The Earl Grey 1978
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| Earl Grey, 1981. Credit Bert Storey |
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| Former Earl Grey, July 2011 |
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| Former Earl Grey, May 2012 |
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| Earl Grey, 1999, boarded up following a fire. Credit Martin Easdown |
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| Date unknown |
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| Earl Grey, undated. Credit Steve Schmid (from http://www.dover-kent.com/Earl-Grey-Folkestone.html) |
James Goode 1852 1854
W. Cole 1892 1892
Kentish Chronicle 6-12-1836
Death: Nov. 30, at Hythe, Mrs. Earl, wife of Mr. Earl, of the Earl Grey public house, aged 55 years, respected and lamented by all who knew her.
Canterbury Weekly Journal 10-12-1836
Death: November 30th Mrs Earl, wife of Mr. Earl, of the Earl Grey public house in her 55th year
Dover Chronicle
14-1-1843
Mr. Major, of the Earl Grey, High Street, was on Sunday last, the 8th instant, robbed of £21 in money and a watch. It is supposed that a lodger of his, who was employed on the railroad, is the person who committed it, as he decamped on Sunday evening, and, from information given by the driver of the coach to Ashford, it seems probable that London is his destination. We have since heard that he has been taken in London by Mr. Major, who followed him to the town, but cannot speak positively.
Maidstone Gazette
4-2-1851, Dover Telegraph 8-2-1851
Mr. Major, landlord of the Earl Grey, High Street, was sent for by the Mayor, to inform him that he had received a report from Superintendent Steer for refusing him admittance on Saturday night last. Mr. Major said that he had no-one in his house. The Mayor produced an Act of Parliament, an extract of which he read to Mr. Major, and said that he wished it to be clearly understood that after this notice any person obstructing the police in the due execution of their duty would be dealt with with the utmost severity of the law.
Maidstone Journal
26-7-1853
Wednesday, before W. Kelcey Esq., Mayor, and W. Major Esq.
Sarah Nutley, wife of William Nutley, a labourer, was charged with having stolen, on the 18th inst., two bottles of brandy, the property of James Goode, of the Earl Grey, in this town.
The prisoner was detected with the stolen articles in her possession (having secreted them under her clothes), which she was removing from a field in which they had been temporarily placed, being intended for the bodily refreshment of The Druids on the day after the prisoner stole them.
In defence, the prisoner asserted she did not mean to steal them, although she admitted stealing them.
Committed
for trial to Canterbury Quarter Sessions.
Canterbury Journal
22-10-1853
East Kent Quarter Sessions: Before J.B. Wildman Esq.
Sarah Nutley, for having, on the 18th July, stolen two bottles of brandy, value 13s., the property of James Goode, of Folkestone. Mr. Horn appeared for the prisoner.
The prosecutor, landlord of the Earl Grey, Folkestone, had two bottles of brandy in a garden near the Black Bull. The garden gate was locked. He missed the liquor about an hour after he had placed it there. Could swear to the bottles produced.
In cross-examination, it came out that they were placed there by prosecutor in some grass just inside the fence. The house belonging to the garden was empty. Having missed them on his return, he searched, and discovered them some distance from where they had been previously placed. Witness then proceeded to Folkestone for a constable, but none being at liberty he returned, and, in company with another man, watched the house. In the course of a short time, the prisoner came and took them from the ground, when they ran out of the house, and charged her with the theft. She said she did not know to whom they belonged, and that was the first time she had seen them. She was some days afterwards taken into custody.
The constable who apprehended her deposed that she went into the garden for some spearmint, when she discovered the bottles. She lived in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Horn argued, on behalf of the prisoner, that she took them without any felonious intention, as she no sooner found them than she was seized and accused of robbery. It would be the first act of the most scrupulous to take them up from such a place. As proof that she could not have removed them, she was occupied the whole of the afternoon at Folkestone, when, in fact, it was only half past five when prosecutor discovered them removed from where they were placed. The prosecutor no sooner saw the prisoner touch the bottles than he impetuously came to the conclusion that she meant to convert them to her own use, although there was a party of boys playing cricket in a meadow behind the house, and there being a path and gate leading to the garden.
The learned counsel called the prisoner`s daughter-in-law, who positively stated that her mother did not return from Folkestone till night; that her mother went to the garden for some spearmint while she and another woman were in the meadow; and when she came up to the front of the house she saw Mr. Goode with the bottles in his hands, accusing her mother of the theft; that the man who was with Mr. Goode suggested to him the propriety of putting them down again and waiting a little longer, when he replied “I have one prisoner – that is enough.”
A neighbour was called, who spoke in high terms of commendation of the prisoner, and related a conversation he had had with prosecutor`s father, who observed that he suspected who was the thief, and mentioned the name of a person who was in his employ.
Another stepped forward, and said he had known the prisoner and her husband for a period of eighteen years, and he believed there was not a more honest couple in the kingdom.
Not Guilty; which was received with marks of approbation.
Maidstone Journal
25-10-1853
Friday, before J.B. Wildman Esq.
