Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser 13 January 1899.

BOXING DAY CELEBRATIONS.

John Clifton, of the "Anchor and Hope," Crockenhill, Eynsford, was summoned for permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises, on December 26th, and Samuel Groombridge was charged with being drunk on licensed premises. Defendant and another man were found drunk on Clifton's premises by the police.

Mr. Clinch, who defended, submitted that guilty knowledge was not brought home to Clifton.

Clifton was convicted and ordered to pay the costs, the magistrates cautioning him to discontinue his dangerous custom of giving beer on Boxing Day. Groombridge was fined 1s. and the costs.