London And Paris 1920 - 1924

Folkestone Express 14-2-1920

Annual Licensing Sessions

Wednesday, February 11^th: Before The Mayor, Mr. E.T. Ward, Mr. G.I. Swoffer, Councillor G. Boyd, Mr. J.H. Blamey, Councillor A. Stace, Col. Owen, Rev. Epworth Thompson, Councillor Hollands, Councillor Morrison, and Mr. L.G.A. Collins.

Plans were submitted by Mr. G.W. Haines for alterations to the London and Paris Hotel, and these were approved.

Folkestone Herald 21-2-1920

Annual Licensing Sessions

The annual licensing sessions for Folkestone were held at the Police Court, the Mayor presiding.

 

An application to make certain alterations to his premises, on the part of the owner of the London and Paris Hotel, was granted. Mr. G.W. Haines supported the request.

Folkestone Express 24-12-1921

County Court

Tuesday, December 20^th: Before Judge Shortt.

Margaret Dowling v Mrs. Gray: This was an application by an employee under the Workmen`s Compensation Act.

Plaintiff said Mr. Gray kept the London and Paris Hotel, Folkestone. She had been in his employ as cook. On the 13^th August she burnt her finger. She was frying fish, and a small blister was caused on her thumb by a splash of hot fat from the pan. The blister got rubbed off. She had to keep putting salt on bad fish, and her thumb got very sore. On the Sunday she told defendant`s son she had a bad thumb, and she put it in very hot water, and poulticed it. On the Monday she also told Mrs. Gray, who told her to go to the chemist, and he gave her boracic lint. On the Tuesday night her hand was so painful that she went to Dr. Crawford, and he told her to poultice it with linseed meal. She did so, and it was lanced on the Wednesday morning. She had no sleep owing to the pain, and Dr. Crawford lanced it again on the Thursday night. The next morning Mrs. Gray went into the kitchen, and said she was going to do the cooking, and she replied “You can do it with pleasure so far as I am concerned. I have come to get a drop of tea”. She returned to London, and went to the St. Mary`s Hospital, and there they again lanced her thumb. She received £2 per week, with board and lodgings, at Mrs. Gray`s. The top of her thumb was still of no use, and she had been out of work since last August. Now she was going to look for work. She was a pastrycook by trade. She had not been able to do any work up to the present, but she hoped to find employment.

Mr. Duckworth (barrister) represented Mrs. Gray, and in reply to his cross-examination, plaintiff said she was engaged as cook at the London and Paris Hotel and started work on the 9^th August. When she started work she had not a bandage on her thumb. She had previously been employed at a fish restaurant. Her injury was not due to a fish bone, but to bad fish.

Mrs. Katherine Mary Gray, wife of the proprietor of the London and Paris Hotel, said she engaged plaintiff as cook, and she commenced work on the 9^th August. She first complained about her thumb on the 10^th, and simply said it was painful. On the 11^th plaintiff showed her her thumb. It was discoloured, but there was no abrasion of the skin. She advised plaintiff to go to the chemist. On the 15^th she had to speak to plaintiff about vegetables for lunch being cold, and plaintiff declined to send up some hot vegetables, and she had to do it herself. Plaintiff was abusive, and she said she had cut her finger cleaning the kitchen. Plaintiff gave her a week`s notice. Plaintiff had never cleaned the kitchen.

Mrs. Emily Chadwick, employed in the bar at the hotel, said plaintiff went to the hotel on Monday night, and on the Tuesday morning, at 8.30, she noticed she had a piece of rag round her thumb.

His Honour said plaintiff had not satisfied him that the thumb was injured in her employment, or that a sound thumb had been injured in the manner described by the plaintiff. The doctor ought to have been called to prove the septic poisoning resulted from her employment. The case was left in doubt whether she had sustained the injury in the manner described. He considered furthermore that proper notice had been given. The application was therefore dismissed.

Folkestone Herald 24-12-1921

County Court

Tuesday, December 18^th: Before Judge Shortt.

Margaret Dowling v George Gray: This was an application under the Workmen`s Compensation Act for arbitration. Mr. H. Duckworth, barrister, appeared for the respondent.

