Even More Tales From The Tap Room: 19 Oct 2011

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.

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Good Intent, Old High Street Mentioned 1863

Licensees No details available

It is very likely that this was a reference to the house of the same name in Sandgate

Globe (1), Site Unknown 1765 - 1769

Licensees
Richard Beer c 1765 1768 From Three Mackerel. Later Three Compasses
Richard Boxer 1768 1769

Gillespie`s, Harbour Street 2001 - Present

Gillespie`s, June 2012

Gillespie`s, 2009. Credit Paul Skelton (from http://www.dover-kent.com/Gillespies-Folkestone.html)

Licensees
Kevin Gillespie, Natalie Hill and Gary Burford 2001 2004 +

The Front, The Stade 2001 - 2004

The Front. Image by Matt Raines

Licensees
Gary Hardwick and Charles Gibbons 2001 2002
Gary Hardwick and Margaret Hardwick 2002 2003
Tim Prater and Season Prater 2003 2004 Renamed Nostalgia 50s Bar

Frenchman, Christchurch Road c2004 - 9/5/2017

The Frenchman, May 2012

Licensees
No details available

Fitzpatrick`s, Rendezvous Street 2000 - 2001

Licensees
Mandy Cooper and Mark Lawrence 2000 2000
Lee MacDonald and Daniel Ball 2000 2001 Renamed The Zoo

Fat Sam`s, South Street 2001 - c2003

Licensees
Mehdi Farramand Afshar and Abbas Farramand Afshar 2001 2001
Mehdi Farramand Afshar, Abbas Farramand Afshar and Ian Stammer 2001 2001
Mehdi Farramand Afshar, Abbas Farramand Afshar and Christopher Giles 2001 2001
Mehdi Farramand Afshar, Abbas Farramand Afshar and Richard Wilkins 2001 2002
Ashok Babu Shrestha and Wai Ching Wong 2002 2003 Renamed Kat-Man-Do

Duke`s Head, Fisherman`s Row (Radnor Street) Listed 1765

With thanks to Alan Taylor

Fisherman`s Row, as illustrated in S.J. Mackie`s "A Descriptive and Historical Account of Folkestone" 1856

Licensee
Ann Smith Listed 1765

Coffee House, Kingsbridge Street Mentioned 1717

Licensee
Margaret Elgar Listed 1717

Cock, Harbour Street c1741 - 1799

Licensees
Richard King Listed 1741
Bartholomew Minter c1765 1770 Ex Three Mariners
Sarah Minter 1770 1771
Richard Stevenson 1771 1779
Thomas Newman c1793 1729 Renamed True Briton

Clarence Inn, Bayle Street Mentioned 1868

No details available

Folkestone Chronicle 6-6-1868

Local News

During the thunderstorm of last Friday night part of the roadway in Bayle Street, in front of the Clarence Inn, fell in, and it required three or four loads of ballast to fill it in. Yesterday it again fell in, and in excavating it was found that an outlet from Bayle Pond running there had become stopped, and in an overflow had washed away the soil from under the stones. It has now been made safe.

City Of London, Site Unknown 1741 - 1771

Licensees
Thomas Hall Listed 1741
Thomas Mullen c1765 1771

Chambers, Radnor Chambers, Cheriton Place 1998 - Present

Chambers, May 2012

Chambers, 1999. Credit Martin Easdown

Licensees

Christopher Smith and Paul Cosgrave 1998 1999 Paul Cosgrave Later Earl Grey

Christopher Smith, Elizabeth Smith and Gary Doran 1999 2003
Christopher Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Gary Doran and Darryl Pond 2003 2003
Christopher Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Darryl Pond and Stuart Carmichael 2003 2004 +

Carpenters Arms, Site Unknown c1717 - 1741

Licensees
John Dadd Listed 1717
Elizabeth Verrier Listed 1741

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