Sarah Nutley (charged with) stealing two bottles of brandy, value 13s., the property of Jas. Goode, on the 18th July, at Folkestone. Mr. Horn defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor keeps the Earl Grey, Folkestone, and had two bottles of brandy in a garden, concealed under some nettles. He missed them about an hour after he had placed them there. The bottles were found about a rod from where the prosecutor had hid them. The prosecutor watched and saw the prisoner come to the place, and take the bottles up. In answer to him, she said she did not know the bottles were there, or who placed them there. When taken into custody the prisoner said she went to pick some spearmint and found the bottles, which she was going to take to Mrs. Mercer.
Witnesses were called to prove that the prisoner was not the person who placed the bottles in the second place. Witnesses were also called to character. One of the witnesses said that the prosecutor told him he had lost two bottles of brandy, and that his father suspected the man who was with him, and who saw the bottles placed in the garden.
Not Guilty. The verdict received some slight applause.
Southeastern Gazette
25-10-1853
East Kent Quarter Sessions, Friday, before J.B. Wildman Esq.
Sarah Nutley was charged with stealing two bottles of brandy, the property of Jas. Goode, of Folkestone.
The prosecutor gave his evidence as to finding them upon her, corroborated in some measure by a witness named Waite. It appears that he placed the bottles in an exposed place in a garden, adjoining an empty house, of which he had the loan to stow his things in, he being caterer for the Order of Druids, who held their festival in a meadow, also adjoining, on the 19th July. Prosecutor had missed the bottles from where he had placed them, and found them placed a rod distant. Prisoner, while gathering spearmint, found them, and was in the act of taking them to Mr. Mercer, the owner of the premises, when she was surprised by him and charged with feloniously taking them.
Mr. Horn made an eloquent appeal to the jury on her behalf, contending that a felonious intent had not been proved, that it was a case of finding property in a deserted place, and before she could make enquiries for the owner she was pounced upon by the prosecutor, and prevented so doing. He called her daughter-in-law to prove that prisoner was not out of her sight from one to eight that evening, thus proving the impossibility of her removing the bottles. Mr. H. Tite gave her a most excellent character.
The Chairman summed up, and the jury without any consultation returned their verdict of Not Guilty, which was received with marks of approbation. Prisoner bears an unimpeachable character for honesty and sobriety in the neighbourhood. The defence was conducted by T.H.G. Snowden Esq., of Ramsgate.
Dover Chronicle
29-10-1853
East Kent Quarter Sessions: Before J.B. Wildman Esq.
Sarah Nutley, for having, on the 18th July, stolen two bottles of brandy, value 13s., the property of James Goode, of Folkestone. Mr. Horn appeared for the prisoner.
The prosecutor, landlord of the Earl Grey, Folkestone, had two bottles of brandy in a garden near the Black Bull. The garden gate was locked. He missed the liquor about an hour after he had placed it there. Could swear to the bottles produced.
In cross-examination, it came out that they were placed there by prosecutor in some grass just inside the fence. The house belonging to the garden was empty. Having missed them on his return, he searched, and discovered them some distance from where they had been previously placed. Witness then proceeded to Folkestone for a constable, but none being at liberty he returned, and, in company with another man, watched the house. In the course of a short time, the prisoner came and took them from the ground, when they ran out of the house, and charged her with the theft. She said she did not know to whom they belonged, and that was the first time she had seen them. She was some days afterwards taken into custody.
The constable who apprehended her deposed that she went into the garden for some spearmint, when she discovered the bottles. She lived in the neighbourhood.
Mr.
Horn argued, on behalf of the prisoner, that she took them without any
felonious intention, as she no sooner found them than she was seized and
accused of robbery. It would be the first act of the most scrupulous to take
them up from such a place. As proof that she could not have removed them, she
was occupied the whole of the afternoon at Folkestone, when, in fact, it was
only half past five when prosecutor discovered them removed from where they
were placed. The prosecutor no sooner saw the prisoner touch the bottles than
he impetuously came to the conclusion that she meant to convert them to her own
use, although there was a party of boys playing cricket in a meadow behind the
house, and there being a path and gate leading to the garden.
The learned counsel called the prisoner`s daughter-in-law, who positively stated that her mother did not return from Folkestone till night; that her mother went to the garden for some spearmint while she and another woman were in the meadow; and when she came up to the front of the house she saw Mr. Goode with the bottles in his hands, accusing her mother of the theft; that the man who was with Mr. Goode suggested to him the propriety of putting them down again and waiting a little longer, when he replied “I have one prisoner – that is enough.”
A neighbour was called, who spoke in high terms of commendation of the prisoner, and related a conversation he had had with prosecutor`s father, who observed that he suspected who was the thief, and mentioned the name of a person who was in his employ.
Another stepped forward, and said he had known the prisoner and her husband for a period of eighteen years, and he believed there was not a more honest couple in the kingdom.
Not Guilty; which was received with marks of approbation.
Southeastern Gazette
24-1-1854
Advertisement: Public house to let. An excellent house to let, in the improving town of Folkestone, now doing a good business. The advertiser is obliged to leave the house on account of the ill-health of his wife. Coming in about £160.
For further particulars apply to Mr. Good, Earl Grey, High Street, Folkestone.
