Bouverie Arms 1940s

Folkestone Herald 28-6-1941

Local News

At the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday the licence of the Bouverie Arms, Cheriton Road, was transferred from Mr. Harold F. Funnell, the licensee, to Mr. R.P. Rawlings, Managing Director of Mackeson and Co. Ltd.

Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.

Folkestone Herald 4-10-1941

Local News

The licence of the Bouverie Arms, Cheriton Road, was transferred to Mr. A.C. Freeman at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.

Folkestone Herald 16-1-1943

Local News

A theft from a public house was described at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday, when Dvr. John Brown was charged with stealing an ornamental cigarette lighter, valued 25s., the property of Arthur C. Freeman.

Mrs. Winifred A. Naylor, Bouverie Arms, Chertiton Road, housekeeper to Mr. Freeman, the licensee, said on Saturday evening there was an earthen­ware cigarette lighter in the bar two or three feet from the public side. There were two soldiers in the bar during the evening, Brown being one of the two. Later she found that the lighter was missing.

Sidney Melbourne Mooring, 143, Cheriton Road, a main­tenance engineer, said he was in the public bar of the Bouverie Arms on Saturday evening. He saw two soldiers come in and at 9.55 Brown reached over with his left hand towards the till and took the lighter which he put in his left hand pocket. Witness asked Brown to return the lighter and defendant turned round and told him to mind his own business. Brown and the other soldier were not drunk, but they were on the merry side.

Det. Const. Dearden said that morning he saw Brown and took him into custody. He said “I had too much to drink and was taking it (the lighter) back this weekend. The lighter is in my kitbag”.

Defendant, who pleaded Guilty, said he did not know it was a cigarette lighter, otherwise he would not have touched it. He was very sorry.

The Magistrates fined Brown £2, the Chairman (Alderman J.W. Stainer) telling him that the offence might have landed him in prison. “If you can't go into a public house without taking things which don’t belong to you, you had better stay outside”, added the Chairman.