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Saturday, 25 October 2014

Brewery Tap 1940s



Folkestone Herald 9-1-1943

Local News

At a licensing transfer sessions at the Town Hall, Folkestone, on Wednesday, the licence of the Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, was transferred from Mr. Albert Taylor to Mr. R.P. Rawlings, a Director of Hythe Brewery.

Note: Not mentioned in More Bastions.

Folkestone Herald 6-1-1945

Local News

The licence of the Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, which has been in suspense since September, 1940, when the premises were closed through damage caused by enemy action, was at Folkestone Transfer Sessions on Wednesday transferred from Mr. R.P. Rawlings, Managing Director of Messrs. Mackeson and Co., Ltd., to Mr. A. Taylor, the former tenant.
Folkestone Herald 24-5-1947

Obituary

Mr. Albert Taylor, of the Imperial Brewery Tap, Tontine Street, one of Folke­stone’s oldest and best known licensees, died after an illness of a few days on Thursday last week. He was 69.

Born at Littlebourne, Mr.Taylor came to Folkestone in 1906, when He took over the management of the Brewery Tap.

He had a narrow escape from death in the 1914-18 war. Dur­ing the disastrous air raid on Tontine Street in the spring of 1917 he was in the Brewery Tap; although premises on either side and opposite were seriously damaged, and his own premises suffered consid­erably by blast, he escaped uninjured. During the last war he moved with his wife to Devonshire, her former home. After a so­journ of two years there, they took up residence in Hertford­shire where they remained for three years before returning to Folkestone.

The funeral took place at Hawkinge on Wednesday.
 
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