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 aÃm 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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