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.

Contribute

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.

If you`ve enjoyed your visit here, why not buy me a pint, using the button at the end of the "Labels" section?


Search This Blog

Saturday, 6 September 2014

Foresters Arms 1930s



Folkestone Express 3-10-1931

Local News

The licence of the Foresters Arms, Shellons Street, was temporarily transferred from Mr. C. Ovenden to Mrs. Elers on Tuesday at the Folkestone Police Court. 

Folkestone Herald 3-10-1931

Local News

The Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday granted a protection order to Mrs. Elers, who is taking over the Foresters Arms, Shellons Street, from Mr. C. Ovenden.

Folkestone Express 31-10-1931

Obituary

It is with very deep regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. Charles Parks Ovenden, who until a month ago was a well-known licensed victualler. He had been in failing health for some time, and retiring from his business he went to reside at 29, Joyes Road, Folkestone, where he died on Wednesday.

Mr. Ovenden, who was 59 years of age, was the third son of the late Mr. Stephen Parks Ovenden, a highly respected Folkestone resident. He was for a number of years a solicitor`s clerk in the office of the late Mr. Harrison, the Town Clerk of Folkestone. For 20 years he was a member of the Parish Church Choir. In his younger days he was a keen football player, and for some years he was the goalkeeper of the Folkestone Football Club when they were an amateur side and played on the Park Farm ground, other members of the team including Messrs. Sidey, Billy Harris, and J.S. Clark.

The deceased leaves a widow and two sons, and with them and his brother and sisters the deepest sympathy will be felt in their sad bereavement.

The Funeral will take place on Monday at the Folkestone Cemetery at Hawkinge at 2.20 in the afternoon.

Folkestone Herald 31-10-1931

Obituary

We regret to record the death of Mr. Charles Parks Ovenden on Wednesday at his residence, 29, Joyes Road.

The deceased, who was until quite recently the licensee of the Foresters Arms, was 59 years of age and had been in poor health for some time.

He was the third son of the late Mr. Stephen Parks Ovenden and for a number of years was an assistant in the Town Clerk`s Office. For twenty years he was a member of the choir at the Parish Church, and in his youth played for the Folkestone Football Club as goalkeeper.

The deceased leaves a widow and two sons.

The funeral will take place on Monday afternoon at the Folkestone Cemetery at Hawkinge.

Folkestone Express 19-2-1938


Local News

On Friday the Folkestone Magistrates granted a protection order in respect of the transfer of the licence of the Foresters Arms from Mrs. Ellers to Mr. A. Creasey, formerly licensee at the Anchor Inn, Littlebourne. Mrs Ellers stated that she was taking another house in another district.

Folkestone Express 12-3-1938

Local News

At the adjourned general licensing sessions on Wednesday, at the Folkestone Police Court, the magistrates agreed to the transfer of the licence of the Forester’s Arms, Grace Hill, from Mrs. Ellers to Mr. A. Creasey, a protection order having been previously ob­tained.

Folkestone Express 23-9-1939

Lighting Regulations

There was a further batch of fifteen summonses at the Court on Tuesday, when the magistrates on the Bench were Mr. L.G.A. Collins, Alderman J W. Stainer, Miss G. Broome Giles and Mrs. A.M. Saunders.

William Creasey, the Forester’s Arms, Shellons Street, was fined 10/-.

P.C. Alexander said at 12.40 a.m. on the 14th September he was on duty and saw a light in a first floor window of the Forester’s Arms. It was a small window 4ft. by 6ft. He entered the back garden and saw a further window 4ft. by 5ft. covered by a thin blue curtain. He tried to call the occupiers of the house, but was unable to rouse them. The light then went out.

P.C. Barrett said at 9.05 a.m. on the 14th September he interviewed defendant. He said he had been in bed for some minutes when he was awakened by the youngster. His wife fixed him up and the light was turned out. He did not hear the bell. Defendant said he had a 15 watt bulb in the room, and the window was covered by two curtains.

 
 
 
 

 

No comments:

Post a Comment