When Annie Walker won a Perfect Landlady competition in 1969 with a trip to Majorca as the prize, Jack refused to go because of a fear of flying. Annie went, reluctantly, with Ena Sharples, and there met old brewery friend Douglas Cresswell who asked the Walkers to move permanently to the island and run a bar there. There was a problem however as Ena misinterpreted Douglas and Annie’s relationship and word leaked back to Jack that his wife had found a “gentleman friend”. Annie soon put Jack right and the Walkers accepted the offer. All were satisfied until Newton & Ridley Chairman Sir Hubert Ridley read a memo about the plan. Having already torn a strip off Douglas earlier in the day for buying land in Sardinia to build another bar, he informed his middle-aged “junior” that the Walkers wer