E: 30/08 (Noon) Win £250 with the Olde English Treasure Hunt (Help Please!!)

Shobby

That's a good idea...I've hunting around pear tree pubs!

I'll have a look around the Castle Combe idea, I'm wondering if the computer board thing is a green board somewhere, mother boards in computers are usually green........

phsychoduck

I was looking for place names with comb and brush last night trying to tie them in, I never thought of Castle Combe, which has a race circuit (computer) and in their history has some highlights http://www.castlecombecircuit.co.uk/circuit/ with an entry for 1953 as follows

1953 Ken Wharton wins in BRM V16

Now going to follow from here!!

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wharton was born in Smethwick, now to tie that in with things onward

angelesque

Castle Combe - Castle Combe Circuit (circuit board = computer board)

Highlight of 1953 - Ken Wharton

His birthplace is Smethwick...

itsinthemail

Some great working out here, but I'm not sure 1953 fits with Olde EnglishTreasure Hunt

phsychoduck

More thinking out loud, Smethwick could lead to John Smethwick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smethwick who held the copyrights to Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Love's Labor's Lost. Which in my desperation to get to the finish I decided Love was the best festive gift, and Labor could equate to industrious!

I think thats down the wrong track but any further thoughts?

itsinthemail

Not sure if this helps or not
Charles Babbage originated the concept of a programmable computer here
In 1853 he wrote On the Statistics of Lighthouses (Highlight 53?)
Place of birth was disputed, but now believed that Babbage was born in the family home of 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London. here
His wife died in Worcester

phsychoduck

Coversnail wrote: »

Think I might have solved another little bit at last!!

The Pear Tree Inn "a tree inn without" might be:

http://www.maypolehotels.com/peartreeinn/

And on that site there is a link of Things to Do, "where one thing to do"

http://www.maypolehotels.com/peartreeinn/things_to_do.html

Which has a link to Castle Combe , "straighten hair out"

This leads to this site:

http://www.cotswolds.info/places/castle-combe.shtml

Haven't got time for a good rummage around though, will have a go later if no-one can advance from here!

I just went to check on this and I reckon that ties into place, the "without" bit being that the Pear Tree Inn, is in Whitley, which is in the parish of Melksham Without http://www.visionwebsites.co.uk/Contents/Text/Index.asp?SiteId=225&SiteExtra=11017932&TopNavId=480&NavSideId=4932

bwoohaha

Coversnail wrote: »

The fruity coat could be Worcester's coat of arms which has pears on it?

The motto "Civitas in Bello et Pace Fidelis" means "The City faithful in war and in peace"

So I've been looking for things about "war and peace" and I found "Psychological Factors of Peace and War: Edited by T. H. Pear. New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1950. 262 pp." though I think I'm getting completely lost here...

But the city was loyal to the Stuarts in the Civil War and after the Battle of Worcester "Charles II escaped after many adventures, including one famous incident where he hid from a Parliamentarian patrol in an oak tree in the grounds of Boscobel House"

hope that helps

missielizzie

i think Castle Coombe might be in the right direction ... the race circuit there used to be an RAF airfield which would fit with 'flew there', but not sure who!!!!

The only other flying reference round there is the flying monk of Malmesbury Abbey, but can't see how that fits either!!!

reniannen

phsychoduck wrote: »

More thinking out loud, Smethwick could lead to John Smethwick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smethwick who held the copyrights to Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Love's Labor's Lost. Which in my desperation to get to the finish I decided Love was the best festive gift, and Labor could equate to industrious!

I think thats down the wrong track but any further thoughts?

you could actually be on the right track, although not for the right reason!

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/labours.html

The title-page of the first quarto states that Love’s Labour’s Lost was ‘presented before her Highnes this last Christmas’. The play may have been performed at court during the Christmas season 1597-1598 or even earlier.

presented = gift?

and I suppose Shakespeare takes us back on to the Olde English theme.


or - the word 'heritage' is significant and there's something festive related on this site http://www.smethwick-heritage.co.uk/ ? which I can't currently see.