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Saturday, 18 October 2014

London and Paris 1940s



Folkestone Herald 23-11-1940

Local News

At a sitting of the Folkestone Licensing Magis­trates at the Town Hall on Wed­nesday the licence of the London and Paris Hotel, Folkestone, was transferred from Mr. Claude Gar­land to Mr. Alfred Ernest Millard.

Folkestone Herald 6-12-1941

Local News

A protection order was granted by the Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday to Mr. P. Attwood in respect of the licence of the London and Paris Hotel, Harbour Street, which he is taking over.

Note: Date is at variance with More Bastions.
 

Folkestone Herald 10-1-1942

Local News

At Folkestone Licensing Trans­fer Sessions on Wednesday the licence the London and Paris Hotel was transferred from Capt. A.E. Millard, a representative of Messrs. Bass and Co., to Mr. P.W. Attwood, formerly of the Shakespeare Inn.

Folkestone Herald 9-2-1946

Local News

An attempted forcible entry of the London and Paris Hotel, Folkestone, early on Thursday morning, was foiled by the vigilance of the proprietor, Mr. Pat Attwood. Mr. Attwood, who lives on the premises with his wife and eight years old grandchild, was going to bed shortly after midnight when he heard the sound of breaking glass downstairs.

“I at once went downstairs carrying a police truncheon”, he told the Folkestone Herald, “and saw that a window in the public bar had been smashed. I saw a soldier start to pull the glass away, and then his head and arm came through. I hit him twice with the truncheon; first across the forehead and eye, and then on top of the head. I heard him groan and I went through another door into the street, but when I got there the soldier had disappeared”.

Mr. Attwood believes that the would-be intruder must have had some companions with him, because, in his opinion, he must have been too severely injured to have got away without assistance.
 

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