The Armchair Treasure Hunt Club

The Armchair Treasure Hunt Club
Names and Faces

Here are some the Club's members, past and present - names you'll encounter as you pass through our website.

The Team for 2004

	Nick & Mary Ball - Annual Event Organizer Nick has been an active club member for some time and pops up regularly at club events and with Mary organized the Spring Event 2004 and the 2007 Event in Saffron Walden. He recently came a close joint second in the South East part of Shaun Whitehead's Text4Treasure II.
	Ann Hughes - Subeditor & Phil Heydon - Newsletter Compositor email: ann phil Ann, has been our newsletter and website puzzle setter for some time although she previously looked after the newsletter's Bulletin Board feature. Ann set the club Sovereign Hunt Fortuna and the 2002 club hunt A Monkish Plot. With Sandra Young she also wrote 2004 Club Hunt: A Prized Posession. Ann's partner, Phil, took over the composition and assembly of the newsletter editorship in 2004.
	Roger Lintott - Subeditor email: roger Roger edits the Bulletin Board feature of the club newsletter. He has also written hunts for the club newsletter including A Springtime Holiday.
	Nick Perry - Webmaster email: nick Nick is currently the Club webmaster and is the most talented member of the club. At one time he tried to produce a regular feature on wider topics for the newsletter. Nick set the Sovereign Hunt A Shut and Open Case with fellow member Matt Edwards. He can normally be seen waving a camera around at Club Events and also wore a hat and carried an umbrella in the 2004 Annual Event. Nick is an IT Manager for a legal publisher in London.
	Sandra Young - Co-ordinator & Treasurer email: sandra Sparked by winning a coin in Treasure, Sandra is now Club Co-ordinator and Treasurer so basically does all the hard work! Sandra is usually the first point of contact on club matters. Sandra organized the 2001 and 2003 Spring Events and wrote the 2003 Club Pearl Hunt Charlie's Summer Spell. With Ann Hughes, she wrote the 2004 Club Hunt: A Prized Posession. Sandra and husband, John, are landlords of a pub in Herne Bay. John makes out he's not that interested in hunts but is always very competetive when 'dragged along'!

Other Members include:

