The Kings Head

I was born in Bethnal Green, London but my parents inherited the Kings Head and moved to the Essex coast when I was about two years old. It is a curious old place. The Long Room, the red brick section facing away in this picture, is an old grain store overlooking the quay. It is believed to be fifteenth century. The wooden shiplap part of the house is probably Victorian. 
My Dad was an artist and a great player and inventor of games. On the facing section of the roof he made up a game which is a variation on "fives". You had to lob a rubber ball up onto the roof and the other player had to catch it then throw it up again. If you failed to make a catch you lost a point. The main trick was to bounce it off the side of the dormer windows so it shot back the other way and fooled your opponent. It eventually came to an end when we knocked off a roof tile or two.