An outside facing view of the Mistley Thorn restaurant and hotel in Mistley, Essex

An outside facing view of the Mistley Thorn restaurant and hotel in Mistley, Essex. The photographer is standing outside the hotel looking north east towards the front of the restaurant. A large water fountain with a white swan statue in the middle is in the foreground. The River Stour and the far riverbank are in the background. This is Slide 24 of a series when Henry P. Bird undertook a cruise on the spritsail barge Reminder (1929). According to the mount, the hotel was called the Mistley Spa by the photographer and this photograph was taken circa September 1983.