South Kent Gazette
8-11-1978
Local News
A man declared by the
court to be “an habitual drunkard”, last week broke an order prohibiting him
from entering licensed premises in Shepway and was fined £20.
John Paterson of 4
Spring Terrace, Folkestone, was fined £5 by Folkestone Magistrates for being
drunk outside the Imperial Hotel in Folkestone and a further £15 for breaching
a court order not to buy or attempt to buy alcohol in Shepway for three years.
In his defence
Paterson said “I thought I had to sign
papers before the order was forwarded to the Chief Constable and became binding.”
The court clerk told
him that this was not the case.
South Kent Gazette
30-9-1981
Local News
It must have been a hairy experience for three regulars
at the Imperial pub on Saturday. For when Tony Plummer, Tom Moon and Paul
Stutchbury emerged from the scissors of Folkestone hairdresser Mr. Bob Quaife,
half of their respective beards or moustaches had gone. But the three seemed
fairly happy about the situation. They are prepared to spend 21 days in the
lop-sided state to raise money for Ashford`s William Harvey Hospital. Initial
volunteer Tom said about £250 in sponsorship money has already been promised.
South Kent Gazette
9-6-1982
Local News
Fifty pounds was stolen from the till of the
Imperial pub, Black Bull Road, Folkestone, between midnight and 8.40 a.m. on
Monday.
South Kent Gazette
9-2-1983
Local News
A publican who drove his car at night with no
lights after he had drunk more than double the legal limit was fined a total of
£175 last week.
Victor Clark, 58, who runs the Imperial pub in
Black Bull Road, Folkestone, pleaded Guilty to the two offences. Clark, of
Aerodrome Road, Hawkinge, was also banned from driving for a year for the
drinking charge. Folkestone Magistrates ordered him to pay £19.40 doctor`s fees
on Tuesday.
Inspector Peter Hopkins, prosecuting, said Clark
was stopped in Black Bull Road by a traffic officer because he did not have his
lights on. The officer noticed Clark smelt of alcohol and asked him to give a
breath test, which proved positive. At the police station a specimen of blood
was taken and later found to contain 184 milligrams of alcohol to 100
milligrams of blood.
Clark said he must have accidentally put the lights
off and did not notice because it was a well-lit road.
Folkestone Herald
24-6-1988
Local News
Pint-size grandmother Jeanne Robey is clean, well-dressed
and politely spoken. Yet she is
banned from at least five pubs in Folkestone alone. As soon as she walks into the bar,
customers and publicans threaten her, call her names, refuse to serve her, and
then demand that she leaves. Her crime? The 5ft 2ins gran works on a P&O cross-Channel ferry.
The 46-year-old grandma was a geriatric nurse for eight years before accepting
a job with the ferry company last May when money ran short.
Now, the extra cash in her pocket has meant that Jeanne has to pay
heavily in another way. Once a bar assistant and regular in a
handful of pubs in Folkestone’s town centre, she is now booted out of those
same drinking holes, threatened with vicious beatings and vulgar jibes.
This week, after hearing of her story, the Herald insisted on checking
the facts.
On Monday, usually a quiet night, Jeanne and I walked into The Earl Grey
in the Old High Street and quietly asked for a drink. Minutes later we were
hand-clapped out of the pub. Even before we reached the counter, a
young man sitting in the comer got up, and told the landlady “Don’t serve her,
she’s a scab”. The landlady then refused to serve us,
saying “You’re not welcome in here. I’m on strike and it’s against my morals to
serve you”. We left.
At the Portland in Langhome Gardens, landlord Brian Godfrey immediately
refused to serve us, saying “Jeanne, you know you’re not allowed in here”. When asked
why, he said “She causes too much aggravation”.
But the worst treatment came at the Bouverie Arms at Cheriton Road,
Folkestone. As soon as we walked through the door, a customer sitting near the
doorway, yelled “F.... scab” at Jeanne. As we walked
towards the bar, he continued swearing and shouted “You’re not allowed in here.
Get out”. We were refused drinks at the bar, and as we walked out, a customer
threatened “If you come back, I’ll get the whole pub to walk out.” Genuinely
afraid, Jeanne left immediately. I then asked the man why he treated Jeanne
like that. He said “She’s a scab. She knows she’s not allowed in here. This is not a
pub for scabs. If she stays in here, I’ll get the
whole pub out. I’ve done it before, and I know they’ll walk out again if I told
them. Scabs don’t drink in here”.
Jeanne was convinced we could drink at The Imperial, in Black Bull Road.
She’d worked there as a barmaid and had known landlord Mr. Vic Clark as a
friend for 20 years. She was wrong. As we walked in, the pub went quiet.
The landlord told Jeanne “I can’t serve you. I’m on the line. I’ve got the boys
in here”.
Jeanne says she can count another four pubs in Folkestone who have also
banned her. Bitter Jeanne said “I have lived in
this town all my life. My father had a tobacconists shop in Tontine Street for
over 50 years. Now I am being threatened and always have to watch my back. It is
terrible that P&O workers have to be careful where they drink. Surely in
this free country, people who want to work should be allowed to without
recriminations”, she said.
Folkestone Herald 24-1-1992
Local News
Publicans are prepared to lose their jobs and homes
rather than sign new leases they say could double their rents. Half the
publicans in Fover being offered these contracts and two thirds in Shepway are
rebelling, say the local branches of the Licensed Victuallers` Association.
