Folkestone
Express 11-10-1930
Wednesday 8th October: Before Alderman R.G.
Wood, Miss A.M. Hunt, Mr. F. Seager, Mr. G.I. Swoffer, and Mr. W. Smith.
Stanley Arthur Bishop made application for the transfer
of the licence of the Alexandra Hotel, Beach Street, from John Edmund Fortune.
The Magistrates` Clerk said a protection order had been
granted to Mr. Bishop and he now asked for the transfer.
Chief Inspector Pittock said the police in London knew
of no reason why the licence should not be granted. The applicant was a man of
good character. He had been a builder.
Applicant said he had been in the building trade at
Woolwich and Romford. He had been living in Brentford and working at Romford.
The Bench granted the application.
A licence for a wireless installation was also granted.
Folkestone
Herald 11-10-1930
Wednesday, October 8th: Before Alderman R.G.
Wood, Mr. G.I. Swoffer, Miss A.M. Hunt, Mr. F. Seager, and Mr. W. Smith.
Stanley Arthur Bishop applied for the transfer of the
licence of the Alexandra Hotel, Beach Street, Folkestone, from John Edward
Fortune to himself. He was a builder, and had lived in Brentford.
The application was granted. The Bench also granted an
application for a licence for a wireless installation on the premises.
Folkestone
Express 14-3-1931
Adjourned Licensing Sessions
On Wednesday, at the Folkestone Adjourned Licensing
Sessions, the music and dancing licences were again granted, after the question
had been adjourned for a month, it being explained by Alderman Wood that the
conditions of the licences allowed vocal and instrumental music to be given
during certain hours on Sunday.
The Magistrates on the Bench were Alderman R.G. Wood,
The Mayor, Col. G.P. Owen, Mr. J.H. Blamey, Mr. F. Seager, Alderman A.E.
Pepper, Mr. W. Griffin, Eng. Rear Admiral L.J. Stephens, Alderman A. Castle,
and Miss A.M. Hunt.
The licences of the Bouverie Arms and Alexandra Hotel
were transferred to new tenants.
Folkestone
Express 11-3-1933
Adjourned Licensing Sessions
Wednesday, March 8th: Before Alderman R.G.
Wood, Dr. W.W. Nuttall, Mr. J.H. Blamey, Miss A.M. Hunt, Alderman T.S. Franks,
Mr. W. Smith, Eng. Read Admiral L.J. Stephens, and Mr. S.B. Corser.
The licence of the Alexandra Hotel was transferred to
Mr. F.J.E. May.
Folkestone
Express 19-5-1934
Inquest
On Wednesday Mr. G.W. Haines, the Folkestone Coroner,
investigated at an inquest at the Folkestone Town Hall the circumstances of the
death of Mrs. B.M. May, the wife of the licensee of the Alexandra Hotel,
Harbour Street, and who died early on Monday morning at the Royal Victoria
Hospital, where she had been taken some days after falling downstairs on March
2nd with a broken kneecap. She was treated at home by herself and
her husband, but it was not until Dr. Dodgson was called in that she became an
in-patient of the Hospital. An operation was performed on the leg, and at the
beginning of this month septicaemia set in, and this ultimately resulted in her
leg having to be amputated. She, however, became worse and died.
Mr. Francis Joseph Edwin May, the licence holder of the
Alexandra Hotel, Harbour Street, said his wife was 42 years of age. They had
been at the hotel just over twelve months. On March 2nd his wife
brought a cup of tea down to him from the kitchen at about 7.30 a.m. She went
upstairs and he got up and went down into the bar. He came upstairs about 8.30
a.m., and she was then sitting on the steps leading to the kitchen. He asked
her what was the matter, and she replied “I have come a cropper” or words to
that effect. He helped her downstairs to her bedroom and persuaded her to get
into bed. She said “I have hurt my leg”. He looked at it to see if there were
any bones broken, and it hurt her when she bent it. She got into bed and he
placed hot fomentations on it and she said it eased it. They continued that
treatment for a fortnight and painted the leg with iodine. The leg was swollen
at the start, but the swelling gradually went down. He ultimately called in Dr.
Dodgson, who came to see her and said it was a hospital case. His wife was
removed by the ambulance to the Hospital. She told him at the time of the
accident that she tripped on the stairs, and he noticed that one of the wooden
stair rods was out of place.
Dr. A.C. Saunders, resident House Surgeon at the Royal
Victoria Hospital, said deceased was admitted on March 19th. She was
X rayed, and it was found that there was a transverse fracture of the left
kneecap. She was operated on the next day. On March 25th they
noticed the wound was infected. The knee was not swollen much, but on opening
it there was an old blood clot and some fluid. The infection became rapidly
worse, and ultimately she died on May 14th. She developed
septicaemia at the beginning of May, and on May 11th, following a
blood transfusion, they amputated her leg. Her condition, which was such that a
blood transfusion was necessary, remained satisfactory for the next two days,
and then on the evening of May 13th she became worse, and died at 4
a.m. the following morning from septicaemia. She was not of robust health, but
generally poor health would leave her more open to that infection. She told him
she fell downstairs.
The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the
medical evidence.
Folkestone
Herald 19-5-1934
Inquest
An inquest was held by the Folkestone Coroner (Mr. G.W.
Haines) at the Town Hall on Wednesday on Mrs. Bertha Mary May, 42, the wife of
a Folkestone licensee, who died at the Royal Victoria Hospital after an
operation.
Francis Joseph Edwin May, the licensee of the Alexandra
Hotel, Harbour Street, identified the body as that of his wife. Witness said he
had held the licence of the Alexandra Hotel since February 28th,
1933. They had been married 18 months. On the morning of March 2nd
his wife brought him a cup of tea from the kitchen, which was upstairs. She
went upstairs again, and he went down to the bar to clean up. When he came up
about 8.30 a.m. his wife was sitting on the steps leading to the kitchen. He
asked her what was the matter, and she said “I have come a “cropper””, or words
to that effect. He helped her down the stairs and she laid on the bed. He
persuaded her to get into bed. She said that she had hurt her leg. He looked at
it to see if there was any bone broken. It hurt her when she bent the leg. She
got into bed, and he put a hot fomentation on it, which she said eased the
pain. He continued doing that for a fortnight, and also painted it with iodine.
The swelling gradually went down. His wife did not get up during that time. Subsequently
he called in Dr. Dodgson, who said it was a case for the hospital, and his wife
was removed there by ambulance.
The Coroner: Did she tell you how she did it? – She
told me at the time that she tripped on the stairs. I noticed that one of the
stair rods was out of place.
DR. A.C. Saunders, resident House Surgeon at the Royal
Victoria Hospital, said deceased was admitted on March 19th. An
X-ray examination showed a transverse fracture of the left patella (kneecap).
An operation was performed the next day. On March 25th it was noted
that the wound was infected. The septic trouble increased and Mrs. May died on
May 14th. Witness said on May 11th a blood transfusion
was carried out, and deceased`s condition improved so that six hours later the
leg was amputated. Her condition remained satisfactory for the next few days,
but on the evening of May 13th her condition became worse and she
died at 4 a.m. on May 14th from septicaemia.
The Coroner: What was her general health condition? Was
it such as to render her more susceptible to this condition being set up? – She
was not in robust health; an average poor type of general health.
Did she make any statement to you about how it
happened? – She told me she had fallen down the stairs.
The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the
medical evidence.
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