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 2 March 2013

Updates

2nd March, 2013: Folkestone Herald Reports for 1901 Added.

Royal Oak (1) 1900s

Royal Oak. William Henry Collar (son of the landlord) and his mother, Bessie Jane Collar.. Date unknown. From a postcard. Image by kind permission of Jeremy Godden



Folkestone Chronicle 31-8-1901

Wednesday, August 28th: Before Alderman J. Banks, and Messrs. Wightwick, Herbert, Hamilton, and Swoffer.

Mr. Collar, a late employee of the Folkestone Corporation, was granted temporary authority to retail beer, etc., at the Royal Oak Inn, North Street.

Folkestone Express 31-8-1901

Wednesday, August 28th: before Alderman Banks, Colonel Hamilton, W.G. Herbert, W. Wightwick, and G.I. Swoffer Esqs.

The licence of the Royal Oak, North Street, was temporarily transferred to Mr. Collar.


Folkestone Herald 31-8-1901

Wednesday, August 28th: Before Alderman J. Banks, Messrs. W. Wightwick, W.G. Herbert and G.I. Swoffer, and Lieut. Colonel Hamilton.

Mr. Collard was given temporary authority to carry on business at the Royal Oak Inn until the Adjourned Licensing Sessions.
 

Folkestone Express 14-9-1901

Wednesday, September 11th: Before T.J. Vaughan, G. Peden, and J. Stainer Esqs., Lieut. Col. Westropp, and Lieut. Col. Hamilton.

Henry Collar was granted a transfer of the licence of the Royal Oak, North Street.


Folkestone Herald 14-9-1901

Wednesday, September 11th: Before Councillors T.J. Vaughan and G. Peden, Mr. J. Stainer, Mr. W. Wightwick, and Lieut. Colonels Westropp and Hamilton.

The licence of the of the Royal Oak, North Street, was transferred to Henry Collard