Royal Oak (1) 1940s

Folkestone Herald 14-12-1940

Lighting Order

Harry Powell, of the Royal Oak Inn, North Street, summoned at Folkestone Police Court on Friday last week for a breach of the light­ing restriction regulations, told the Magistrates that he had been bombed out of his house and had been given permission by the brewers to put some of his furni­ture in the Earl Grey Inn, High Street, to prevent it getting wet. He thought he switched all the lights off, but unless someone else had been in and left one on he could not have done so.

P.C. Harman said at 8.15 p.m. on November 30^th he was in High Street when he saw a light shining from a first floor window at the Earl Grey, the window being about 2ft. 6ins. wide, and open 12 inches at the bottom.

Defendant was fined £1.

Folkestone Herald 16-7-1949

Local News

Orders for the special removal of full licences from derelict public houses in the Harbour district to hotels in the centre of the town were approved at the Folkestone Transfer Sessions on Wednesday. All the licences had been in suspense.

The licence of the South Foreland, Seagate Street, was removed to the Clifton Hotel, Clifton Gardens; the licence of the Alexandra Hotel, Harbour Street, to the Carlton Hotel; and the licence of the Royal Oak Inn, North Street, to the Central Hotel, Radnor Park Road.

Mr. W.J. Mason, applying for the removal of the full licence from the Royal Oak to the Central Hotel, said it had been in suspense. Application had been made to the Licensing Planning Committee and subsequently arrangements were made with Messrs. Fremlins for the purchase of the full licence, subject to it being transferred in accordance with the Order made by the Planning Minister under licensing planning removals. Plans for alterations to the Central Hotel had been approved.

The Clerk (Mr. C. Rootes) said the order for the removal had been approved by the Ministry.

Mr. Walter Bateman, manager of the Central Hotel, said it was hoped that the alterations to the building would be completed by the end of the month. It was intended to use the licence in the hotel until the building work had been completed.