Posted by Alan Hakim on April 03, 2007 at 17:42:06 from 212.137.216.146 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: The Roaring Donkey's location posted by Eric Abraham on April 02, 2007 at 12:58:13:
I do agree that reading the description in BS, it is ambiguous whether the Roaring Donkey dyke is east or west of Kendal Dyke. However, although the pub itself has never been there, Martham dyke is clearly shown on my Ordnance Survey map ("Full revision 1920 with later corrections") bought on a family holiday in 1950, as well as on a newer edition bought less than two years ago, and it is indeed east of Kendal Dyke - and the first dyke after Potter.
Wayne Hammond, in his Bibliography, speculates that because the first lot of pictures were destroyed in the wartime bombing, AR didn't have time to do the new endpaper map for BS, so Cape just borrowed the front endpaper from CC and added the Donkey. And now even that seems to have fallen off again.
Godine would never have had the same blocks as Cape. The first US edition of BS was published by Macmillan, and according to Wayne, had "a map by Ransome, Norfolk Broads, Northern Rivers." Does the Godine BS map show the Donkey?