Folkestone Gazette
13-2-1963
Local News
Permits under the Betting and Gaming Act for amusements
with prizes have been granted to the Martello Hotel, True Briton, Ship Inn,
East Cliff Tavern, Raglan Hotel, Royal Pavilion Bars, Railway Tavern, and Royal
Standard.
Folkestone Herald 7-8-1965
Local News
In the presence of a most distinguished company, Mr.
Douglas Thomson, ex-R.A.F. officer and Director of Whitbread`s Ltd., unveiled
the inn sign of the True Briton outside
the No. 1 (F) Squadron headquarters at R.A.F. West Raynham, Norfolk. The
sign was originally erected in Folkestone to pay tribute to fighter pilots who
flew from Hawkinge and Lympne and whose off-duty hours were spent mainly in
Folkestone during the 1939-45 war.
Some years ago the sign was changed to depict an old ship
in accordance with the brewery`s series of famous ships at their Kent
establishments.
Mr. Leslie Hunt (who served at Hawkinge in No. 313
“Czech” Squadron) wrote to the brewers asking them to hang this sign at an inn
near an R.A.F. base, but it proved impossible and Mr. Hunt was eventually
offered the sign for the R.A.F. or R.A.F. Association. He, in turn, suggested
to the Commanding Officer of No. 1 Squadron that it would be suitable for their
museum and it was immediately accepted and hangs outside in style.
At the unveiling ceremony former members of the Squadron
from the two world wars, with pilots like record-breaker Air Commodore Teddy
Donaldson, were in attendance, and Wing Commander Wilkinson, M.B.E., D.F.M. and
bar, who commanded No. 1 in 1941, drove from Sheerness for the occasion.
Thus a part of Folkestone lives on in Norfolk, thanks to
Whitbread`s generous act.
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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