Dover Chronicle
4-3-1854
Petty
Sessions: The licence granted to James Goode, of the Earl Grey, High Street,
has been transferred to John Harrison. The licence granted to Charles
Pritchard, of the Marquis of Granby, High Street, has been transferred to John
Kennett.
Kentish Gazette 14-10-1856
At the magisterial sitting on Wednesday Robert
Aldridge was charged with a violent assault on one of the Swiss Legion. Jt
appeared that plaintiff dropped into the Earl Grey, where there were other
soldiers and civilians, among whom a fight took place, when he received two
black eyes and a severe cut at the back of his head; but the evidence failing
to show defendant was the aggressor, the case was dismissed.
Folkestone Chronicle 25-7-1857
Yesterday
afternoon the wife of Mr. Harris, tailor, in High Street, hearing the shop bell
ring, went up and found a lady in the shop, who asked her if she missed
anything, as a man had just quitted the shop in great haste, and appearing to
have a bundle of cloth under his coat. She searched the counter, and found that
a new pair of trousers were missing. Having been informed by the lady that the
man had gone into the Earl Grey public house, she went to look for him, and
without hesitation seized him, and proceeded to search him, and found concealed
under his coat the missing pair of trousers. She immediately collared the
thief, and took him to the police station, opposite her husband`s shop. The
policeman on duty having searched him found a cap concealed on his person,
which was afterwards identified as having been stolen from the Red Cow public
house, which was broken into and robbed on the previous night. Too much praise
cannot be given to Mrs. Harris for her resolute conduct on this occasion, as by
this means a clue may arise to ascertain the author of the burglaries which
have for some time been so rife in this neighbourhood.
Kentish Express 28-7-1857
On Friday afternoon the wife of Mr. Harris, tailor in High Street, hearing the shop door-bell ring, went up and found a lady in the shop, who asked her if she missed anything, as a man had just quitted the shop in great haste, and appearing to have a bundle of cloth under his coat. She searched the counter and found that a new pair of trousers were missing. Having been informed by the lady that the man had gone into the Earl Grey public house, she went to look for him, and without hesitation seized him, and proceeded to search him, and found concealed under his coat the missing pair of trousers. She immediately collared the thief and took him to the police station, opposite her husband's shop. The policeman on duty having searched him found a cap concealed on his person, which was afterwards identified as having been stolen from the Red Cow public house, which was broken into and robbed on the previous night. Too much praise cannot be given to Mrs. Harris for her resolute conduct on this occasion, as by this means a clue may arise to ascertain the author of the burglaries which have for some time been so rife in this neighbourhood. It may be added that the parish church was broken into a third time on Sunday night, but the burglars were defeated, the boxes for the receipt of the donations having been emptied on the same evening.
Dover Telegraph 1-8-1857
On
Friday afternoon the wife of Mr. Harris, tailor, in High Street, hearing the
shop bell ring, went up and found a lady in the shop, who asked her if she
missed anything, as a man had just quitted the shop in great haste, and
appearing to have a bundle of cloth under his coat. She searched the counter,
and found that a new pair of trousers were missing. Having been informed by the
lady that the man had gone into the Earl Grey public house, she went to look for
him, and without hesitation seized him, and proceeded to search him, and found
concealed under his coat the missing pair of trousers. She immediately collared
the thief, and took him to the police station, opposite her husband`s shop. The
policeman on duty found a cap concealed on his person, which was afterwards
identified as having been stolen from the Red Cow public house, which was
broken into and robbed on the previous night. Too much praise cannot be given
to Mrs. Harris for her resolute conduct on this occasion, as by this means a
clue may arise to ascertain the author of the burglaries which have for some
time been so rife in this neighbourhood.
Dover Telegraph 4-10-1862, Southeastern Gazette 7-10-1862
Advertisement: Freehold Public House, Folkestone, Kent. Mr. Palmer will sell by auction, on the premises, on Saturday, the 18th October instant, at one p.m., the freehold public house called The Earl Grey, with the ground and premises thereto belonging, situate in High Street, Folkestone, under lease (3 years being unexpired at April next), at £25 per annum.
This desirable property will be sold subject to the approbation of the High Court of Chancery.
Particulars may be had of P.A. Hanrott Esq., solicitor, 15, Bedford Row; Messrs. Dynes and Harvey, 61, Lincoln`s Inn Fields; Messrs. Duncan and Merten, 13, Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London; Messrs. Surrage and Emmerson, Sandwich, Kent; at the Earl Grey, Folkestone; and of the auctioneer, 6, Essex Street, Strand, London.
Kentish Gazette 13-9-1864
Borough Petty Sessions, Wednesday: (Before Captain Kennicott, R.N., and James Tolputt, Esq.)
Henry Bishop, landlord of the Earl Grey, High Street, appeared on a summons, charging him with opening his house at 2 a.m., on the previous Sunday morning.
P.S. Newman proved the case, and defendant was fined 1s. and costs 9s., or in default of payment, 14 days’ imprisonment.
Kentish Gazette 2-3-1869
The following license was applied for on Wednesday and granted: D.R. Taylor, from S. Knight, of the Earl Grey
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