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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Tuesday, 16 April 2024

Hope And Anchor, Great Fenchurch Street c1786 - 1810

Licensee 
Robert Marsh 1808 1808 Renamed Hope 1810

 

Kentish Gazette 7-2-1786 

To be sold by Auction by Messrs. Fuller & Wraight, at the Hope & Anchor, in the town of Folkestone, on Wednesday, the 22nd day of February, 1786, at Tow o`clock in the afternoon, by order of the assignees of Richard Elgar, a bankrupt, in several lots, six copyhold messuages or tenements and buildings, with carpenters` workshops and yards, situate and being in the town of Folkestone, in Kent. Fine certain and very small. 

Also two leasehold messuages of tenements, with the buildings, yards and ground thereto adjoining, and a moiety of a storehouse, late used as a sailmaker`s shop, situate and being at Sandgate, about a mile from the town of Folkestone, and three miles from Hythe. The premises are held by a small ground rent for a term of years, of which there were fifty-two years unexpired at Michaelmas last.

Further particulars and description of the premises may be had by applying to Mr. Reynolds, attorney, at Folkestone, and at the place of sale.

 

Saracen`s Head, South Street 1766 - 1794

Licensees

Phineas Jacobs 1766 1767
Martha Jacobs 1767 1773 (Mathew Jacobs listed in 1772 Sessions Book)
Joseph Jacobs 1773 1792 (John Jacobs listed in 1778 Sessions Book)
John Hall 1792 1794



Kentish Gazette 11-8-1773

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To be sold publicly to the highest bidder, on Saturday the 14th instant, between the hours of four and six o`clock in the afternoon, at the Saracen`s Head, in Folkestone, a cutter, about fifty six tons or thereabouts, with all her materials, between fiv and six years old.

For further particulars enquire of Mr. Joseph Sladden, at Folkestone


Kentish Gazette 25-10-1775

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To be sold by Auction, at the Saracen`s Head, Folkestone, on Thursday, the 26th instant, between the hours of five and seven in the evening: A Cutter, of seventy six tons burthen. Has been built for three or four years; is fit for immediate service.
 

Kentish Gazette 13-1-1779

Advertisement: To be sold by auction at the Saracen`s Head in Folkestone on Thursday, the 21st of this instant, between the hours of two and eight in the evening: all that good cutter privateer called the Surprize, of Folkestone, Thomas Fagg, late commander, burthen 70 ton, fitted with eight Carriage and eight Swivel guns, and small-arms &c., &c., agreeable thereto. The above cutter is a prime sailer, and only ten months old. 

For further particulars enquire of Mr. Phineas Jacob, Shipwright, at Folkestone.

Kentish Gazette 16-5-1781 

Advertisement: To be sold by public auction, at the Saracen`s Head in Folkestone, on Saturday the 26th day of May instant, at two o`clock in the afternoon, a shallop, about fifty tons, with all her materials, arms, ammunition and stores.

For further particulars enquire of Mr. Thomas Tapley, of Folkestone, or Mr. Richard Norwood, of Dover.

Kentish Gazette 17-7-1784 

For sale by public auction at the Saracen`s Head, in Folkestone, on Saturday, the 31st of July, at six o`clock in the evening, the Active cutter, about two hundred tons.

Kentish Gazette 25-8-1786

To be sold by auction, by the assignees of Phineas Jacob, a bankrupt, at the sign of the Saracen`s Head, in Folkestone, on Tuesday, the 29th day of August instant, at three o`clock in the afternoon; a parcel of land, now used as a shipwright`s shop, with two workshops and buildings to the same adjoining, situate, lying and being under the cliff in Folkestone aforesaid. Also a cutter, as it is now building in the yard.

Particulars may be known by applying to Mr. Reynolds, Folkestone.