A £5,000 jewel has been buried in Lancashire and you can help to find it. Emma Mayoh reports.
IT made for an unlikely national obsession. An 18-carat gold, jewel encrusted hare was buried somewhere in Britain. All the public had to do was solve the fiendishly complicated clues to its secret location that came wrapped up in a lavishly illustrated children’s story.
Kit Williams sparked one of the country’s biggest treasure hunts with his book Masquerade, which sold millions of copies across the world in the late 1970s. The book contained clues in paintings and verse that led ultimately to the physical location of the hare.
Inspired by the literary phenomenon – and hoping to generate a similar stir – a group of Lancastrians have organised their own treasure hunt for a £5,000 jewelled butterfly. Steve Laurence and artist Matthew Waite, with support from Down by the Riverside Festival organiser, Mark Gorst, have concocted an intriguing treasure hunt that will takes people to different locations around the county.
‘It’s all places that would be great for people to visit for the day,’ said Steve, who runs community interest company BlocRoc. ‘You could probably cover the locations in a day, if you knew them in advance.
This story is from the May 2017 edition of Lancashire Life.
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