Golden Jubilee Celebrations: Treasure Hunt

The Treasure through the village was combined with a "Gardens Open" afternoon. You could visit the gardens without taking part in the Treasure Hunt, or do the Treasure Hunt and ignore everything in the gardens apart from the clues (a popular option with the youngsters!), or do both (and probably run out of time!).

The pictures below show the crowds gathered at the start ("hunt01" to "hunt04") being given their instructions by a harrassed organiser (see the background of "hunt04"). The other pictures were taken of the hunters starting off ("hunt05" and "hunt06") and in the open gardens. In one garden (see the first picture) the vehicles were spotted all lined up for the Earl Soham Grand Prix - except that the drivers were missing!

One owner was caught in the act of still preparing his garden for visitors ("hunt11"), and another owner had set up a quiet 'get-away-from-it-all' corner to escape the hordes ("hunt13")! It all seemed rather much for one group of participants, who just sat down on a door-step ("hunt14").

The final stage of the hunt was a grass maze, shown with and without people on the next page of photos.

The winning team very generously offered round a share of their prize to all the losers (see second photo, below).

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