A.O.S.A. 2006 ANNUAL REPORT

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The treasure hunt began at the Meeting House where Susan Potter (Morgan) (1960-67) and Diz Dexter (1960-65) gave out the clues and details of the route to be followed.

There were a number of things to collect, including proof of purchase of a Petch's pork pie, a match box, a piece of chewing gum - and if I recall a Suggitt's ice-cream tub. Other items to be found along the way included a buttercup flower, some ivy leaves, clover, a screw type bottle top and others, which I'm afraid I can't remember.

The route began with the old scholars leaving the Meeting House and Heading onto the High Street to buy a Petch’s pork pie. After this, we walked up past Worthy Pearson’s on to Newton Road passing the old Rosehill Theatre along the way. Quite conveniently, we found our ivy leaves on this corner.

There were various clues to be determined along Newton Road, the first being to find a sign on a particular post. The phone number of a shop that had to be identified followed this.

The instructions told us to turn onto Romany Road where we had to find a house with wind chimes, and the old fire station. Fortuitously we found our buttercup and clover on this road.

Basically, the route from here was round the back of the village and back down by the side of the church, on to Suggitts for an ice cream. On the way we had to identify ‘The Beeches’, which unfortunately we where unable to do. We had assumed that the beeches were some beech trees to be found, but we were wrong in this respect. As it later turned out ‘The Beeches’ were not trees but the name of a house.

We had in the meantime decided to ask some locals if they knew where there might be some beech trees, in their attempts to be helpful we were told that various trees might be beech trees, but they mostly turned out to be conifers and oak trees. We thanked our kind helpers, abandoned the search for a beech tree and carried on up the High Street to Suggitt's to buy ice cream. The Treasure Hunt continued on the other side of the Beck from Suggitt's’s, so we then crossed the road and went over the bridge for a leisurely walk up past the cricket club and onto top field and the cricket pavilion.

The walk along top field was nice, as we looked down on the tennis courts and bottom corner it brought back distant memories from days long gone by. The walk continued down to bottom field and along the Beck, past the houses that have replaced Leven Hall.

We again crossed over the beck then came back by Little Ayton Lane, onto Station Road and a quick nip into the grave yard for an inscription on a tomb (which I am ashamed to say could not be found), and then back to the Meeting House.

Missing some fairly obvious clues along the way meant that we were never going to be the winning team, but that aside we all had a thoroughly enjoyable day. May I take this opportunity to thank the organizers for the excellent work in making the Treasure Hunt and hopefully it will again be repeated next year.

Phil Ramsey

A few scenes from the 2005 Treasure Hunt
Right: Jane Scrimshaw (Wood) teamed with Jan Sinclair (Hall), Jill Wheeler (Rhodes), puzzle about the next clue.
Above: Audrey Davies (Seddon), Christine & Norman Graham with Abdul Irvani lost in thought by the Beck. "Now what was the clue?"	Above: Audrey Davies (Seddon) pictured in front of the 1906 urinal, (which used to be in the Mill Yard wall) opposite Suggitt's to prove the clue had been found.

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