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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Saturday, 11 December 2021

Royal Standard 1940s - 1960s



Folkestone Herald 22-1-1949

Notice

To: The Clerk to the Licensing Justices of the Borough of Folkestone

The Superintendent of Police Kent County Constabulary (Folkestone “J” Division)

The Clerk to the Rating Authority of the said Borough and

To All whom it may concern

I, Ellen Rhoda Tribe, now residing at the Royal Standard, Bridge Street, in the said Borough, Beerhouse Keeper,

do hereby give notice that it is my intention to apply at the General Annual Licensing Meet­ing for the said Borough to be holden at The Town Hall in the said Borough on the 9th day of February 1949 for the grant to me of a Justices Licence author­ising me to apply for and hold an Excise Licence to sell by retail any intoxicating liquor which may be sold under a publican’s licence for consumption either on or off the premises situate at Bridge Street in the said Borough and known by the sign of the Royal Standard and of which premises Messrs. Leney & Co. Ltd., of Dover are the owners and Messrs. Fremlins Ltd., of Maidstone are the Leaseholders of whom I rent them.

Given under my hand this 17th day of January, 1949.

E. R. TRIBE.
 
Folkestone Herald 12-2-1949

Annual Licensing Sessions

Mr Mason applied for a new full licence in respect of the Royal Standard, Bridge Stret.

Mrs. Tribe, the licensee, said the premises had been in the occupation of the family for some 50 years. When Mrs. Summerfield, the former licensee, died the customers asked the brewers to transfer the licence to her, which was done. In the summertime and at Christmas, particularly, people asked for spirits, and if they could not get them they either went without or went out. Mrs. Tribe said there were four clubs connected with the premises, and a considerable amount of money was paid in. The brewers told her that the amount paid in during the year was greater than in any similar house belonging to them in Folkestone. She had lost customers because she had no spitit licence.

The application was granted.

Folkestone Gazette 28-7-1954

Local News

The licensees of the Two Bells and the Royal Standard, Canterbury Road, Folkestone, were granted an extension from 10.30 p.m. to 11 p.m. from August 6th to 14th, with the exception of Sunday, at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The application was made be­cause of the fair to be staged during the week on the Canter­bury Road Recreation Ground. Chief Inspector L.A. Hadlow said the extension was granted last year because of the Coron­ation and the two licensees found it so advantageous during the week of the fair that they had decided to make application this year. The police, he said, had no objection.

Folkestone Gazette 13-2-1963

Local News

Permits under the Betting and Gaming Act for amuse­ments with prizes have been granted to the Martello Hotel, True Briton, Ship Inn, East Cliff Tavern, Raglan Hotel, Royal Pavilion Bars, Railway Tavern, and Royal Standard.
 
Left to right Ronald Tidd (licensee 1952-1968), Eva McDonald, Doris Tidd (licensee 1968-1971) & Harold Hatcher who became the Licensee. Credit Ruth Daucsavage


                                           Ronald Tidd Credit Ruth Daucsavage

 
 

Ship In Distress, address unknown. C1776

Licensees

No details available

 

Kentish Gazette 20-11-1776 

A subscription is set on foot at Folkestone by the Mayor and principal inhabitants of that town, whereby a reward of 40s. is offered to every able bodied seaman, and 20s. for every ordinary seaman, over and above His Majesty`s bounty, to such inhabitants of the said town as shall voluntarily enter themselves into His Majesty`s navy, with Lieutenant Wm. Oakley, of the press-gang, at the rendezvous house, the Ship In Distress, in the said town.

Note: This, if indeed it is a pub, is a previously unknown house, address also unknown.