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.

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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, 9 May 2015

Red Cow 1960 - 1970s



Folkestone Gazette 22-11-1961

Local News

Further help for the British Empire Cancer Campaign has come from two Folkestone public houses during the past week. Piles of pennies were toppled over at The Red Cow and The Lifeboat, North Street. Total for the Red Cow was £10 14/11 and for the Lifeboat £22 4/1. The local committee of the British Empire Cancer Cam­paign thank all who contri­buted to such excellent results.

Folkestone Herald 12-5-1979

Local News

Children at Parkfield Special School, Folkestone, have been pre­sented with a stereo cassette and a record player by a local pub. Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Biggs, land­lord and landlady of the Red Cow, Foord Road, Folkestone, and their customers, raised nearly £150 through various events in the past year. The cassette and record player were presented to the school by the pub’s darts team at the East Cliff Pavilion, Folkestone. The children use the equipment every morning during play sessions and at other times during the day.

“The record players we have had before have been big and bulky”, teacher Mrs. Jean Vincent said. “This one is compact and easy to carry about. It also has a tape recorder for cas­settes which we did not have before. I am teaching one of the boys to use the tape himself to record his stories”.

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