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Folkestone Herald
30-4-1960
Obituary
The landlord of the Harbour Inn, Folkestone, Mr. Victor
Albert Parks, died suddenly early last Friday morning, at the age of 47.
Mr. Parks was born at the Globe public house, Dover,
where his father was landlord. Shortly afterwards the family moved to the George and Dragon, Temple Ewell, where
his father is still licensee.
In 1947, Mr. and Mrs. Parks came to Folkestone from
London, where the former had been a sheet-metal worker. For the past thirteen
years he had been licensee of the Harbour Inn, where he proved an extremely
popular host.
Mr. Parks leaves a widow, a son and a daughter.
The funeral service was held at Folkestone Parish
Church on Wednesday.
Folkestone Gazette
20-9-1961
Local News
A huge pile of pennies worth £40 17/3 spilled into a
blanket held by patrons of the Harbour Inn public house, Folkestone, on
Saturday. The pile, which must be one of the largest ever built locally, was
started shortly before Christmas, and the full amount will be donated to the
British Empire Cancer Campaign. The
average yield of such a collection is in the region of £10, but owing to the
generosity of the Harbour’s customers, this pile far exceeded the hopes of the
licensee, Mrs. V. Parks. Headed by Major Jackson, of the Corner House Hotel,
Folkestone, Alan Penn, Brenda Ross and Isabel Macintosh, members of the
“Dazzle” company who were making their final appearance of the season at Folkestone,
demolished the pile. It is estimated that the pennies weighed nearly two-and-a-half
hundredweights. Mrs. Parks had intended to build the column to an even greater
height, but the counter on which it stood was beginning to show signs of
strain. The next pile will be given to a children’s organisation.
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| Photo from Folkestone Gazette 11-7-1962 |
Folkestone Gazette
11-7-1962
Local News
How many pennies do you think are piled in this picture?
Over 9,500, and at the Harbour Inn on Friday, Mr. F. Bourne, headmaster of the
Bruce Porter Home, East Cliff, sent them sprawling. The pile amounted to £41
10/3, and this very useful sum is being used for hiring two caravans at
Winchelsea next month so that some of the Bruce Porter children can have a
holiday there. They started piling the column of pennies last September.
Folkestone Herald 2-4-1966
Local News
An18-year-old Folkestone
youth, said to be perfectly quiet and respectable, was fined £25 at Folkestone
magistrates’ court on Tuesday for assaulting a police officer in the execution
of his duty and £5 for a breach of the peace.
“We take a serious view of this assault
on the police, and had there been a vacancy at a detention centre, we would
have sent you there”, the chairman, Mr. F.J. Baden Fuller, told Keith Lomax, of
Montacue Court, Westbourne Gardens. “Your solicitor has said this was an impulse on your part”, Mr. Baden
Fuller added. “We
never want to see you before this court again”.
Mr. Norman Franks, prosecuting, said the charges arose out of an
incident at the Harbour Inn on the night of March 12. A disturbance broke out at about 10.30
p.m. and P.C. Graham Newton was kicked and punched by Lomax.
Mr. Victor Hood, the licensee, said he was called to the public bar
where an argument had broken out among a group of people. Lomax was in an
aggressive mood and his fists were clenched. When he asked him lo leave Lomax struck him.
The police were called. P.C. Newton arrived and
with the help of Mr. Hood tried to get Lomax out of the premises-. Other people
in the bar tried to pull them off, but they eventually managed to get him out
of the back door.
P.C. Newton told the
court that at first Lomax refused to leave the premises and continued to fight
and struggle as he was escorted outside.
During the struggle,
Lomax lashed out with his feet and kicked him on the legs. Lomax went berserk and
shouted “You dirty .... copper. Let go
of me”. The officer
said that Lomax, with assistance from other people in the bar, managed to
struggle free. He heard someone shout “Run away”. P.C. Newton said when he tried to
leave the premises a man blocked the door, and he had to lift him bodily before he
could pass.
He was punched on the face when he told Lomax he would be arrested. Two other police officers came to
his assistance, and Lomax was eventually taken to Folkestone police station
where he was placed in a cell.
Lomax, who pleaded not guilty, denied kicking or punching the officer, or
using threatening language. He was not involved in the commotion but agreed he struggled because the
police officer had picked on the wrong person. It was unlikely that he would
have used offensive language because his parents and his girlfriend were in the
bar.
Mr. George Lomax said his son was not involved in the argument in any
way. It concerned his elder son, George, and another man.
Mr. John Medlicott, defending, said when Lomax`s father and brother
became involved in the argument, he tried to pacify them. “He was quite clearly
suffering from a sense of grave injustice”, submitted Mr. Medlicott.
The Court was told that Lomax had been on probation for two years ending
in August, 1962, and completed his probation satisfactorily.
Folkestone Gazette
22-6-1966
Local News
Torrential rain in the early hours of Friday morning caused havoc in Folkestone’s High Street. Thousands of gallons of
surface water draining from the main shopping centre burst through an 18in. water-sewage
drain under High Street flooding shops, public houses and other premises and
blocking the lower end of Tontine Street with tons of sand, sludge and rubble.
Gangs of Corporation workmen were on the scene by 6 a.m. clearing drains and
opening the road to traffic. Eye witnesses said that at one time the road was
flooded to a depth of two feet with a “sea of yellow filth”. A Corporation
spokesman said the flooding was caused when the sewer pipe collapsed. “Drainage
surface water, under pressure, must have leaked from the pipe, washing out a
cavity under the road”, he said. “This caused the pipoe and the raod surface to
collapse”. On Monday night High Street was still closed to traffic as workmen
laid new pipes and filled in the cavities with weak concrete. “This is done to
prevent a recurrence and to reduce any risk of damage to the foundations of
nearby properties”, said the spokesman. In all, workmen cleared away five lorry
loads of sand and rubble – about 20 tons – from Tontine Street.
At the
Harbour Inn the licensee, Mr. V. Hood, said “This is the third time this has
happened to me in 13 months. It is about time the Corporation did something
about it. It would not be a big job. Fortunately it was rainwater and not
sewage that flooded us out, otherwise all my stock would have had to be sent
back”.
At the True Briton,
licensee Mr. Steve Heron, said “This has happened three four times to me, but
this was the worst. It was absolutely horrible. You
could have sailed a boat outside. And it wasn’t just dirty surface water; it
was a really disgusting, filthy mess, a sea of yellow filth. It’s about time the health authority did something about it”.
Mr. Heron was up and about
at the time the flood started, and while his cellar was flooded he managed to
sluice most of the filth away with a hosepipe as the water receded. “This sort of thing makes you
lose heart”, he said. “And it would cost so little to have it put right. For a few pounds the local
authority could dig a decent sized drain and then let the water flow out into
the harbour”.
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