Fetch Treasure Hunt
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Mar 2020
6:17pm, 2 Mar 2020
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alpenrose
I'm away for a good part of this month and had hoped to do my collection here but I'll have to do it back at home. I saw loads of trees in blossom before I came and I know of quite a few literary things but I won't have a clue about number 10 as I've never heard a podcast ever.
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Mar 2020
6:47pm, 2 Mar 2020
1,537 posts
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beebop
I’m not sure about the next one. It’s a mark where the list thingy said an official benchmark would be, but I can’t say I’m certain - it’s too late to find an alternative, so any opinions welcome. An official Brown Sign was surprisingly hard to find (most of the signs in the city centre are a sedate dark green) so I hopped on the walls to see if there was one for the NRM, and there was. As a bonus, the museum’s Transit-pretending-to-be-a-choo-choo is also shown, taking tourists on a little trip to see the Minster. The next one is a twofer: spirals on the base of the lampposts and the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey in its modern role as a garden ornament. Big garden (Museum Gardens) and a big ornament, but that’s what it is these days - you’ll see it peeping out coyly from behind the very uninteresting benches (no good for January’s list). Date on a building: I was surprised that this was the oldest contemporary date on a building I could find as I trotted round the middle of York: The Bonding Warehouse, 1875. Lots of plaques and so on with much more remote dates, but I liked the Seagull on this one. [112071] All these were taken on February 3rd when I went for a tourist trot looking for all the items on the list, and ended up running ten miles. I’ve missed off the pub with legs. I have pictures of The Black Swan and The Three-Legged Mare. As the latter (also known as The Wonky Donkey, naturally) is named after the local gallows (Dick Turpin et al), I think the bird is the winner. Just need to upload the image... |
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Mar 2020
6:56pm, 2 Mar 2020
1,538 posts
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beebop
So. Many. Mistakes. The date: The pub: Looking up was the first one I posted, way back last month. I think that’s the lot now! Really enjoyed finding them (thanks, Silvershadow), and looking forwards to this month’s now. Can’t remember ever seeing a yellow fire hydrant, though... |
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Mar 2020
7:04pm, 2 Mar 2020
1,539 posts
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beebop
I should have blogged all that, shouldn’t I? I’m pretty sure blogs can be edited. 🙄
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Mar 2020
7:38pm, 2 Mar 2020
8,117 posts
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BaronessBL
beebop - what you are looking for with the fire hydrant is just the H symbol so one of these Here's a useful article about them from the BBC website bbc.co.uk |
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Mar 2020
9:13pm, 2 Mar 2020
1,540 posts
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beebop
Thanks! As lots of other people have said, it’s amazing how much more of your surroundings you take in on a treasure hunt. Can’t remember ever seeing one, but will probably notice loads now. 
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Mar 2020
9:24pm, 2 Mar 2020
16,629 posts
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EvilPixie
I think we should have more treasure hunts!
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Mar 2020
9:30pm, 2 Mar 2020
8,554 posts
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ITG
I sprained my ankle playing on one of those hydrant things when I was 8. It was a really bad sprain and has never quite been right since.
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Mar 2020
10:40pm, 2 Mar 2020
5,727 posts
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Nightjar
Nice tour beebop
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Mar 2020
10:42pm, 2 Mar 2020
5,728 posts
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Nightjar
I was so confused by the icon of York 😂
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