Folkestone Herald
21-7-1951
Local News
After 42 years as off-licence premises, The Morehall, at
the corner of Cheriton Road and Coombe Road, has become a fully licensed house.
Considerable reconstruction and alteration work has been carried out, and the house is now most
comfortable and well equipped. Messrs. Ind, Coope and Allsopp, the well-known
brewers, entertained a number of guests at the opening ceremony on Thursday
last week. Ald. E.P. Bridgland declared the premises open. The guests included:
Aldermen W. Hollands, J.P., and W. Davis, Mr. P V. Gurr, J.P., Group Captain
B.G. Carfoot, O.B.E. (Director of Messrs. Ind Coope and Allsopp), Mr. A.H.
Hopper (Stroud District Manager.) and Mr. J.L. Le Fanu (Commercial Manager).
Group Captain Carfoot said the site of the new house had been laid out by
the Morehall Estate, and in 1909 it became an off-licence.
As a company, he continued, they were seeking to provide an ideal house for the public.
The public wanted a place
which they could use as a
social centre, or where they could take their friends for drinks. “The trade are always anxious to have
good houses”, he said. “Licences and economic factors hold back the hopes of
the trade, and we are compelled to go slowly".
Ald. Bridgland said the people of Folkestone
believed that only the best was good enough, and the Morehall attained that
object. “This is a red letter day for Morehall”, he remarked. “This is
something that has been wanted for a long time”.
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Folkestone Herald
29-9-1951
Local News
Accommodation for children is provided at the "Morehall”, Cheriton
Road, Folkestone, where
the manager (Mr. H.H. Ridgers) has arranged a room with games and
other pastimes, and toys. The room, which adjoins the lounge of the
hotel, is furnished in bright and gay colours.
Folkestone Herald
16-2-1952
Annual Licensing Sessions
All publican`s licences were renewed at the
Folkestone Annual Licensing meeting on Wednesday.
The licence of the Morehall was at Folkestone Annual
Licensing meeting on Wednesday transferred from Mr. A.H. Hopper, former
district manager of Messrs. Ind Coope and Allsopp, to the new district manager,
Mr. Peter B. Balean.
Folkestone Herald
14-11-1953
Local News
Transfer of the licence of the Morehall to Mr. Charles
Dunwell was confirmed at Folkestone transfer sessions on Wednesday.
Folkestone Herald
22-10-1955
Inquest
A verdict of “Death by misadventure” was returned at the
inquest on Mrs. Margaret Coleman (45), of Daenfair, Mill Lane, Hawkinge, which
was held at St. Mary`s Hospital, Etchinghill, on Wednesday.
Mr. William Richard Coleman, of Daenfair, Mill Lane,
Hawkinge, gave evidence of identification. He said deceased had not been well
for some time past and two different kinds of sleeping pills had been
prescribed for her. Sometimes she took more than the prescribed dose of the
tablets and he often remonstrated with her for doing so. She was inclined to
worry, especially about their financial situation, and he had heard her make
such remarks as “I wish I were dead”, but she had not meant it seriously. He
stated that last Saturday morning she went to work in Folkestone as usual and
returned in the afternoon. That evening she again went to work, but later, when
he was playing darts in the White Horse, he was surprised to hear that she was
in the bar. He went to see what the trouble was and she told him she had “just
walked out”. She gave no explanation. She had drunk quite a bit but was quite
sober. “When we reached the house she went straight to her bedroom, while I
stayed in the lounge”, he continued. “I filled the hot water bottles and then
went down to the bathroom. When I returned she told me she had taken six
tablets and was going to get a good night`s sleep. She had a very comfortable
night and slept until 11 a.m. the next day. At about 12 noon she told him she
was going out to see about another job; when she returned she had been
drinking, but was fairly sober. She went straight to bed. When I saw her about
three o`clock she was sitting up in bed smoking a cigarette. I said “You
haven`t taken any more of those tablets, have you?” and she said “I haven`t
because the box was empty”. I told her to let me know truthfully if she had
taken any more, but she insisted she had not. I told her I did not believe her
and would send for the doctor, but she said I would only make a fool of myself.
