Back on the rails

There has been an inn on the edge of Hickling Broad in Norfolk since the mid-1700s. For hundreds of years the place just quietly ticked on, with pints poured and people put up for the night, until in an incident at the Pleasure Boat Inn made the papers. HRH the Duke of Edinburgh was a guest of Lord Cadbury for the annual coot shoot but their usual overnight accommodation, Whiteslea Lodge, was in danger of flooding, causing them to seek a bed elsewhere before their early start.

A young Prince Charles, accompanying his father, had managed to get on the wrong side of the Pleasure Boat Inn’s landlady for having a pillow fight in a bedroom and the press