Thanks And Acknowledgements

My thanks go to Kent Libraries and Archives - Folkestone Library and also to the archive of the Folkestone Herald. For articles from the Folkestone Observer, my thanks go to the Kent Messenger Group. Southeastern Gazette articles are from UKPress Online, and Kentish Gazette articles are from the British Newspaper Archive. See links below.

Paul Skelton`s great site for research on pubs in Kent is also linked

Other sites which may be of interest are the Folkestone and District Local History Society, the Kent History Forum, Christine Warren`s fascinating site, Folkestone Then And Now, and Step Short, where I originally found the photo of the bomb-damaged former Langton`s Brewery, links also below.


Welcome

Welcome to Even More Tales From The Tap Room.

Core dates and information on licensees tenure are taken from Martin Easdown and Eamonn Rooney`s two fine books on the pubs of Folkestone, Tales From The Tap Room and More Tales From The Tap Room - unfortunately now out of print. Dates for the tenure of licensees are taken from the very limited editions called Bastions Of The Bar and More Bastions Of The Bar, which were given free to very early purchasers of the books.

Easiest navigation of the site is by clicking on the PAGE of the pub you are looking for and following the links to the different sub-pages. Using the LABELS is, I`m afraid, not at all user-friendly.

Contrast Note

Whilst the above-mentioned books and supplements represent an enormous amount of research over many years, it is almost inevitable that further research will throw up some differences to the published works. Where these have been found, I have noted them. This is not intended to detract in any way from previous research, but merely to indicate that (possible) new information is available.

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Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Updates

30th November, 2011: Folkestone Chronicle reports for 1876 added

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

The View, West Terrace c2009 - 2013

The View, Summer 2011

Licensees

No Details Available

Formerly La Vue

Closed December, 2013.

La Vue, West Terrace c2004 - c2009

Licensees
No Details Available

Renamed The View

Monday, 28 November 2011

Skuba Bar, The Leas c2000 - Present

Skuba Bar, Summer 2011

Licensees

No details available

The Office, The Leas 2004 - Present

The Office, Summer 2011
Licensees
Patrick Dubus and Clive Weatherhogg 2004 2004 +

The Bank, Tontine Street c2008 - c2010

The Bank, Autumn 2011
No details available

True Briton (2), Harbour Street 2011 - 2017 (Reverted to Harbour Inn)

True Briton (2), Summer 2011

Licensees

No details available

Impressions, Tontine Street 2006 - 2006

Site of former Impressions, Summer 2011

 

Licensees
No details available

Stones, Rendezvous Street c2009 - c2011

Stones Bar July 2011

Stones Bar, 27-6-2009. Credit Paul Skelton (from http://www.dover-kent.com/Stones-Bar-Folkestone.html)

 

Licensees

No details available

Bank Bar, Castle Hill Avenue c2006 - Present

No details available
 
Bank Bar, Summer 2011

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Updates

27th November, 2011:  Folkestone Chronicle Reports for 1875 Added

Red Lion (3), The Bayle Added

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Updates

24th November, 2011 Folkestone Chronicle Reports for 1874 Added.

Sunday, 20 November 2011

Updates

20th November, 2011  Folkestone Chronicle Reports for 1873 added.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Updates

17th November 2011:  Folkestone Chronicle reports for 1872 added

Overview of Licensing Act 1872 added

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Updates

12th November 2011: Folkestone Chronicle reports for 1871 added

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Updates

9th November 2011: Folkestone Chronicle reports for 1870 added

Chequers, Seagate Street: Floor plans added

Wheatsheaf (2), Bridge Street: Photograph added

Rendezvous, Old High Street: Current Photograph added

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Updates

Saturday 5th November, 2011 Folkestone Chronicle reports from 1869 published.

Photos of Victoria, Risborough Lane undergoing conversion to housing added

Friday, 4 November 2011

Updates

So far, all the contemporary newspaper reports have come from the Folkestone Chronicle, but even by the date we`re up to at present (1869) there were other newspapers being published in the town. By this time the town was also being served with the Folkestone Observer and the Folkestone Express.

Whereas I would have liked to - in an ideal world - keep the reports running chronologically, and to have had stories from these other two papers inserted already, the permissions I need to be able to do that are not yet in place. (I have 6 years or so of the Observer already transcribed and ready to be put here, for example).

To avoid readers having to go through a lot of older postings to find the updates, as and when there are new items on the blog I`ll make an update post - the next will be over the weekend, hopefully, when 1869`s Chronicle is finally ready to be viewed. When the time comes that reports from the other papers are ready to be posted they`ll be put in the correct date order amongst the posts.

As you would expect, there will be a lot of "repeat" type postings, but the way in which things are reported in different sources will also lead to more information becoming available. It is certainly also the case that there are stories that have appeared on the Observer which are not reported in the Chronicle and vice versa. We can only assume that the same will hold true for the other papers as and when they make it here.