“It`s like signing a suicide pact, and I won`t do it”,
says Rick Abbott, who runs the Cricketers in River. He added “I have a wife and
three children and we would lose our home, but we would be ruined if I signed”.
Big breweries, with more than 2,000 pubs in the country,
are selling pubs or offering 20-year leases because the Monopolies and Mergers
Commission is restricting how many they can have.
Alf Bentley, landlord of the Red Lion in Charlton Green,
Dover, said “This is as ill-conceived as the poll tax. What use is a 20-year
lease to me when I am 60? The breweries are also driving out experienced
landlords and replacing them with people who were probably bakers before”.
Leslie Carpenter, of Carpenter`s in The Stade,
Folkestone, said “My own rent will only go up by a third, but I couldn`t even
manage that. I am prepared to lose my job rather than accept. It`s hard enough
to survive with the recession. We`ve just lost more customers through the
Sealink redundancies”.
The L.V.A. says the increases would further damage pubs
because landlords would have to put up their prices to try to survive. They say
the cost of a pint is now pushing £2.
Only last week Barry Musk walked out of the pub where he
had been a tenant for four years, the Red Cow, in Foord Road, Folkestone. He
now manages a free house, the Imperial, in Black Bull Road. He said “Signing
would have meant my rent going up from £12,000 a year to £20,000, which would
have ruined me. I was lucky because I found another pub without that kind of
expense”.
All four pubs are owned by Whitbread. A spokesman said
the company was willing to negotiate with landlords if they could not afford
new rents. “The LVA claims that rents will double, but I dispute that. Our own
survey shows that overall rents have increased by just 45 percent”, he added.
Whitbread says Government legislation has been put it and other brewers in a
dilemma. The new Landlord and Tenant Act gives publicans security of tenure, yet
the Monopolies Commission says brewers must get rid of pubs.
Folkestone Herald
1-5-1992
Local News
A bankruptcy order has been made against Barry and
Victoria Musk, of Alder Road, Folkestone. The couple used to run and live at
the Red Cow Inn, Foord Road, Folkestone. The petition was filed at Canterbury
Crown Court by the Musks, and the Official Receiver has been appointed to
safeguard their assets.
Folkestone Herald
22-5-1992
Local News
We would like to point out that despite a bankruptcy
order being made against Barry and Victoria Musk, who used to run the Red Cow
Inn, the pub itself has not closed. The inn, which is in Foord Road,
Folkestone, has been taken over by Jim and Madeleine Tansey. We would like to
apologise for any misunderstanding our story about the Red Cow in our May 1
edition may have caused.
Folkestone Herald
4-8-1994
Local News
Lewis Dawes, landlord of the Imperial pub in Black Bull
Road, Folkestone, is planning a sponsored pram push to raise money for the baby
care unit at Guy`s Hospital in London. He and friends will start the push from
the King`s Head, Hastings early on August 13 and plan to arrive at the Imperial
the same evening.
Note: Date is at variance with
More Bastions.
Folkestone Herald
25-8-1994
Local News
Ten people raised more than £1,000 for a hospital`s baby
unit by walking 40 miles in one day.
Landlord Lewis Dawes hiked from Hastings to his pub, The
Imperial in Black Bull Road, Folkestone, with nine of his regulars. Most money
was pledged to walkers beforehand, but people they passed along the way donated
£110. “We would have liked to have got a little bit more, but of course we are
happy with what we got”, said Mr. Dawes, adding “It was an excellent response”.
Mr. Dawes singled out Larry Slade, of Linden Crescent,
for his courage in finishing the trek despite being in agony from blisters 15
miles from the end. “It was sheer guts and determination”, said Mr. Dawes. “I
can`t put it down to anything else”.
The walk was in aid of the baby unit at Guy`s Hospital in
London.
Folkestone Herald 27-3-1997
Maidstone Crown Court
Two men have been cleared of assaulting a youth and
throwing him over a steep cliff on The Leas in Folkestone.
Stephen Cornish claimed that his attackers were Tony
Morosoli and his half-brother Terry Philpot, saying that he recognised them
from drinking in the Imperial pub in the town. Mr. Cornish, who suffers from a
behavioural problem, had gone to The Leas at around 11 p.m. on March 3 last
year, Maidstone Crown Court was told. He said he bumped into an old school
friend and after they separated he was set upon by the two men he identified as
Morosoli, 27, and 32-year-old Philpot. Mr. Cornish, of Shorncliffe Road,
claimed that they dragged him down concrete stairs and started laying into him.
Philpot, he said, struck him across the face with a long chain, splitting open
his right eyebrow. The two men were calling him a homosexual, using words like
“gay” and “shirtlifter”. Said the father of a nin-month-old child, “I am not
homosexual”. Mr. Cornish said he was then thrown head-first over a fence
leading to the cliff-top. He managed to stop himself going all the way by
clinging to a tree stump.
Morosoli, of Bouverie Road West, and Philpot, of Garden
Road, both Folkestone, denied causing actual bodily harm. Both said they had
been in the Imperial pub, but did not go to The Leas on the night of the
incident.
The jury deliberated for just over 2½ hours before
acquitting both men.
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