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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Sunday, 15 March 2015

Railway Hotel 1970s



Folkestone Herald 29-5-1971

Local News

The old Railway Hotel at the corner of Shorncliffe Road and Coolinge Lane, Folkestone, was officially re-opened with a new name - The Nailbox – on Thursday.

Inspecting the new pub sign is the licensee, Mr. Bryan Langston. Mr. Langston took over the licence just a year ago on Wednesday after moving to Folkestone from Paign­ton, Devon, where he was a hotel owner. Mr. Langston explained the story behind the pub's new name “Years ago carpenters working at the nearby firm of Hay­ward and Paramour Limited would deliberately use up nails quickly, or even throw them away, so that they would have to get new supplies from a nail box in an adjacent store. In fact it was an excuse to visit the pub for a quick pint. If they were missed, their workmates would explain, tongue in cheek, that they were at the “nail box” - the carpenters’ name for the pub”.
 
Photo from Folkestone Herald

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