I then wanted her to drink some salt water and she said I was just being
silly”. When he next saw her, she was sleeping peacefully, said witness. He
looked in on her again at about four o’clock and she was still sleeping. Just
before five he made some tea and took her in a cup. Witness added “I discovered
something was radically wrong – she was hardly breathing and I could not wake
her”. He tried artificial respiration for a time and then rushed out and
dialled 999.
Dr. Patrick Frank Osborne, Thorndean, Swingfield,
said he prescribed two types of barbiturate tablets for Mrs. Coleman. He did
not remember warning her about the effect of alcohol on these tablets.
Dr. Ian Benson Morris, Canterbury Hospital, who
performed the post mortem, said death was due to combined alcohol and
barbiturate poisoning. He could not say whether the amount of barbiturate would
have been enough to kill her without the alcohol.
Mr. Frank Shaw, manager of the Morehall, Cheriton,
said Mrs. Coleman was his head barmaid. The first he knew about her going was
when his wife told him on Saturday evening she had sent for a taxi as she was
leaving. She had seemed quiet and “under the weather”.
Returning a verdict of “Death by misadventure”, the
foreman of the jury said they were of the opinion that doctors should inform
their patients that it was dangerous to mix alcohol with such drugs.
The following application for transfer of licence was granted by the
Folkestone Licensing Magistrates on Wednesday: Morehall Hotel, Cheriton, from Mr. M.J. Robinson to Mr. A.H. Bundy
Folkestone Gazette
17-4-196
Local News
South Kent Gazette
22-11-1978
Local News
Empty tankards brought few cheers at four Folkestone pubs
when beer kegs and bottles ran dry. Regulars had to make do with fruit juice
and spirits as a result of a brewery workers` strike at Ind Coope. The brewery
supplies local pubs including the Black Bull, Nailbox, Morehall and Railway
Bell from its Aylesham depot. After missing three deliveries, pub supplies
dwindled last week to nothing.
One landlord said his trade had been cut by 50 per cent, and another claimed his darts league and pool players had
turned to lemonade and Coke.
Now customers will be
finding what their right arms are for again. The 14
workers at Aylesham agreed to return to work yesterday. A spokesman for the brewery said the strike by a total of
1,750 production and distribution employees was over a pay claim. Most of the other workers agreed to return to work on
Monday.
South Kent Gazette
28-3-1979
Local News
Police are hunting several men who attacked a barman in
Cheriton on Saturday night. But fears that workmen from the M20 motorway
construction site could be responsible have been scotched by both police and
local landlords. The incident happened at 11.10 p.m. in the Victoria public
house, Risborough Lane, when
barman Brian Brown told customers it was time to leave.
A police spokesman said that Mr. Brown, who lives
in Christchurch Road, Folkestone, received a bleeding nose, cut gums and
facial bruising. “Navvies”
from the Danton Lane, Cheriton, motorway site were blamed for the assault
because the assailants had not been identified and one spoke with an Irish
accent.
However, Police Inspector
Peter Ford told the Gazette “We’ve had no trouble at all from the site. If the
situation with site workers continues as it is then we shall be perfectly happy”.
Mr. Brown was unavailable
for comment at the time of going to press but the Victoria’s landlord said
“This is the first time we’ve had trouble in the pub since I came here three
years ago”.
Speculation that motorway
workers could be a possible source of violence was scotched by landlords at: The
White Lion in Cheriton High Street - “So far they’ve been perfectly well
behaved in here”.; The Morehall, Cheriton Road “Nice lads ... no
trouble whatsoever”.; The Nailbox, Shorncliffe Road – “A bit noisy, that`s
all”.; The Cherry Pickers, Ashley Avenue, Cheriton – “We`ve had a few in, but
they`ve been perfectly O.K.”.
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