30 Minute History Street Challenge | Hitchin

30 Minute History Street Challenge | Hitchin
A full set of rules can be found at the bottom of this page, should you wish to do a history street challenge.
This is my third history street challenge video with Stephen, as we embark upon a 30 minute street challenge around the market town of Hitchin. We each go our separate ways to discover the oldest datable object or event hidden within the town.
Who will win? Me or Stephen? What will we discover? Watch both videos to find out. This was great fun and we are planning many more history street challenges.

Stephen’s Hitchin video:    • Hitchin Hertfordshire History Street ...  
Stephen and Yhana’s Channel:    / stephenandyhana  

▬ Contents of this video ▬
0:00 – Intro
1:12 - The full challenge
19:28 – End credits
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History Street Challenge Rules
This is a challenge for two or three people to enjoy. In undertaking a history street challenge competitors can either start and finish in the same location or arrange to start and end at different locations.

The idea is to search the streets for hidden dates relating to an object/building or from a dated event from history. These dates can either be written on buildings, on foundation plaques, blue plaques, fountains, tops of drain pipes, lamp posts, or other items of street furniture. Statues also contain dates on their attached plaques, but it’s the date of the installation and not the date of the person in the statue that is counted. If the blue plaque states a person lived there, then the early date is used. If the exact date can’t be determined and there is a date range; then the later date and not the earlier which is used. Remember to photograph each date to confirm it and to ensure that the date was within the rules. Dates that just give a century (e.g. 17th century) don’t count as they are not specific.

Note: castles, castle grounds, medieval churches, ancient monuments or walls, cemeteries and museum items shouldn’t be included, as this would just be too easy to find that early date. Be sure to point out other interesting features around the streets including gold postal boxes, decorative architecture or something else to keep viewers interested in the challenge.

Local rules can be applied; whereupon a known local landmarks or historic buildings can also be excluded or perhaps these could be used as start/end locations. A coin toss or previous winner can decide upon who has first choice as to which direction they go. If you know that other people have visited a certain town or city, perhaps you have seen their video, then try and start/end in a different place to cover new ground and hopefully discover new dates hidden in our streets.

30 minutes is a reasonable time to cover smaller areas, but times can be varied if necessary, but note that shorter times could add more drama to the challenge! At the end of the challenge, the contestants discuss the number of dates found to ascertain who has discovered the oldest date without revealing what was found so as not to spoil the video for the viewer.

There must be something to play for, so the loser buys lunch, a round of drinks or something else to give the challenge an extra element of fun. This would be agreed in advance. Please don’t cheat and use Google Earth to scout the location beforehand and enjoy your challenge.

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