	Charles Affleck Along with Steven Shipp, Charles runs an independent bespoke treasure hunting service. Together they recently wrote the 2003 club hunt Zee Zummerset Puzzle. Charles's success in hunts can be traced back to the coin he won in Treasure.
	Charles Cunningham email: charles Charles has previously created and edited the newsletter Bulletin Board and Puzzle Pages. Charles has set the Club Hunts Scottish Quest and the unsolved Sovereign Hunt Stepping Stones. Charles has also released a charity hunt: Red Herring. Charles is a Virologist at the University of Glasgow.
	Martin Dennett Martin worked with Paul Harkin to set Alice's Further Adventures in Wonderland, a review of Clockwise, and solved club hunts Nathaniel Ingleby and A King's Ransom. But Martin is equally successful working alone and has solved a number of hunts including coins and a key in Treasure. Martin also worked with Deborah Hatton to organize the 2001 and 2002 Annual Club Event Hunts. He and Deborah also managed to bag the top prize in Shaun Whitehead's first two Questershire hunts. In 2004 Martin managed to crack a couple of major commercial hunts: The Times/Keith Tyson's Cubes Mystery and the Galaxy FM Hunt for Gold. Martin started entering the London based Miglia Quadrato in 2004 and with his team of fellow members Clive Weatherley, Nick Perry, Stephen Parkes and Matt Edwards, has won the competition outright on two occasions. In 2007 they almost scored the first clean sheet in the event's fifty year history.
	Bob Dixon Bob has solved a number of club hunts, including A Pirate's Legacy. In 2003 Bob made a four hour drive from his Guest House in sunny Blackpool - to Stratford upon Avon, where he was pipped at the post for the prize in Text4Treasure, a situation that was recently repeated in Zee Zummerset Puzzle.
	Diane and Rob Farmer Puzzle solvers extraordinaire, Diane won three coins in Treasure and with Rob, recently won the first Forest of Dean Gold Leaf Quest and are pictured, left, with their prize. Image © 2002 GPA / Forest of Dean Tourism
	Paul Harkin Paul set the Club Hunt Alice's Further Adventures in Wonderland, reviewed Brian Souter's Clockwise, solved club hunts Nathaniel Ingleby and A King's Ransom and helped solve commercial hunts The Times/Keith Tyson's Cubes Mystery and the Galaxy FM Hunt for Gold - all with regular collaborator and fellow member Martin Dennett. Collaborating with Brian Souter and Matt Edwards, in 2004 he finally solved Shaun Whitehead's commercial hunt Smugglers' Gold. He has, of course, solved a number of hunts entirely on his own including coins in Treasure, and the first Club Hunt - A Timeless Moral.
	Deborah Hatton Deborah's Treasure hunting success began winning coins in Treasure. She went on to win both the herring and final prize in the Club Hunt Alice's Further Adventures in Wonderland. Her team win at the 2000 Club Event inspired her to organizing (with Martin Dennett) two legendary events in her home town of Stony Stratford in 2001 and 2002. She and Martin also colaborated to win the first two Questershire hunts.
	Sally Hickling Sally formerly looked after the club website.
	Stephen Parkes Stephen is a former newsletter editor and club webmaster. He has won a number of hunts and herrings including a key in Treasure and the Clockwise herring, and also set the hunt A Fairy Story.
	Steven Shipp Like many of us, Steven's hunting interests began with Masquerade and first tasted success with the Milk Marketing Board's 1981 hunt. Along with Charles Affleck, Steven runs an independent bespoke treasure hunting service. Together they wrote the 2003 club hunt Zee Zummerset Puzzle. Steven is an artist and book dealer based in Exeter.
	Mike Smith Mikey is fast becoming a hunt-solving veteran having unearthed The Lost Queen, the Unnamed hunt and winning - with his team - the 2002 Annual Event. Mikey has also gained a runners-up prize in Shaun Whitehead's Questershire and has even set a hunt for his work colleagues. His hunt writing skills have been applied to the 2003 club hunt Nacremancer. Mikey has a website too.
	Brian Souter Brian was, for many years until the end of 2003, the newsletter Editor and has set the Club Hunts: Clockwise, the Sovereign Hunt The Lost Queen, The Pearl Hunts Anniversary Treasure and Gold Pearl Hunt. Brian's first hunting success came in the form of the Diluculum Dagger in the Sunday Times promotion of Treasure. Brian subsequently won both red herrings in Dragonslayer. Brian Works for the Computer Services Department of the University of York
	Clive Weatherley Clive is a regular contributor to the newsletter and set the club's official Letterbox on Dartmoor. He began a winning streak a few years ago, and it continues today. His successes include being on the winning team of the 2003 Spring Event; claiming victories in both Text4Treasure I and II; and solving Mike Smith and Jane Child’s Unnamed Hunt in 2004. Clive is a creative copy writer based in Bishop's Stortford.
	Shaun and Alison Whitehead email: shaun Shaun used to edit the newsletter and more recently concentrated on just the Letterbox. He has set a number of club hunts, including Nathaniel Ingleby. Working both alone and with his wife, Alison, Shaun has solved a large number of hunts including Flight of Fantasy and Martyn Lambourne's epic Quest. He has arranged a number of club events including to 2002 Spring Event in York, the 2003 September Event in Melton Mowbray and the Masquerade tribute club evnt in Ampthill. Shaun is the author of , amongst others, Smugglers' Gold, Questershire and his innovative Text4Treasure series. Shaun has given up his work at the University of Leicester (where Alison still works) to dedicate his time to other creative engineering activities - including hunts and TV appearences!

Former Members

Although no longer members of the club, the following names appear throughout this site as they have played a significant part in the club's history.

Dan James

Dan James (a nom de plume) is an artist, author and the club founder. Dan has written and illustrated a number of commercial and club hunts including Treasure and Helium Dream.

Mark Parry

Mark regularly contributed his Parry's Place to the club newsletter and devised the Club Hunt A Pirate's Legacy. Mark co-founded the Quest4Treasure website and forum.

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