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Sort file:- Folkestone, September, 2022.

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 07 September, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1870-

 Castle Hotel

5th July 1943

95 Dover Street

Folkestone

Castle Hotelm 1906

Above postcard, 1906, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.
Castle Hotel 1906

Above postcard, 1906.
Castle Hotel 1938

Above photo, 1938.

 

Kelly's directory of 1899 described this hotel as "Dover Castle Family & Commercial Temperance Hotel," Dover Street, near Junction Station, but this has no connection to the licensed premises called the "Dover Castle."

Operating as early as 1870 and also identified as "Fosters Castle Hotel" as a George Foster appears to be there in that year.

I have added this to the Folkestone pages, however this was a temperance hotel and never had a drinks license or served alcohol.

A shell destroyed the properties along Stoke Road from Stokes Brothers, coal merchants, down to Foster's Castle Hotel, on 5th July 1943.

 

Castle Hotel location

Dover Street changed name in 1956 to Harbour Way. The properties destroyed by enemy action were replaced in 1955 with one detached house next to the Russell and Wheeler sign and also four maisonettes.

 

From an email received 20 January 2014.

My great great grandfather's diary states he had dinner [lunch] at "Mr Foster Dover Castle" on a day visit to Folkestone on Good Friday 30th March 1888. He was a big supporter of the Temperance movement, so this may have been the connection to the "Dover Castle."

Sue Emmetts.

 

 

LICENSEE LIST

FOSTER George J 1870-1906+ (age 30 running as coffee house in 1891Census)

FOSTER R 1888-99+ Kelly's 1899

 

Kelly's 1899From the Kelly's Directory 1899

 

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