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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Saturday 22 October 2011

Star (1), Site Unknown Listed 1717

Licensee

Benjamin Masters Listed 1717

Skippy`s Bar, Tontine Street 1992 - 1994

The former Skippy`s Bar, 1999. Credit Martin Easdown
 

Licensees

Barry Armstrong and Kerry Armstrong 1992 1993
Michael Burchett and Paul Mitchell 1993 1994

Scruffy Murphy`s, Rendezvous Street 1995 - 1999

Licensees
Catherine Kenneally and Audrey Anderson 1995 1995
Catherine Kenneally, Audrey Anderson and Owen Maxwell 1995 1996
Catherine Kenneally and Audrey Anderson 1996 1996
Audrey Anderson and David McFadden 1996 1997
David McFadden and Fiona Tweedie 1997 1998
Alison Scott 1998 1998
Gerald Edwards, Samantha Rhodes and Sharon Davies 1998 1999
Sharon Davies and Seamus Joyce 1999 1999 Renamed Fitzpatricks

Samuel Peto, Rendezvous Street c2007 - Present

Photo taken 2021

Samuel Peto 27-6-2009. Credit Paul Skelton (from http://www.dover-kent.com/Samuel-Peto-Folkestone.html)


Licensees 

No details available

Salutation, Site Unknown Listed 1741

Licensee

John Castle Listed 1741

Red Witch, Tontine Street 1996 - 1997

Licensees

David Atkins and John Mees 1996 1997 From Harvey Hotel
Kathleen Mills and Terence Chamberlain 1997 1997 Kathleen Hills From Cheker. Terence Chamberlain Later Pullman

Red Lion (in the Fields), Site Unknown Listed 1717

Licensee

Thomas Fields Listed 1717

Red Lion (1), The Stade c1700 - 1765

Licensee 

William Hancock Listed 1741
Anne Gittens 1765
 
Folkestone Sessions Books 1765 – 1779 & 1792 - 1811


General Sessions 23-7-1765

Red Lyon

Ann Gittens, of the Town of Folkestone, in the County of Kent, victualler, Neat Ladd, of the same place, victualler, and Jacob Boxer, of the same place, victualler, came before me, John Hague Esq., Mayor, and other, the Jurats of the said town, and acknowledged themselves indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King in the manner following (that is to say): the said Ann Gittens in ten pounds and both the aforesaid Neat Ladd and Jacob Boxer in five pounds apiece as sureties for the said Ann Gittens, to be levied on each and every of their goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to and for the only proper use and behove of our said Lord the King, his heirs and successors.

The condition of this recognisance is such that whereas the above bound Ann Gittens is by the above named Mayor and Jurats licensed and allowed to keep a common inn or victualling house wherein she now dwells commonly called or known by the sign of the Red Lyon in Folkestone aforesaid from the date hereof for one whole year next ensuing or until the next General Licensing of Victuallers of the said town and no longer, if the said Ann Gittens  shall keep the due assize of bread and beer and shall not suffer any unlawful game or games, drunkenness or any other disorder in his (sic) said house, yard, garden or backside, but shall and do in all things govern the said house in accordance with the laws of this Realm, that then this recognisance shall be void, otherwise remain in full force or virtue.

The mark of Ann Gittens
Neat Ladd
Jacob Boxer
  

Note: This does not appear in More Bastions