Folkestone Herald
17-9-1982
Local News
Landlord Bob Lord put the towels over the beer pumps at
Folkestone`s Bouverie Hotel for the last time on Monday. Ill health has forced
Mr. Lord to leave the pub after 36 years and retire with his wife Joan to a new
home in Seabrook.
On Saturday friends and regulars gathered at the pub,
which was run by Mr. Lord`s father before him, to bid the popular couple
farewell. The Bouverie Hotel is being taken over by a private hotel company
from Essex.
The licensing trade runs in Mr. Lord`s family. He was
born in a pub at Green St. Green in 1921, where his father Percy was landlord.
Mr. Lord went to the Morehall and Harvey Grammar Schools, and for a brief
period went into farming. He met his wife in the early days of World War II
while working at Dover Casualty Hospital. The couple took over the hotel in
1946, but Mr. Lord remembers the days when a circus elephant used to pop in for
a pint, and Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world yachtsman, was a regular visitor
while in the market garden business in Thanet.
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South Kent Gazette
15-6-1983
Local News
Cockney comedian Arthur Mullard helped to open the
new-look Bouverie Hotel in Folkestone. He was the star attraction to launch a
new era at the hotel, which includes selling real ale brewed in Kent.
The hotel, in Shellons Street, Middelburg Square, has
been taken over by partners Mr. David Bumpstead and Mr. Ian Hilton. It will be
managed by Mr. Tom Riley. They already have a nightclub in Hornchurch, Essex, a
hotel in Brentwood, Essex, and a hotel on the pier at Gravesend which brews its
own beer. And that’s where the beer at
the Bouverie Hotel comes from. Known as Hilton real ale, the beer has some
amazing names, including Clipper, Gravedigger, Buccaneer and Lifebuoy.
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Folkestone Herald
20-6-1986
Local News
A secretary and several company managers landed in the swim last week
when they decided to celebrate their firm’s bi-centenary in style.
But it was not so much a dip in the ocean they took, more a twenty-nine
and half mile dive. For a team of six proudly heralded the name of their company,
Lovell Construction and Property Development of Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire,
and waded into the icy blue Channel off Dover in a brave attempt to swim to
France.
Unfortunately, just four miles off Cap Griz-Nez in France, the freezing water got the better of the relay team, who were taking it in
one hour swimming stints, and had to be pulled in. But their disappointment was short-lived for they managed to warm the
cockles of the hearts of residents at the Bouverie Hotel, Middleburg Square,
Folkestone. A party was thrown to boost funds by hotel managers Bill and Heather
McFarlane and they went home with £78 to add to their collection for the Spinal
Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
A spokesman for Y. J. Lovell said “We were very impressed with the
hospitality and generosity we received from the Bouverie Hotel. Their
donations helped towards our target of £15,000 for our charity and we have every
confidence that we’ll beat it”.
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