Baker Brewer, Mill Bay

Map taken from Folkestone Herald

Kentish Gazette 11-3-1775 

On Tuesday last died at Folkestone, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with great fortitude and patience, Mr. Tho. Baker, brewer, and one of the Jurats of that town.

Kentish Gazette 18-8-1784

Advertisement extract: To be sold by auction, sometime in the month of September next, the time and place of which notice will be given in this paper, (unless the premises should in the meantime be disposed of by private contract), the following freehold and copyhold estates, viz;

Lot 1 A messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances in Folkestone, lying at the back part of the Three Compasses, and now in the occupation of the widow Godden.

The three first lots are copyhold, and the rest freehold, being the estate late belonging to Mr. Thomas Baker, Brewer, of Folkestone aforesaid, deceased.

For particulars enquire of Mrs. Ann Baker, or of Mr. John Baker, Brewer, at Folkestone aforesaid.

And all persons to whom the said Thomas Baker stood indebted at the time of his decease are desired to send an account thereof to the said Ann Baker or John Baker, in order that they may be discharged. And all persons indebted to the estate and effects of the said Thomas Baker are desired forthwith to pay the same into the hands of the said Ann Baker or John Baker, or they will be sued for the same without further notice.

Note: The sale actually took place on 2^nd October at the Marquis of Granby.

Folkestone Herald 29-9-1928

Extract from an article entitled The Old Order Changeth.

Often below a mill the water spreads itself out and forms what is called a bay. Thus it is likely that the neighbourhood of upper Tontine Street at one time was a great shallow pool, the Mill Bay, which name survives in an obscure thoroughfare to High Street. In the eighteenth century the low ground on the left of the stream had been drained, tan pits dug, and the tanner`s house built partly over the stream. William Johncock was tanning there in 1782. His house faced a comparatively large brewery belonging to Ann Baker, who was also the owner of the recently demolished Rose Inn (hotel). Between the tannery and the brewery Mill Bay was entered.

Note: No mention of Ann Baker in More Bastions, but she may have been the owner and not the licensee of the Rose.