Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on October 20, 2004 at 20:42:30 from 195.93.32.7 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: "The Roaring Donkey" - an investigation. posted by Mike Dennis on October 20, 2004 at 07:54:50:
There, I think, you have me.
It would have been possible, then as now, to go from the banks of the Orwell to Walton-on-Naze without going anywhere near the "Roaring Donkey" - but maybe AR, visiting Walton, for detail for SW, as he may well have done (it is quite a long walk from the Wade to Mill Lane) went to the Royal Hotel for lunch? If so, he would have passed the "Roaring Donkey", as I recall from childhood that the coast road was not made up beyond the King's Cliff Hotel in the late 50's, so no alternative route would have been possible.