Saturday, 27 September 2014
Updates
27th September, 2014: Folkestone Herald Reports for 1941 Added, Kentish Gazette Reports for 1804, 1807, 1808, and 1809 Added.
Shakespeare Hotel 1940s
Folkestone Herald
22-8-1942
Local News
The licence of ihr Shakespeare Hotel, Guildhall
Street, was transferred from Mr W.A. Powell, now serving in the R.A.F., to his
wife, at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.
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I saw an article on the Shakespeare `hotel, Folkestone, and recalled that it was requisitioned for the army. My father, in the Royal Sussex, after being injured , worked as the regimental tailor in the first floor front room of the hotel.
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I saw an article on the Shakespeare `hotel, Folkestone, and recalled that it was requisitioned for the army. My father, in the Royal Sussex, after being injured , worked as the regimental tailor in the first floor front room of the hotel.
After the war, my
parents took me (I was nine years old) for a holiday at the hotel. It
had been done up, but food was very sparse in those years.
Lifeboat 1940s
Folkestone Express
22-6-1940
Local News
At the Folkestone Police Court on Tuesday, an
application was made for the temporary transfer of the licence of the Lifeboat
Inn, North Street, from Mr. H.S. Spencer, the licence holder, to Mr. R.J.
Rawlings, the Managing Director of Messrs. Mackeson and Son, the owners. It was
stated that Mr. Spencer was joining the Services, and that Mr. Chapman, the
licensee of another house of the same brewers, would supervise the management
of the house for the time being.
The Magistrates granted the temporary transfer.
Note: No mention of
this in More Bastions.
Folkestone Herald
22-6-1940
Local News
A protection order was granted by the Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday
in respect of the Lifeboat Inn. North Street. The temporary transfer of the licence from Mr. H.J.S.
Spencer, the tenant, to Mr. R.P. Rawlings, Managing Director of Messrs.
Mackeson and Company, Ltd., was agreed.
Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.
Folkestone Herald
6-7-1940
Local News
A considerable amount of licensing business was transacted at the Folkestone
Police Court on Wednesday.
The licence of the Lifeboat Inn, a beerhouse in North Street, was
transferred from Mr. Henry Spencer to Mr R. Price Rawlings, managing director
of Messrs. Mackeson's Ltd.
Note: This does not
appear in More Bastions.
Folkestone Herald
22-11-1941
Local News
The licence of the Lifeboat Inn, North Street, was
transferred to Mrs. Spencer at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.
Note: This does not appear in More
Bastions.
Folkestone Herald
14-3-1942
Adjourned Licensing Sessions
An application by Mrs. Spencer, licensee of the Lifeboat
Inn, North Street, for a music licence to enable her to use a radio set on the
premises was granted.
The Magistrates granted the application, the licence to be for the ordinary
licensed hours only.
Alderman W. Hollands presided with Mr. S.B. Corser and Alderman J.W.
Stainer.
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