Hawk launch
The Mystery of
Stone Manor

Sunday 23rd April

10:30am - 12:30pm

Staunton Country Park, Middle Park Way, Havant, PO9 5HB

Follow the clues to find out who stole the treasure from the Stone Mansion

The date is 23rd April 1919 and Sir Frederick Loftus Fitzwygram is hosting a party at Stone Manor, his mansion at the heart of Staunton Park.

During the party, Sir Frederick finds his study has been broken into! Something has been stolen, but exactly what he cannot tell. 

Lt-Cdr Barnacle Sanders, Leader at 1st Waterlooville Scouts happens to be at the party, and offers the sleuthing powers of his Scout troop. You, as Havant and Waterlooville - now Hawk Scouts have been tasked with finding out what happened. 

You need to discover:

Use the park map to explore the zones

Visit the zones in your allocated order, return to your room in the house to check in after each zone

Each patrol has been given a timeline with zones to visit in order. You should return to the house when you have solved each zone.

As you eliminate each treasure, thief and hiding place, cross them off on your evidence sheet. Work together as a patrol to solve all the clues in your zone in the time allowed. You need to find five pieces of evidence from each zone, to eliminate all but one thief, treasure and hiding place. You may not need to solve all the clues to do this!

Click on each coloured zone and explore the area to solve the clues. Each clue you find will eliminate one piece of evidence. The wrong answer will eliminate the wrong evidence and you will not be able to solve the crime!

When you have explored all three zones and think you have solved the crime you can make your accusations here. All accusations are time-stamped, so fill in the form as soon as you have solved the case.

The first correct accusation will win the sleuthing trophy!

Make your accusation here

Purple zone

Green zone

Orange zone

The Suspects

Miss Norcock

The founder of Girl Guides in Havant in 1913, she is organising a jamboree and wants to offer subsidies to the girls of the workers' families. She is looking for sponsorship from the wealthy scions of Havant and Waterlooville. 

Albert Stallard Esq.

Mr Stallard is a fellmonger and parchment maker who recently inherited the family business after his father's untimely death. He is inexperienced and needs a cash boost to shore up his business. His great grandfather had to file for bankruptcy in 1844 and he doesn’t want to repeat this terrible fate.

Maj. Masterson VC

Recently retired from the Kings Own Lancaster regiment after an illustrious career, the Major is looking to open a hospital for veterans in Waterlooville, similar to the Havant Infectious Diseases Hospital. He will need funds for this noble endeavour, will his army pension be enough?

Lt-Cdr Barnacle Sanders

Lt-Cdr Sanders, who was a personal friend of Robert Baden-Powell, wrote many of the early scouting handbooks. Barnacle (as he was known to Scouts) founded 1st Waterlooville Scouts in 1909 and since then the Scouts have met in a stable at the bottom of Barney's garden, they are fundraising for a new HQ building.

Olga Fitzgeorge Hamilton Lane

An aristocratic socialite with an estate at Glebe Manor, Warblington. Her marriage is in trouble and she is facing an uncertain future as she may have to sell her estate. Lady Fitzgeorge has expensive tastes, and loves to travel and attend balls and parties of the upper classes around the world. She is leaving for Rio de Janeiro in a matter of days on her way to a tour of South America.

Eleanor Blackstock

Eleanor is a Missionary who established the first Baptist church and school in Nicaragua. She despises the opulent waste of the upper classes and is at the party to show how donations from other wealthy English Baptists have funded a school in Nicaragua.

The Loot

Ceremonial dagger

This beautiful jewelled dagger dates from 1539, given to the ancestor of the first owner of Leigh Park William Garrett who bought the land and built the first pleasure gardens and hot houses in 1802.

Bag of bank notes

A bag of cash monies, collected from Sir Frederick's tenants, the bag had £556 in it (£10,000 in today's money)

Diamond ring

This beautiful ring was given to Sir Frederick's grandmother for her Diamond wedding anniversary. The 4 carat stone is flawless and the ring has been valued at £60,000! (over £1m in today's money)

Gold brick

Beautiful, valuable and untraceable. Gold has to be the perfect treasure to steal!

Silver chalice

A stunning example of early Victorian silverware, this heavy solid silver chalice is both beautiful and valuable.

Pearl necklace

Once belonging to Princess Beatrice of Battenburg, this priceless necklace of freshwater pearls is ornate and irreplaceable.

The Hiding place

Morning room

The Morning Room is where a Victorian lady generally began her day.  Usually, it was filled with light bright furnishings, the most important of which was a writing desk. 

Conservatory

The Victorian era conservatory would have been used as both a place to sit in and somewhere to grow plants that couldn’t survive the harsher weather outside. It was the product of English love for gardening and new glass and heating technology. 

Kitchen

A traditional Victorian kitchen would have been large, busy and constantly in use with three or even four large meals every day. The kitchen would be filled with servants doing all the cooking being done on a coal fired range.

Library

A room dedicated solely to housing the private collection of books. With rows of dark wooden shelves and various soft comfy chairs; good for allowing whoever from the family to relax and read in. Victorians were avid readers, so it would have likely been a very well used room too.

Dining room

Victorian dining and dinner parties were opportunities to elevate social class. They were formal affairs and considered the highlight of any social event. It became an elaborate art form that took planning and a great deal of attention to detail.

Billiard room

A Billiard room was a common feature of the upper-class homes  at this time. Often decorated in dark colours, adorned with stag heads and even tiger skin rugs, these rooms conveyed elite masculinity, and were the retreat of the men of the house.