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.


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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.

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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, 28 February 2015

Mechanics Arms 1960s

Photo from Folkestone Gazette 15-11-1961
Folkestone Gazette 29-11-1967

Local News

There will be no new public house in the Clarence Street, Folkestone, area when it is redeveloped by the town council. When the council made a compulsory purchase order so that it could clear and re­develop the street it pro­mised brewers that it would provide a site for an inn to replace the Mechanics Arms. Now the brewers have in­formed the council that they do not want another site. They do not think a new public house in the area would be a paying proposi­tion. The council expects soon to start demolition work in the street The council is being recommended to authorise the Town Clerk to take proceed­ings to evict tenants who do not comply with notices to quit.
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