Whitehall Picture Hunt

Quiz start: Please note the 1.30pm start. We meet at Charing Cross station exit 5.
Quiz finish: Silver Cross pub basement bar in Whitehall.

The name is taken from the enormous royal Palace of Whitehall that used to occupy the area. From the days of Henry VIII until its destruction by fire in 1698, the great Palace of Whitehall was the Sovereign's main London residence. Today, only the name and one building, the Banqueting House, remains.

Picture Hunts are a great new way to get up to speed with slices of London history while sleuthing around the area.

Everyone is presented with partial photos of objects around an area. Your team mission is to find them. Some well known, some well unknown!

What this means is that some backgrounds may have been removed, and you’re only going to be seeing bits of objects. This makes Picture Hunts more interesting and challenging, bringing out the best of your teams detecting skills.

You will also have a map of the area, in this case, Whitehall. It will be sub-divided into four sections, P, Q, R, S. Each photo will come from one of these.

Four players max per team, but the lower number teams get a point per player start from the biggest team.

For example, four teams of one, two, three and four. Four player team, no advantage, (the biggest and theoretically the more knowledge between them, except it doesn't always work like that). Three player team, one point start. Two player team, two point start. One player team, three point start.

Scores are always close and around the 12-15 points mark. How many players do you want in your team? There's a dilemma!

The clipboard holder enters one of the letters to note its area location. Dead simple, right? 90 minutes to do the hunt.

We have the usual prizes of chocolate, including some great new varieties.

There is also an equal prize for the funniest team name judged by Sue, my glamorous assistant. Names win prizes! So there’s everything to play for.

We'll mark up in the Silver Cross pub basement bar in Whitehall. No cheap food here.

Hunts are good fun and the proven experience so far is that members get to know each other better after working in teams as you all have to communicate. Great icebreakers. This is what Meetup is all about. Come and join us.

There is a £7 cash/card charge for this event.

Contact number on the day is 07422334411 if your transport is delayed.

If you can’t make it, please cancel using the “Edit RSVP” button. Your consideration is greatly appreciated.

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