White Lion (2) 1960s

Folkestone Gazette 14-3-1962

Townsman`s Diary

Mrs. Faith Goldsack, of 21, Chilham Road, Cheriton, writes to tell me that before the existing White Lion building at Cheriton there was another. “It was owned by my late husband`s grandfather, Henry Baldock”, writes Mrs. Goldsack, who states that there was a statue of a white lion in front of the inn. “I believe the statue is still in the possession of one of the family”, she continues. For many years Mrs. Goldsack had a photograph of the old inn, but it was loaned to some­one and not returned. “My late husband asked for it several times, and just before he died in August, 1957, he said he would have liked to have had the picture back. I would also like to have it for my son and his family”, adds Mrs. Goldsack.

Should the person who has the picture see this note per­haps they will be good enough to return it to Mrs. Goldsack.

Folkestone Herald 3-11-1962

Local News

An intruder, who smashed a window at the back of the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, on Wednesday afternoon, stole £13 from the till in the private bar.

Folkestone Gazette 21-11-1962

Local News

Said to have broken into a Cheriton public house and stolen £11 12/6, Michael Lynch, of Milton Barracks, Gravesend, was sent for trial by Folkestone Magistrates on Friday to Folkestone Quarter Sessions in January.

Lynch, who was remanded in custody, told the Court “If I was given the opportunity I would like to pay all this money back. I an very sorry all this has happened”.

Mr. Norman Franks, prosecuting, said that on the afternoon of October 31^st the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, was locked, but left unoccupied. At 6.05 p.m. Mrs. Irene Poole, who was looking after the hotel while the licensee, Mr. Reginald Peters, her brother, was away, returned and found that a window at the back of the bar had been smashed and glass scattered all over the floor. It was later found that money totalling £11 12/6 was missing. Lynch was interviewed subsequently by D.C. Brian Fowler. At first he denied knowing anything about the offence, but later admitted that he did. D.C. Fowler said that Lynch made a statement to him, saying that he broke a window at the White Lion Hotel at about 2.45 p.m. on October 31^st. Inside he took money from the till and also 5/- in halfpennies from a shelf. When he got outside he threw the halfpennies away. He gave £9 to his wife for housekeeping and spent the rest himself.

Folkestone Gazette 12-2-1964

Local News

First attempt to build up a pile of pennies at the White Lion, Cheriton, resulted in £11 5/- being obtained for the British Empire Cancer Campaign. The pile was knocked over by Ald. Wilfred Harris on Friday evening.

 

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Folkestone Herald 3-4-1965

Local News

Mr. William (Billy) Banks retired as barman at the London and Paris Hotel, Folkestone, on Wednesday. He had been there for the past nine years.

The customers contributed to a parting gift and pre­sented him with an electric razor on his last night at the bar. The landlord, Mr. A. Wells, gave him £10, and his wife presented him with £5.

Mr. Banks, who is 68, has been a barman for 45 years. Before going to the London and Paris he worked at the White Lion, Cheriton, and the Swan Hotel, Hythe. Mr. Banks lives with his sister in Radnor Park Cres­cent, Folkestone.

Folkestone Gazette 1-2-1967

Local News

Mrs. A. Peters, wife of the landlord of the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, pushed over £12 5s. in pennies last Tuesday. The money went to the British Empire Cancer Campaign for Research.

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Folkestone Herald 14-9-1968

Obituary

Mr. Herbert Joseph Samway, former landlord of the White Lion Hotel, Cheriton, for 22 years, died recently after a long illness. Bert Samway, as he was known by his wide circle of friends and acquaintances, had lived with his wife at Dunromin, Teddars Leas, Etchinghill, since his retirement 18 years ago. He was 76.

Mr. Samway was born in Maidstone, and began his career there as a watchmaker and jeweller. He transferred to the licensed trade in 1928, when he took his first public house, the Fleur-de-Lis, in Sandgate. After 10 years there, during which time he became a founder member of the Sandgate Branch of the British Legion, and was a member of the Castle Lodge of Free­masons, Mr. Samway moved to the White Lion, where he and his wife stayed until 1950, when Mr. Samway retired. Mr. Samway was a Knight of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.

Three years after joining the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916 he was married at Maidstone. Representatives of the British Legion and many other friends and villagers attended the funeral at Lympne Parish Church on Monday.

Folkestone Gazette 26-11-1969

Local News

Thieves knocked a hole through a brick wall at the White Lion at Cheriton in the early hours of yesterday morning – while the licensee, Mr. R.B. Peters, slept soundly upstairs. They stole cash, cigarettes and spirits worth up to £200. They broke in through a window at the rear of the premises and then knocked a hole through an inside wall to get to the bars. Said Mr. Peters “I didn`t hear a thing. I keep a dog, which must have barked, but even that did not wake me”.