Folkestone Gazette
6-5-1964
Local News
Another pile of pennies for the British Empire Cancer
Research Fund. This one, at the Raglan Hotel, was knocked over by Mrs. E. Fagg
on Friday. Total value of the pennies, collected over a short period, was £10
12/-. Thanks were expressed to Mr. F. Pepper, the licensee, and Mrs. Fagg by
Mr. Sydney Hancock. 
Folkestone Gazette
31-3-1965
Local News
A pile of pennies to be given to the Cancer Research
Campaign is pushed down by Ald. Wilf Harris, Folkestone`s Mayor-elect. He is
watched by the licensees of the Raglan Hotel, Folkestone, who collected the
money.
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Folkestone Herald 3-4-1965
Local News
Alderman Wilf Harris, Folkestone’s Mayor-elect,
pushes over a pile of pennies at the Raglan Hotel, Folkestone. Watching is Mrs. E. Fagg, who organised
the collection in aid of the Cancer Research Campaign, and the licensee, Mr.
W.J.C. Davis. The
pile took live months to build and raised £19 6s. 6d.
Folkestone Herald 1-1-1966
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Folkestone Gazette
4-1-1967
Local News
Miss W.E. Alden, matron of St. Mary`s Hospital,
Etchinghill, pushes over a pile of pennies at the Raglan Hotel, Dover Road,
Folkestone. Mrs. E. Fagg, a regular, has been collecting pennies in
the bar since last Christmas, and the pile was worth £19 3s. 9d. The pennies
bought presents for old people at St. Mary`s Hospital who had no-one to visit
them at Christmas.
Mrs. W. Davis, publican`s wife, Mrs. Fagg, and men from
the bar took parcels to the hospital on Christmas morning.
Folkestone Gazette
13-12-1967
Local News
Mr William Davis, licensee of the Raglan Hotel, Dover
Road, Folkestone, has won his battle to have the giant road direction sign
removed from outside his hotel, where, he complained, it blocked out light and
view. In his fight Mr. Davis wrote to his local M.P., Mr. Albert Costain, and
to the town council. Now the sign, which replaced a much smaller one, has been
moved to the opposite corner. This week a corporation spokesman said “We moved
the sign when we wre able to find this other suitable site. It is not the best
site from the point of view of the motorist it is designed to help, but it is
one we consider to be reasonably acceptable”.
In a letter to the Gazette this week Mr. Davis wrote “I
would like to thank you and your staff for the assistance you gave me in my
fight against the department concerned in the erecting of a motorway road sign
which completely obliterated one side of my premises. It is very gratifying to
know that in this near-as-damn-it police state the Press still has the freedom
to publish the views of the man in the street without prejudice. Once again, I
thank you”.
Folkestone Herald 29-6-1968
Local News
When the licensee of a Folkestone public house set out for home after a
darts match he had no worries about being stopped by the police and asked to
take a breath test because he played safe - he and his wife took a taxi. But
when William Davis, licensee of the Raglan Hotel, Dover Road, arrived home he
was locked out. The keys were on the bar counter of the public house where the
darts match had been played.
But Davis did have the keys of a car parked in the driveway to the
Raglan, and it was only a few hundred yards to the home of his barman, who had
a duplicate key to the hotel. The temptation was too great.
At Folkestone Magistrates` Court on Tuesday Davis was fined £40 and
banned from driving for a year after he had pleaded Guilty to driving with more
than the prescribed limit of alcohol in the blood, and careless driving.
Mr. Glenn Hill, prosecuting, said two police officers in a car in Dover
Road in the early hours of Monday morning decided to follow Davis when they
saw his car swing to the centre of the road and then swing back to its own
side. They saw the car turn again to the centre of the road, slow to about 15 m.p.h. and
then move back to its nearside. The car turned into Hill Road, where a
motorcyclist came up behind it. When the driver of the car signalled he was
turning right the motorcyclist moved forward slightly to overtake the car on
the nearside, but then the car`s signal was cancelled and the vehicle moved
back, said Mr. Hill. The same
thing happened again, and when the policemen stopped the car the
driver, Davis, told them “I am looking for my barman”. When they noticed that his breath smelled of drink they asked him
to take an Alcotest, which proved positive. Davis told the police that he had
drunk four or five whiskies and explained he had been locked out. The result of a blood test showed 133
milligrams of alcohol in comparison with the stipulated limit of 80.
Mr. S.J. Moss, defending, told the Court that he was not making excuses
for Davis, who
had had 28 years’ service with the Coldstream Guards, 15 as a R.S.M. “He is a strict disciplinarian”, said
Mr. Moss. “He came
out of the Service in 1961 with an exemplary character and had one public
house for 18 months before moving to the Raglan”. Mr. Moss said that Davis returned home in a
taxi so there would be no trouble about breathalysers. When the taxi drove away
he found he had left his keys behind. “So there he was, left out in the early
hours of the morning with the car on the forecourt”, said Mr. Moss. “His barman
lives in Hill Road but he was
not sure of the address. As far as Davis was concerned, he felt fit to drive.” The car swerved when Davis wiped the windscreen which had steamed up. He signalled his intention to turn because he thought he had reached the turning he wanted, but then discovered it was not. He asked that the special circumstances
of the case should be taken into consideration.
The magistrates fined Davis £25 and banned him from driving for a year
for driving with excess alcohol in his blood, and £15 for driving without due
care and attention. His licence was endorsed and he was ordered to pay four
gns. costs.
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