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.


Welcome

Welcome to Even More Tales From The Tap Room.

Core dates and information on licensees tenure are taken from Martin Easdown and Eamonn Rooney`s two fine books on the pubs of Folkestone, Tales From The Tap Room and More Tales From The Tap Room - unfortunately now out of print. Dates for the tenure of licensees are taken from the very limited editions called Bastions Of The Bar and More Bastions Of The Bar, which were given free to very early purchasers of the books.

Easiest navigation of the site is by clicking on the PAGE of the pub you are looking for and following the links to the different sub-pages. Using the LABELS is, I`m afraid, not at all user-friendly.

Contrast Note

Whilst the above-mentioned books and supplements represent an enormous amount of research over many years, it is almost inevitable that further research will throw up some differences to the published works. Where these have been found, I have noted them. This is not intended to detract in any way from previous research, but merely to indicate that (possible) new information is available.

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Saturday 27 September 2014

Updates

27th September, 2014: Folkestone Herald Reports for 1941 Added, Kentish Gazette Reports for 1804, 1807, 1808, and 1809 Added.

Shakespeare Hotel 1940s



Folkestone Herald 22-8-1942

Local News

The licence of ihr Shakespeare Hotel, Guild­hall Street, was transferred from Mr W.A. Powell, now serving in the R.A.F., to his wife, at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.

Email recieved. Sender wished to remain anonymous

 I saw an article on the Shakespeare `hotel, Folkestone, and recalled that it was requisitioned for the army.  My father, in the Royal Sussex, after being injured , worked as the regimental tailor in the first floor front room of the hotel.

After the war, my parents took me (I was nine years old) for a holiday at the hotel.  It had been done up, but food was very sparse in those years.

Lifeboat 1940s



Folkestone Express 22-6-1940

Local News

At the Folkestone Police Court on Tuesday, an application was made for the temporary transfer of the licence of the Lifeboat Inn, North Street, from Mr. H.S. Spencer, the licence holder, to Mr. R.J. Rawlings, the Managing Director of Messrs. Mackeson and Son, the owners. It was stated that Mr. Spencer was joining the Services, and that Mr. Chapman, the licensee of another house of the same brewers, would supervise the management of the house for the time being.

The Magistrates granted the temporary transfer.

Note: No mention of this in More Bastions.
 
Folkestone Herald 22-6-1940

Local News
A protection order was granted by the Folkestone Magistrates on Tuesday in respect of the Lifeboat Inn. North Street. The temporary transfer of the licence from Mr. H.J.S. Spencer, the tenant, to Mr. R.P. Rawlings, Managing Director of Messrs. Mackeson and Company, Ltd., was agreed.

Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.       
 

Folkestone Herald 6-7-1940

Local News

A considerable amount of licensing business was transacted at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.

The licence of the Lifeboat Inn, a beer­house in North Street, was transferred from Mr. Henry Spencer to Mr R. Price Rawlings, managing director of Messrs. Mackeson's Ltd.
 
Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.

Folkestone Herald 22-11-1941

Local News

The licence of the Lifeboat Inn, North Street, was transferred to Mrs. Spencer at the Folkestone Police Court on Wednesday.

Note: This does not appear in More Bastions.
 
Folkestone Herald 14-3-1942

Adjourned Licensing Sessions

An application by Mrs. Spencer, licensee of the Lifeboat Inn, North Street, for a music licence to enable her to use a radio set on the premises was granted.

The Magistrates granted the application, the licence to be for the ordinary licensed hours only.

Alderman W. Hollands presided with Mr. S.B. Corser and Alderman J.W. Stainer.