Thanks And Acknowledgements

My thanks go to Kent Libraries and Archives - Folkestone Library and also to the archive of the Folkestone Herald. For articles from the Folkestone Observer, my thanks go to the Kent Messenger Group. Southeastern Gazette articles are from UKPress Online, and Kentish Gazette articles are from the British Newspaper Archive. See links below.

Paul Skelton`s great site for research on pubs in Kent is also linked

Other sites which may be of interest are the Folkestone and District Local History Society, the Kent History Forum, Christine Warren`s fascinating site, Folkestone Then And Now, and Step Short, where I originally found the photo of the bomb-damaged former Langton`s Brewery, links also below.


Welcome

Welcome to Even More Tales From The Tap Room.

Core dates and information on licensees tenure are taken from Martin Easdown and Eamonn Rooney`s two fine books on the pubs of Folkestone, Tales From The Tap Room and More Tales From The Tap Room - unfortunately now out of print. Dates for the tenure of licensees are taken from the very limited editions called Bastions Of The Bar and More Bastions Of The Bar, which were given free to very early purchasers of the books.

Easiest navigation of the site is by clicking on the PAGE of the pub you are looking for and following the links to the different sub-pages. Using the LABELS is, I`m afraid, not at all user-friendly.

Contrast Note

Whilst the above-mentioned books and supplements represent an enormous amount of research over many years, it is almost inevitable that further research will throw up some differences to the published works. Where these have been found, I have noted them. This is not intended to detract in any way from previous research, but merely to indicate that (possible) new information is available.

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Saturday, 1 November 2014

Updates

1st November, 2014: Folkestone Herald Reports for 1950, 1951 and 1952 Added.

Star and Garter 1950s

Photo from Folkestone Herald

Prince of Wales 1950s



Folkestone Herald 19-1-1952

Notice

Borough of Folkestone
 
To: The Clerk to the Rating Authority for the Borough of Folkestone in the County of Kent,

The Clerk to the Licensing Justices for the Borough of Folkestone in the County of Kent,

The Superintendent of Police, Kent County Con­stabulary, Folkestone in the County of Kent

And to all whom it may concern:

I, Christopher John L. Hawkes, now residing at the Prince of Wales, Folke­stone in the County of Kent Beer-house keeper do hereby give notice that it is my in­tention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meeting for the said Borough of Folke­stone in the said County, to be holden at the Town Hall, Folke­stone aforesaid on Wednesday the 13th day of February, 1952 for the grant to me of a Justices` Licence authorising me to apply for and hold an Excise Licence to sell wine by retail at the licensed premises situate at the Prince of Wales, Folkestone, in the County of Kent, for con­sumption either on or off the premises and of which premises Mackeson and Company Limited, of Brewery, Hythe in the said County are the Lessees of whom I rent them.

Given under my hand this 7th day of January, 1952.

C.L. Hawkes.

Folkestone Herald 16-2-1952

Annual Licensing Sessions

All publican`s licences were renewed at the Folkestone Annual Licensing meeting on Wednesday.

Mr. C.J. Hawkes, licensee of the Prince of Wales, Guildhall Street was at Folkestone Annual Licensing meeting on Wednesday granted a wine licence. He said he had only been able to supply beer, and he produced a petition signed by 129 customers in support of the application for a wine licence.
 

Bouverie Hotel 1950s



Folkestone Herald 7-7-1951

Local News

Seven Folkestone public houses were granted an ex­tension of licence on weekdays until 11 p.m. and on Sundays to 10.30 p.m. until September 30th at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Mr. W.J. Mason, appearing for the applicants, said a simi­lar application had been granted to a number of hotels for the summer season and Festival of Britain. At East­bourne 44 applications of the same kind had been granted and 115 at Hastings. The ex­tension had been granted to all those who desired it in the other two towns.

The application was granted in respect of the Star Inn, Bouverie Hotel, Shakespeare Hotel, Guildhall Hotel, Prince Albert Hotel, Globe Inn, and George Inn.