Folkestone
Express 12-1-1935
Local News
The death occurred yesterday with tragic suddenness of
Mr. John Hawkins, of Haseldene, Capel-le-Ferne, near Folkestone.
Mr. Hawkins, who was 64, was walking back to Mr. A.C.
Aird`s farm at the Valiant Sailor, after having been home for breakfast, when
he suddenly collapsed at the side of the road.
Passengers in a passing bus on its way to Folkestone
saw Mr. Hawkins stagger and fall, and after the bus had been stopped passengers
went to his assistance. He was unconscious and an ambulance was summoned, but
on arrival at the Royal Victoria Hospital it was found that Mr. Hawkins was
already dead.
The deceased was head cowman to Mr. A.C. Aird, who told
the Folkestone Herald yesterday afternoon that he could not speak too highly of
him. “He had been employed on the farm since 1895”, Mr. Aird said, “and the
only occasion on which he had been absent from work during the whole of the
time was a few days last year when he had influenza. He was a most
conscientious worker, and I shall miss him very much”.
Mr. Hawkins leaves a widow, a daughter, and two sons,
one of whom is in the Royal Navy.
The facts of his death have been reported to the
Folkestone Coroner (Mr. G.W. Haines) who will decide whether an inquest is
necessary.
Folkestone
Express 19-1-1935
Local News
On Friday Mr. John Hawkins, of Haseldene, Capel le
Ferne, died with tragic suddenness.
Mr. Hawkins, who was 64 years of age, was in the employ
of Mr. A.C. Aird, of the Valiant Sailor, as head cowman, had been home to have
his breakfast. He was walking back to his work, and when on the main
Folkestone-Dover road he collapsed. The passengers on a bus coming from Dover
to Folkestone saw him lying in the road, and they went to his assistance. He
was found to be unconscious, and he was rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital,
where on examination life was pronounced to be extinct.
Mr. Hawkins had been employed on the farm for forty
years and was held in high esteem not only by Mr. Aird and his fellow workmen,
but by everyone with whom he came in contact.
He leaves a widow, a daughter and two sons with whom
the deepest sympathy will be felt in their sad and tragic bereavement.
The facts were communicated to the Folkestone Coroner
(Mr. W.G. Haines), who did not deem an inquest to be necessary.
Folkestone Herald
6-8-1938
Local News
Television has come to Folkestone, and for the
next week any member of the public who cares to visit the Tea Rooms of the
Valiant Sailor is invited by Messrs. Bobby and Co., Ltd., to witness a free
demonstration. These demonstrations will commence at 9 each evening, from tonight
until the end of next week, excluding tomorrow.
For months Mr. S.W. Gittins, Radio Manager for
Messrs. Bobby, with Mr. J. Sweatman, has been experimenting in television
reception at the top of Dover Hill, and on Thursday afternoon the results of
his work were demonstrated to a little group of people in the Tea Rooms of the
Valiant Sailor.
The B.B.C. television programme was received
on two Pye teleceivers, and the audience were able to sit back in their seats,
as they would at a cinema, and see an excellent performance of J.B.
Priestley’s play, “Laburnum Grove”. Reception throughout was constant, the picture
being unfading and of good strength. There was some local interference, caused
by the temporal nature of the aerial, but Mr. Gittins expressed his great
satisfaction with the results obtained. Mr. W.H. Storey, Radio Manager of Messrs. Pye,
said he was amazed at the results obtained.
Unfortunately the aerial is on the wrong side
of the road to obtain perfect results. The aerial, pointing direct to the
transmitting station, must also point down the hill, and the disturbance caused
by cars running up with their engines racing causes considerable interference
at times.
A carrier wave, too, which Mr. Gittins
announced, probably came from Hawkinge Aerodrome, also interfered with the
picture, though only very occasionally. During the afternoon Mr. Gittins gave a brief
resume of the progress made in television, its evolution and development, and
made an interesting statement about the possibilities of reception in
Folkestone.
“If we were 200 yards back off the road”, he
said, “or on the other side of the road, this interference would be reduced by
95 per cent. Forty to fifty per cent, of the residents of Folkestone, apart from those
living in low-lying parts of the town, should be m a position to get television
results. People
living in the high parts of Saltwood, Hythe, and Folkestone, especially those on the Crete Road, at
the western end of the Leas, in Earls Avenue, and in districts moderately quiet
and high-lying, could be equipped with television and could expect first class
results”.
This was a local history-making occasion on Thursday afternoon, for this
was the first satisfactory public demonstration of television to be given in
Folkestone, There may be seen in the near future a small plate on the wall of
the tea rooms of the Valiant Sailor, stating that good television reception was
shown to the public for the first time in the town there. It may be possible, it was announced,
for the public of Folkestone to see the last Test Match televised.
Those present at the demonstration included Mr. Herbert Bobby and Mr.
Wilfred Bobby. Messrs.
Bobby and Co. are willing to give advice to any person as to the possibility of
reception in his locality.
Folkestone Herald
16-3-1946
Adjourned Licensing Sessions
A number of applications were granted at the Folkestone adjourned
annual licensing sessions at the Town Hall on Wednesday. The Mayor (Alderman
W. Hollands) presided, with Mr. R.G. Wood and Alderman J.W. Stainer.
Mr.
B. H. Bonniface, representing Mr. W Eyres, licensee of the Valiant Sailor Inn,
applied for a music and dancing licence in respect of the pavilion there. Mr.
Bonniface said that when Mr. Aird was licensee it was quite a fashionable thing
in Folkestone for people to go to the Valiant Sailor and have strawberry teas
there in the summer months. The Pavilion had been inspected by the Borough
Engineer and the chief of the fire service, and Mr. Eyres was prepared to carry
out their recommendations, one of which referred to the exit. Continuing, Mr.
Bonniface said there was a permanent military camp adjoining the premises. The
soldiers were there for three or four weeks, and the Commanding Officer of the
establishment was anxious to keep the young trainees under his own eye as much
as possible. Mr. Eyres had been asked if the men could use his pavilion for
dancing and as a place where they could bring their lady friends. Mr. Eyres,
also, was anxious in the summer to provide teas in the pavilion and to arrange
tea dances there. It was not intended to have a bar in the pavilion, although
there was nothing to prevent the licensee from doing so. The Magistrates
granted the licence from 2 p.m. until 1 a.m.
Folkestone Herald 22-6-1946
Local
News
Windows
and door in the vicinity of the Valiant Sailor, Dover Hill, when a heavy
explosion occurred on the cliff at the top od Dover Hill on Wednesday
afternoon. The explosion, which in the words of Mr. William Eyres, of the
Valiant Sailor, sounded “just like a bomb going off”, occurred when troops from
a nearby Royal Artillery unti were engaged in clearing barbed wire. “My wife
and I were hanging curtains in the tea pavilion”, Mr. Eyres told a Herald
reporter, “when suddenly a terrific bang made us duck just as we used to during
the war. The door was blown off its hinges and several windows were blown in”.
The front window of a house 200 yards away from thescene of the explosion was
smashed.
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