I have always wanted to see what survives of the church at Mistley – the two neoclassical towers which were added at either end of eighteenth-century church by Robert Adam at the behest of Robert Rigby, Paymaster General and proprietor of Mistley Hall, who planned to turn Mistley Thorn into a spa town:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Nick Coker’s parents (Peter of course RA) lived round the corner and I think Nick briefly lived in one of those towers.
Yes, I thought so, with the strong smell of malt. Charles
And Constable’s father’s sea-going ship The Telegraph was based at Mistley – among other things bringing night soil back from London.