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Monday, 12 September 2016

Martello 1970s - 1990s



Folkestone Gazette 21-6-1972

Local News

Transfers approved by Folkestone Licensing Justices on Wednesday included the Martello Hotel, Dover Road, from Mr. Thomas Crozier Offen to Mr. Brian Francis Ward.

Folkestone Gazette 5-2-1975

Local News

Two Folkestone public houses have won tankards in a national inter-pub competition to raise money for muscular dystrophy sufferers. The Martello Hotel raised a total of £300.25 and the Bouverie Arms, £111. A total of 550 houses throughout the country took part and raised £84,000. The winner, from Glasgow, was appropriately named the Muscular Arms. Customers there raised a mammoth £3,100, which was £800 more than their nearest rival. The contest was sponsored by Richard Attenborough.

Folkestone Gazette 15-6-1977

Local News

Not many men would walk eight miles for their mother-in-law. And fewer men would walk eight miles with their mother-in-law. But on Jubilee Monday, that’s what Chris Walters did. He walked from his local, the Martello pub, in Dover Road, to the Salutation pub, in Dover High Street, accompanied by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Madge Wigg. Chris, from Dover Road, Folkestone, was being spon­sored to provide money to buy a guide dog, and Mrs, Wigg, from St. Michael's Street, was collecting money along the way. Chris raised a total of £100, and the total pub collection for the guide dog is now £130. The aím is £700.

Folkestone Herald 30-9-1978

Local News

Thieves who broke into the Martello pub in Dover Road, Folkestone, this week escaped with an estimated £300 worth of Christmas Club money.

South Kent Gazette 18-4-1979

Local News

Real ale drinkers can now buy Tusker, a Whitbread Fremlin bitter, at the Martello Hotel,       Dover Road, Folkestone.

Folkestone Herald 18-5-1990

Local News

Sporting fundraisers at a Folkestone pub gave more than £1,000 worth of equipment to schoolchildren. Regulars at The Martello pub in Dover Road raised the money for the Mundella School through a special raffle run through the last six months.

Landlady Jean Pollock said “Everyone has been very generous, and it was a great feeling to hand the equipment over to the children”. Regulars presented sports rackets, balls and clothing and a new computer to youngsters from the school in the pub garden on Sunday afternoon. Jean added “Schools are going through a hard time at the moment and we just want to do our bit to help them”.

Kind-hearted drinkers are now saving raffle money to help out St. Peter`s School in Folkestone.

Folkestone Herald 29-12-1994

Local News

Kind-hearted landlords of a Folkestone pub have given a dolls house to a deaf unit for children. Dave, 37, and Jackie Sadler, 35, from the Martello pub, Dover Road, raised cash over six months by holding quizzes, a truck pull, a tug of war competition and keeping a collection bottle on the bar. Mrs. Sadler said “Seeing the children`s faces gave us so much pleasure; it really made it worthwhile”.

 
Watercolour by Stuart Gresswell (ex Raglan and Guildhall) 
 
 
 
 

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