If there ever was a pub in Frinton-on-Sea, the most self-consciously "exclusive" resort in Essex, ... throw open the doors of the Lock and Barrel, an all-new Shepherd Neame establishment.

The Lock and Barrel is situated in Connaught Avenue, a tree-lined shopping street once known as "the Bond Street of the East Coast" in the resort's hey-day of the 1920s and 30s. Standing by traditions ...