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27th September, 2014: Folkestone Herald Reports for 1941 Added, Kentish Gazette Reports for 1804, 1807, 1808, and 1809 Added.

Shakespeare Hotel 1940s

Folkestone Herald 22-8-1942

Local News

The licence of ihr Shakespeare Hotel, Guild­hall Street, was transferred from Mr W.A. Powell, now serving in the R.A.F., to his wife, at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.

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 I saw an article on the Shakespeare `hotel, Folkestone, and recalled that it was requisitioned for the army.  My father, in the Royal Sussex, after being injured , worked as the regimental tailor in the first floor front room of the hotel.

After the war, my parents took me (I was nine years old) for a holiday at the hotel.  It had been done up, but food was very sparse in those years.

Lifeboat 1940s

Folkestone Express 22-6-1940

Local News

At the Folkestone Police Court on Tuesday, an application was made for the temporary transfer of the licence of the Lifeboat Inn, North Street, from Mr. H.S. Spencer, the licence holder, to Mr. R.J. Rawlings, the Managing Director of Messrs. Mackeson and Son, the owners. It was stated that Mr. Spencer was joining the Services, and that Mr. Chapman, the licensee of another house of the same brewers, would supervise the management of the house for the time being.

The Magistrates granted the temporary transfer.

Note: No mention of this in More Bastions.

 

Folkestone Herald 22-6-1940

Local News

A protection order was granted by the Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday in respect of the Lifeboat Inn. North Street. The temporary transfer of the licence from Mr. H.J.S. Spencer, the tenant, to Mr. R.P. Rawlings, Managing Director of Messrs. Mackeson and Company, Ltd., was agreed.

Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.       

 

Folkestone Herald 6-7-1940

Local News

A considerable amount of licensing business was transacted at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.

The licence of the Lifeboat Inn, a beer­house in North Street, was transferred from Mr. Henry Spencer to Mr R. Price Rawlings, managing director of Messrs. Mackeson's Ltd.

 

Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.

Folkestone Herald 22-11-1941

Local News

The licence of the Lifeboat Inn, North Street, was transferred to Mrs. Spencer at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.

Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.

 

Folkestone Herald 14-3-1942

Adjourned Licensing Sessions

An application by Mrs. Spencer, licensee of the Lifeboat Inn, North Street, for a music licence to enable her to use a radio set on the premises was granted.

The Magistrates granted the application, the licence to be for the ordinary licensed hours only.

Alderman W. Hollands presided with Mr. S.B. Corser and Alderman J.W. Stainer.