Applicant said the defendant kept the London and Paris Hotel at Folkestone. She was employed there as a cook. On 13^th August she was frying fish when she had an accident. Some hot fat splashed from the pan, and blistered her thumb. The blister got rubbed off. There was some bad fish in the house, and she poisoned her hand through handling this fish. Her thumb got very sore. She poulticed it, and put it in very hot water. On Monday she told Mrs. Gray, and she then went to a chemist`s and got some boracic lint. On the Tuesday night her hand was so bad that she went to Dr. Crawford, and on Wednesday evening he lanced it. She went the next day and he lanced it again. She left defendant`s hotel on the Friday and went to London. She received treatment in a London hospital for her thumb. Her wages were £2 a week, with board and lodging, and she was claiming £1 15s. a week disablement pay. She had been out of work since last August. She could not do anything with the top of her thumb. She was a pastrycook by trade, and expected to get work shortly.

Mr. Duckworth: When Ireland has peace you are going to start again. (Plaintiff spoke with a strong Irish accent)

Cross-examined, witness said she had not injured her thumb before coming to defendant`s hotel. She had been employed at a fish restaurant previously. She was quite certain she had not poisoned her thumb before. She had no bandage on her thumb when she entered Mrs. Gray`s employ.

Mrs. C.M. Gray, the wife of the proprietor of the London and Paris Hotel, said she engaged the plaintiff, who commenced working on Tuesday, August 9^th. She complained about her thumb on the 10^th. On Thursday, the 11^th, she showed witness the thumb. There was no abrasion, but it was discoloured. Witness advised her to go to the chemist`s. On Monday, August 15^th, she went to see plaintiff about the vegetables being cold. She declined to heat up the vegetables, and witness had to do it herself. Dowling then gave notice, and said she had cut her finger cleaning the kitchen. Plaintiff never did clean the kitchen.

Mrs. E. Chadwick, employed in the bar at the London and Paris Hotel, said on the Tuesday after plaintiff came she had a piece of rag round her right thumb.

His Honour said the applicant had to prove that her injury arose out of and in the course of her employment at defendant`s. He was not satisfied after hearing the evidence that her injury was sustained during her employment at this hotel. He was not satisfied that her thumb was injured in the manner described by the plaintiff, and he was not satisfied that the septic poisoning resulted from something which she did in her employment there. Therefore her case failed.

Folkestone Express 11-11-1922

Local News

The Magistrates on Tuesday agreed to the temporary transfer of the licence of the London and Paris Hotel from Mr. G.B. Gray, who has held it for 20 years, to Mr. J.W. Gathercole.

Folkestone Herald 11-11-1922

Local News

At the Folkestone Petty Sessions on Tuesday the licence of the London and Paris Hotel was temporarily transferred from Mr. G.B. Gray, who has held it for many years, to Mr. J.W. Gathercole.

Folkestone Express 25-11-1922

Local News

The following transfer of licence was granted at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday morning: London and Paris Hotel, from Mr. George Gray to Mr. James William Gathercole, London.

Folkestone Herald 25-11-1922

Local News

At the Folkestone Police Court on Tuesday (Mr. G.I. Swoffer in the chair), the licence of the London and Paris Hotel was transferred from Mr. George B. Gray to Mr. James William Gathercole.

Folkestone Herald 24-11-1923

Local News

At the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday (before Mr. G.I. Swoffer) the licence of the London and Paris Hotel was transferred to Mr. Percy Henry Leonard.

Note: This is at variance with More Bastions.

 

Folkestone Express 24-5-1924

Wednesday, May 21^st: Before the Rev. Epworth Thompson, Mr. L.G.A. Collins, Councillor W. Hollands, Mr. Blamey, and Col. P. Broome-Giles.

Alterations to the London and Paris Hotel were approved.

Folkestone Herald 24-5-1924

Local News

At the Folkestone Petty Sessions on Wednesday before the Rev. H. Epworth Thompson and other Magistrates, plans for alterations to the London and Paris Hotel were submitted to the Magistrates, who approved of them.