Folkestone Herald 29-7-1950
Local News
Mr. and Mrs. H. Samway retired
on Tuesday after 21 years in the licensing trade.
They spent nine years at
the Fleur de Lis, Sandgate, and have just completed 12 years, to the day, at
the White Lion, Cheriton. Mrs. Samway said that she and her husband had spent
only one week and five days together on holiday in 27 years. “We shall be sorry
to leave our customers, as we have been very happy here, but we feel we need
and nave earned a rest”.
They have received
presents from customers and from clubs which hold their meetings at the hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. Samway reside
in Tedders Leas Road, Etchinghill.
Folkestone Herald
23-3-1957
Local News
Three days before he was due to sail for the Far East,
Pte. James William Grier, R.A.M.C., Royal Military Hospital, Shorncliffe,
pleaded Guilty at Folkestone Magistrates` Court on Tuesday to stealing a
tankard from the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton.
“I was foolish”, he said. “I had too much to drink, and I
do not know what made me take it”.
An R.A.M.C. officer
said Grier took the tankard after attending a farewell party.
Chief Inspector L.A.
Hadlow told the magistrates that on February 23rd Mr. William Floydd
Care went to the hotel, where he was a regular customer and had his own
tankard. He left at 10.20 p.m. and when the barmaid collected the dirty glasses
the tankard was missing.
Giving Grier a
conditional discharge on payment of 15/- costs, the Chairman (Ald. W. Hollands)
told him “Don’t do such a silly thing again”.
Folkestone Herald
16-11-1957
Local News
Plans of proposed alterations at the White Lion Hotel,
Cheriton, were approved by the Justices at Folkestone Licensing Sessions on
Wednesday.
Folkestone Herald
31-5-1958
Local News
The licence of the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, was
transferred at Folkestone Transfer Sessions on Wednesday, from Mr. T.E. Moore
to Mr. R.B. Peters, former electrician, of Rochester.
Note: No record of Moore in More
Bastions.
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