Folkestone Herald 12-2-1966
Annual Licensing Sessions
The number of cases
of drivers unfit to drive through drink trebled last year, it was reported at
the annual licensing meeting at Folkestone on Wednesday.
In his annual report
Chief Superintendent W. Pearce said “This is a position which cannot be
accepted with complacency, and the cooperation of everyone, including
licensees, is necessary to bring about an improvement”. The number of cases rose from three in
1964 to nine last year.
The number of full licences in the district increased by three to 133. One more club had been registered,
bringing the number to 33. The
number of drunks prosecuted was 24, the highest since 1961. Of these two were
females. Half the total was local residents.
The Chief Superintendent said that licensed premises in the borough had
been generally well conducted during the year, but the number of convictions for
drunkenness had remained comparatively high. “Four young persons were prosecuted in respect of
the consumption and supply of intoxicating liquor to persons under 18”, he
said. He added that
licensees must be on guard to prevent this type of offence. Two licensees had been warned by
the police for minor breaches of the licensing laws.
At the meeting the following licence was transferred: The Black Bull
Hotel, Canterbury Road, from Mr. E.E.G. Mansell to Mr. W. R. Scarbrow.
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.
Folkestone Herald
3-11-1979
Local News
A window was smashed when the Black Bull public house in
Black Bull Road, Folkestone, was broken into on Tuesday night. The float of
about £30 was stolen from the bar till.
South Kent Gazette
17-2-1982
Annual Licensing Sessions
Publicans` applications for transfer agreed by the Bench
include: The Black Bull, Folkestone (music and dancing); Bouverie Arms,
Folkestone; Honest Lawyer, Folkestone; Old Harbour Crab and Oyster House
(extension to cover restaurant area); Royal George, Folkestone. Approval of
plans to alter Folkestone`s Pullman Wine Bar was given.
Folkestone Herald
12-3-1982
Local News
Regulars at Folkestone’s Black Bull pub are on cue
to break the world non-stop pool playing record in a bid to raise cash for
kidney victim Lee Prothero. Yesterday morning John Winyard and Jack Cathrew chalked their cues and
got down to the business of raking in the cash for the £5,000 appeal. Plucky schoolboy Lee, 13, was on hand
to see the two men break off in an aim to beat 207 hours and earn a spot in the
Guinness Book of Records. The pair are allowed a five-minute break each hour and if all goes well
will be breaking open the champagne sometime next Saturday.
According to landlady Mrs Christine McAllister,
both men are feeling pretty confident. “If they carry on the way they have been
I’m sure they’ll make it”, she said. One of the drawbacks each man faces is a ban on
alcohol during the record attempt because, says Christine, it’s likely to send
them to sleep and destroy their chances. “I’m expecting our takings to go down”,
she quipped. Folkestone Lions, too, have joined the appeal with a £250 cheque
delivered to the home of appeal organiser Mrs. Gloria Stone, in Downs Road,
Folkestone.
South Kent Gazette
9-3-1983
Local News
Clerical assistant Gillian Godden had a nasty experience
tucking into a jar of seafood. Floating among the cockles in her night-time
snack was a cigarette butt. Mrs. Godden, of Thanet Gardens, Folkestone, had
difficulty opening the jar, which she bought at the lounge bar of the Black
Bull Hotel, Folkestone, on November 4. After eating a couple of cockles she
noticed they had a strange taste. Making a closer examination of the jar she
found the filter tip end of a cigarette.
And on Thursday Folkestone Magistrates found the firm
which sells the jars Guilty of selling sub-standard food.
Bottling firm Leslie A. Parsons and Sons, of Burry
Port, Dyfed, Wales, was fined £50 and ordered to pay £25 costs. Managing director Mr.
Leslie Parsons wrote a letter to the court,
pleading Guilty to the offence. He asked for the case to go ahead without him
appearing because of the distance from Wales to Folkestone.
Mr Michael O’Flaherty, prosecuting for Kent County
Council, was taken to Folkestone`s Trading Standards offices and sent for
analysis. This showed that the cigarette had been smoked, he added.
Giving evidence, Mr. James Bell, a trading
standards officer in Folkestone, said he telephoned the firm`s managing
director, who accepted the analyst`s report.
In his letter Mr. Parsons said his company had been
going since the 1940s and sells about three million jars a year. Out of more
than 90 million jars sold it has only been prosecuted once before, he said.
When cockles are collected from the sea bed there is a lot of “bric-a-brac”
among them. The factory has a rigorous sorting method and the cockles are
inspected before being sterilised and bottled, he added.
Mr. O`Flaherty said he had no information of any
previous convictions and as far as he knows the company has an “unblemished
record”.
Folkestone Herald
13-4-1984
Local News
A Cockney night with a Pearly King and Queen is being
held to raise money for charity. As part of a nationwide campaign Folkestone`s
Black Bull pub will be aiming to raise cash for Muscular Dystrophy. On May 12
landlord Pat Gill hopes to hold competitions to encourage customers to dress up
in Cockney style.
Folkestone Herald
10-8-1984
Local News
A pub has been honoured by the Muscular Dystrophy Group
of Great Britain for its fundraising work for the charity. Local Chairman David
Miller presented the Black Bull in Canterbury Road, Folkestone, with an
engraved tankard and certificate signed by Sir Richard Attenbourough on Friday.
Landlord Pat Gill has raised £464 for research into the muscle-wasting disease
in the past three months.
Folkestone Herald
20-11-1987
Local News
Beer drinkers in Folkestone have passed a bitter
milestone in pint prices. This week the Good Pub Guide book was frothed up over
Kent regulars digging deeper into their pockets than most of Britain`s
pub-goers. The guide criticises a one third increase in Surrey, Sussex and Kent
during the year “pressing towards the £1-a-pint barrier which London has
passed”. But some pubs in Folkestone broke the barrier up to two years ago and
finding a brew in the area for less is a problem.
Folkestone landlords this week criticised the guide for
being out of touch and blamed high rates plus brewery increases for the pricey
cost of their pints.
Geoff Gosford, landlord of the Lifeboat in The Durlocks,
said “Prices are quite high, but so are the overheads. Folkestone rates are the
same as some London boroughs. Our beers can be expensive, but it is all real
ale. We recently had the legendary Conqueror here as a guest ale. It was £1.28
a pint but three pints of that beer was worth nine of any other. I haven`t had
one complaint about my prices”.
Eileen Lewis, landlady of the Guildhall on The Bayle (£1
a pint) said “Some pubs may take advantage and raise prices higher. But the
majority are very conscious of the cost of beer to their customers. It is not
publicans clamouring for expensive beer, it is breweries”.
Ken Holletts, landlord of the British Lion (£1 a pint)
said “I have not raised the price of beer since becoming the landlord. All
increases have been imposed by the brewery. Our prices are reasonable, and as
cheap as you`ll find in the town centre”.
Black Bull landlady Maureen Coles in Canterbury Road
(prices again in the £1 range) said “Rates and electricity and so on are all
expensive and brewery increases take their toll”.
A spokesman for Whitbread, a major brewery supplying
Folkestone, said “Beer prices are cheaper in other parts of the country, but
Folkestone is no different, really, to most other parts of the South East”.
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