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Saturday, 27 September 2014

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.

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