The blog editor rarely writes anything himself but has written this item especially for the October newsletter. You can see it first here.
A few pictures to start with. Note how the radio car has changed over the years and see if you can recognise all the locations
The BBC Radio Norfolk
van will not be visiting Old Buckenham so often in the future. The popular
“Treasure Quest” programme came to a tearful end on Sunday 10 September, a week
later that the other local radio favourites that had been cut by the BBC bosses
the week before.
Old Buckenham has had its part to play in the programme since it started some fifteen years ago. It provided locations for the Treasure Quest to visit after the listening audience had solved the devious clues that would lead them all around Norfolk. The sites that the TQ team had visited in the past included:
Road
sign at junction of Fen Street with the B1077 at Puddledock,
The
Gamekeeper pub,
The
notice board outside the village shop,
The
War Memorial,
The
Old School on the Green,
The
Church Rooms a couple of times including a New Year’s Day walk,
All
Saints Church at least twice as well,
The
Almshouses,
The
Windmill,
The
Village Hall for the Produce Show at least twice,
The
Airfield for the Air Show a couple of times too,
The
Askew Agricultural Museum that was at Scales Farm,
Phin’s
house in Fen Street for Open Gardens
and
some others I’ve possibly forgotten.
I
will not now be leaving my home on a Sunday morning anymore to rendezvous with the
radio car and knowing that on many occasions I was the only person in the
village to know that they were coming. Other times there was a lot of secret
arranging beforehand so that the visits could go on unhindered.
I
will really miss the program and all those involved in making it happen...
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