. Your answer of 13 fits the Hammersmith end. What a load of @#$%
Your answer to 14 is incorrect. The name engraved is AUCUSTUS, not AUGUSTUS.
Also, for 41 didn't you change the clue? So you should also accept 'The shutters to these entrances', shouldn't you?
Can you tell us how many people took part in the Treasure Hunt please and was it more or less than last year. It was great fun to do and a real challenge. Maybe you should do one in December with a Christmas theme?!
I haven't been able to get out and pick up this weeks issue. Can someone post the names of the winners?