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Thanks to everyone who turned up. Matlock was quite a challenge from a planning point of view (quite apart from the hills). There were basically three ways to go from the Start - East, West or South - and I tried to position and score controls so that there was no particular advantage to any direction. I probably weighted it towards the south, trying to sugar the pill of what I considered the most boring route. (Those who went south are asterisked above). There is a fair spread, so it wasn't necessary to go this way to pick up the points
When I planned this event, I thought that at least there was no chance of the controls going missing. I reckoned without a gate out of the western end of the car park being padlocked and an adhesive label disappearing from the grit box at no.20 (I accepted everybody's 'E' although it said something beginning with 'P' 2 weeks earlier!).
People didn't seem to mind having to look a bit harder for clues; my preference as a competitor is for a bit of variety. Control 39 caused most problems. I had 'Thornbury' as the house to the West of the grit box, but there were as many 'S's for Stoney Rook as 'T's, so I accepted both. Viv was most fortunate because she put 'Sunny' down which no-one had, but I allowed her as an 'S' anyway. Also fortunate was John Hawkins who had 'N' for noticeboard as the object with the year 2000 on at 19. I suppose that there must have been a noticeboard with the year 2000 on nearby, but everyone else spotted the 6 foot long 2000 emblazoned on the back of the bench or seat.
I felt a bit sorry for those who approached No. 14 from the north. The huge notice with the yoga expert on was not so noticeable as from the south, and at least one person found out the answer by looking in a window and reading the answer off a certificate hung on the wall. It wasn't meant to be that difficult!
It was important to match description to control. Rob Shooter approached No. 58, the Heights of Abraham lodge, where he should have been counting chimney pots, looking for the price of a family ticket (No. 59). The ticket attendant took pity on him and asked what he was looking for. 'What's the price of a family ticket?' asked Rob. 'But we don't do family tickets!' was the confused reply.
Mike Napier seemed to have managed a phenomenal 33 correct controls - as well as 6 incorrect ones - but, following a shameful confession, he has been rumbled and demoted a couple of places! Perhaps I should have smelled a rat (or an owl) when he guessed a weather vane bird might be 'C' for cock.
Thanks finally to James Allen for producing and revising the map and for overprinting the controls.
Next Street event in the series is Rob Shooter's Ilkeston event on 3rd June.
Graham Johnson
Position Name Points Total Penalty Total Score No. of correct controls Incorrect Controls 1. Nick Barrable* 980 - 980 31 2. Andy Jackson 850 - 850 26 3. John Hawkins 820 80 740 27 4. Mike Napier* 870 140 730 29 5. Ben Chesters 620 - 620 26 6. Rob Palmer 620 - 620 26 7. Andy Mackervoy* 600 - 600 21 8. Chris Poole 590 - 590 24 25 9. John Hopper 590 - 590 20 25 10. Mick Lucking 580 - 580 21 11. Rex Bleakman 580 - 580 23 12. Mike Godfree 580 - 580 23 13. Paul Robinson 580 - 580 20 27 14. Colin Olivant* 600 20 580 22 15. Matt Dickinson* 600 20 580 22 16. David Olivant 560 - 580 18 17. John Dalton 560 - 560 17 50 18. Dave Chaffey 640 80 560 23 11,22,24,26 19. Mike Gardner 530 - 530 21 20. James Allen* 520 - 520 18 48 21. Viv Macdonald 500 - 500 18 22. Rachel Davis 480 - 480 17 18 23. Brian Denness 480 - 480 20 24. Ranald Macdonald500 20 480 17 25. Liz Godfree 470 - 470 19 26 26. Helen Finlayson 460 - 460 17 27. Robert Shooter* 500 40 460 18 22 28. Doug Dickinson 450 20 430 18 29. Malc Spencer 420 - 420 17 50 30. A-M Duckworth 410 - 410 16 31. Paul Wright 410 - 410 17 32. M Mackervoy 410 - 410 16 33. Angela Lucking 320 - 320 15 21 34. Tracey Grant 290 - 290 16 21,38 35. Hilary Kitson 280 - 280 10 36. Pauline Olivant 220 - 220 11 37. S, T & C Wright 150 - 150 8 38. Margaret Keeling140 - 140 7 Back up to contents