Folkestone Gazette
14-3-1962
Townsman`s Diary
Mrs. Faith Goldsack, of 21, Chilham Road, Cheriton,
writes to tell me that before the existing White Lion building at Cheriton
there was another. “It was owned by my late husband`s grandfather, Henry
Baldock”, writes Mrs. Goldsack, who states that there was a statue of a white
lion in front of the inn. “I believe the statue is still in the possession of
one of the family”, she continues. For many years Mrs. Goldsack had a
photograph of the old inn, but it was loaned to someone and not returned. “My late husband asked for it several times, and just
before he died in August, 1957, he said he would have liked to have had the
picture back. I would also like to have it for my son and his family”, adds
Mrs. Goldsack.
Should the person who
has the picture see this note perhaps they will be good enough to return it to
Mrs. Goldsack.
Folkestone Herald
3-11-1962
Local News
An intruder, who smashed a window at the back of the
White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, on Wednesday afternoon, stole £13 from the till in
the private bar.
Folkestone Gazette
21-11-1962
Local News
Said to have broken into a Cheriton public house and
stolen £11 12/6, Michael Lynch, of Milton Barracks, Gravesend, was sent for
trial by Folkestone Magistrates on Friday to Folkestone Quarter Sessions in
January.
Lynch, who was remanded in custody, told the Court “If I
was given the opportunity I would like to pay all this money back. I an very
sorry all this has happened”.
Mr. Norman Franks, prosecuting, said that on the
afternoon of October 31st the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, was
locked, but left unoccupied. At 6.05 p.m. Mrs. Irene Poole, who was looking
after the hotel while the licensee, Mr. Reginald Peters, her brother, was away,
returned and found that a window at the back of the bar had been smashed and
glass scattered all over the floor. It was later found that money totalling £11
12/6 was missing. Lynch was interviewed subsequently by D.C. Brian Fowler. At
first he denied knowing anything about the offence, but later admitted that he
did. D.C. Fowler said that Lynch made a statement to him, saying that he broke
a window at the White Lion Hotel at about 2.45 p.m. on October 31st.
Inside he took money from the till and also 5/- in halfpennies from a shelf.
When he got outside he threw the halfpennies away. He gave £9 to his wife for
housekeeping and spent the rest himself.
Folkestone Gazette
12-2-1964
Local News
First attempt to build up a pile of pennies at the White
Lion, Cheriton, resulted in £11 5/- being obtained for the British Empire
Cancer Campaign. The pile was knocked over by Ald. Wilfred Harris on Friday
evening.
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Folkestone Herald 3-4-1965
Local News
Mr. William (Billy) Banks retired as barman at the
London and Paris Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday. He had been there for the
past nine years.
The customers contributed to a parting gift and presented
him with an electric razor on his last night at the bar. The landlord, Mr. A. Wells, gave him £10, and his wife presented him with £5.
Mr. Banks, who is 68,
has been a barman for 45 years. Before going to the London and Paris he worked at
the White Lion, Cheriton, and the Swan Hotel, Hythe. Mr. Banks lives with his
sister in Radnor Park Crescent, Folkestone.
Folkestone Gazette
1-2-1967
Local News
Mrs. A. Peters, wife of the landlord of the White Lion
Hotel, Cheriton, pushed over £12 5s. in pennies last Tuesday. The money went to
the British Empire Cancer Campaign for Research.
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Folkestone Herald 14-9-1968
Obituary
Mr. Herbert Joseph Samway, former landlord of the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton,
for 22 years, died recently after a long illness. Bert
Samway, as he was known by his wide circle of friends and acquaintances, had
lived with his wife at Dunromin, Teddars Leas, Etchinghill, since his retirement
18 years ago. He was 76.
Mr. Samway was born in Maidstone, and began his career there as a
watchmaker and jeweller. He transferred to the licensed trade in
1928, when he took his first public house, the Fleur-de-Lis, in Sandgate. After
10 years there, during which time he became a founder member of the Sandgate Branch
of the British Legion, and was a member of the Castle Lodge of Freemasons, Mr.
Samway moved to the White Lion, where he and his wife stayed until 1950, when
Mr. Samway retired. Mr. Samway was a Knight of the Royal
Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.
Three years after joining the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916 he was
married at Maidstone. Representatives of the British Legion
and many other friends and villagers attended the funeral at Lympne Parish
Church on Monday.
Folkestone Gazette
26-11-1969
Local News
Thieves knocked a hole through a brick wall at the White
Lion at Cheriton in the early hours of yesterday morning – while the licensee,
Mr. R.B. Peters, slept soundly upstairs. They stole cash, cigarettes and
spirits worth up to £200. They broke in through a window at the rear of the
premises and then knocked a hole through an inside wall to get to the bars.
Said Mr. Peters “I didn`t hear a thing. I keep a dog, which must have barked,
but even that did not wake me”.
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