Folkestone Gazette
25-4-1973
Local News
Hooligans smashed six windows in Folkestone and Hythe over the bank
holiday.
A temporary bus stop sign was thrown through a window of the Bouverie
Hotel in Bouverie Road East. Landlord Mr. R.P. Lord estimated the cost of replacing the glass at
about £100.
Folkestone Herald
8-4-1978
Local News
Thieves with an eye for a quick profit escaped with £26 from a Folkestone
town centre pub at the weekend. They did it by conning a fruit machine. It
happened at the Bouverie Hotel where the tricksters achieved an astonishing 500
per cent profit by feeding 10 pence pieces into the machine’s 50 pence change
slot. For every 10 pence spent they got five in
return.
A spokesman at the Hotel said this week “The police say that people doing
this pick one town at a time. However vigilant local landlords are there are times when we get busy and
these people can get away with it”.
Chairman of the local
Licensed Victuallers Association, Mr. John Mees, said he had not received any
complaints about the fruit machine fiddlers. But,
he said, he was thinking of raising the matter at a meeting of the LVA.
South Kent Gazette
3-10-1979
Local News
Bob Lord had an open
heart operation earlier this year which saved his life. And thanks to
the staff at the National Heart Operation Hospital in London he celebrated his
family’s 50th year at the Bouverie Hotel, Folkestone, last week. Family,
friends and relatives from Britain and Holland gathered to toast the special
golden jubilee. And nurses at the London hospital telephoned to
congratulate them.
On September 24, 1929,
Bob’s father Percy took over as landlord of the hotel. When he died
in 1968 Bob carried on the business with his wife Joan. Over the years
the couple have seen many changes in the town but the hotel has remained the
same. It still has its five original bars — lounge saloon,
bottle and jug, public and smoke room.
One of the oldest and
most regular customers, Mr Ely Ivory, who was landlord before the
Lord family took over, was also at the hotel to join in the festivities. Other
regulars, including members of the Regents football team, of which Mr Lord is
president, gave the couple gifts and thanked them for their hospitality over
the years. The Lord children, Peter, aged 29, and Penny, aged
26, came down from London for the jubilee. Peter, a former Harvey
Grammar School head boy, is now a director of a computer business, Penny is a
stewardess on Concorde.
Bob has traced the
history of the hotel back to 1853 when it was a coach inn. He still remembers
the last horse leaving the premises in 1949.
“At one time there used
to be stables for more than 30 horses here”, he said.
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| Photo from South Kent Gazette |
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