Thanks And Acknowledgements

My thanks go to Kent Libraries and Archives - Folkestone Library and also to the archive of the Folkestone Herald. For articles from the Folkestone Observer, my thanks go to the Kent Messenger Group. Southeastern Gazette articles are from UKPress Online, and Kentish Gazette articles are from the British Newspaper Archive. See links below.

Paul Skelton`s great site for research on pubs in Kent is also linked

Other sites which may be of interest are the Folkestone and District Local History Society, the Kent History Forum, Christine Warren`s fascinating site, Folkestone Then And Now, and Step Short, where I originally found the photo of the bomb-damaged former Langton`s Brewery, links also below.


Welcome

Welcome to Even More Tales From The Tap Room.

Core dates and information on licensees tenure are taken from Martin Easdown and Eamonn Rooney`s two fine books on the pubs of Folkestone, Tales From The Tap Room and More Tales From The Tap Room - unfortunately now out of print. Dates for the tenure of licensees are taken from the very limited editions called Bastions Of The Bar and More Bastions Of The Bar, which were given free to very early purchasers of the books.

Easiest navigation of the site is by clicking on the PAGE of the pub you are looking for and following the links to the different sub-pages. Using the LABELS is, I`m afraid, not at all user-friendly.

Contrast Note

Whilst the above-mentioned books and supplements represent an enormous amount of research over many years, it is almost inevitable that further research will throw up some differences to the published works. Where these have been found, I have noted them. This is not intended to detract in any way from previous research, but merely to indicate that (possible) new information is available.

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If you have any anecdotes or photographs of the pubs featured in this Blog and would like to share them, please mail me at: jancpedersen@googlemail.com.

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Saturday 31 December 2011

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31st December, 2011: Folkestone Observer Reports for 1865 Added

Wednesday 28 December 2011

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28th December, 2011: Folkestone Observer Reports for 1864 Added

Saturday 24 December 2011

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24th December, 2011: Folkestone Observer Reports for 1863 Added

Wednesday 21 December 2011

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21st December, 2011: Folkestone Observer Reports for 1862 Added

Saturday 17 December 2011

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17th December, 2011: Folkestone Observer Reports for 1861 Added

Thursday 15 December 2011

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15th December, 2011. Martin Easdown has kindly sent more photos for the Blog and these have now been added: Central Hotel, George, North Foreland, Oddfellows Arms, Packet Boat, Pavilion Shades, Prince Albert, Queen`s Head, Radnor, Raglan, Railway Bell, Railway Tavern, Red Cow, Richmond Tavern, Rose Hotel, Royal eorge, Royal Oak, Royal Standard, Shakespeare, Ship, South Foreland, Sportsman`s Tavern, Star, Swan, Three Compasses, Tramway Tavern, True Briton, Two Bells. My thanks to him for his kindness.

Wednesday 14 December 2011

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14th December, 2011: Folkestone Chronicle Reports for 1880 Added

Tuesday 13 December 2011

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13th December, 2011: I have now received permission to include reports from the Folkestone Observer on the blog. My thanks to Kent Libraries and to the Kent Messenger Group (the Observer merged with the Kentish Express in September 1870). A link to the K.M. Group will be found in the Links section.

This will mean that many cases will be reported twice, but hopefully with some more detail, and almost certainly there will be cases reported here that were not covered in the Chronicle. It makes perfect sense to me to include reports from all the local newspapers chronologically in order of publication, so, as the necessary permissions are granted, so those other publications will be included.

Sunday 11 December 2011

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11th December, 2011: Photographs added for Star Inn, Lifeboat, Rose Hotel, Warren Inn, Pavilion Hotel, and Pavilion Shades Added

Saturday 10 December 2011

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10th December, 2011: Folkestone Chronicle Reports for 1879 Added

Martin Easdown, co-author of Tales From The Tap Room has kindly sent photos for Alexandra Hotel, Alexandra Tavern, Belle Vue Hotel, Black Bull, Blue Anchor (also showing Providence and Queen`s Head), Bouverie Arms, Bricklayers Arms, Channel Inn, Clarendon, Eagle, Earl Grey, East Cliff Tavern, Eask Kent Arms, Foresters Arms, George III, Globe Hotel, Harvey, Honest Lawyer, Imperial, Jubilee, London And Paris, Lord Nelson, and Mechanics Arms. These are also now added. My thanks to Martin.

Wednesday 7 December 2011

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7th December, 2011: Folkestone Chronicle Reports for 1878 Added

Sunday 4 December 2011

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4th December, 2011: Folkestone Chronicle Reports for 1877 Added