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.


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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.

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Saturday 27 July 2013

British Lion 1900s



Folkestone Programme 28-5-1900

Notes

There is a well-known hostelry in Folkestone widely and justly renowned for its home-like cosiness and general good cheer. Though the building is small and old-fashioned, though elaborate decorations are conspicuous by their absence, or rather, perhaps, because of all this, the British Lion more than holds its own with any modern house that boats electric light, plate glass, and “all the latest improvements”. It is perhaps, chiefly, the general air of homeliness, together with the invariable geniality of the host and hostess and their son and daughter, that endears the Lion to numerous patrons. In the smoking room of an evening a congenial circle meet and enjoy all the comforts and privileges of a private club.

Folkestone Express 9-8-1902

Friday, August 1st: Before W.G. Herbert, and G.I. Swoffer Esqs.

Morgan Elliott, a negro, was charged with being drunk and disorderly.

P.C. Allen stated he saw prisoner in Church Street the previous evening about 9 o`clock. He was then very drunk. Witness saw him go into the British Lion, but the barman turned him out, when he commenced to use obscene language. As prisoner refused to go away, witness took him into custody.

Prisoner, who said that he could not remember anything, was fined 5s. and 4s. 6d. costs; in default seven days` hard labour.

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