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From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 10
February, 1950.
WINGHAM LICENSING SESSIONS
NEW SHEPHERDSWELL LICENSE
At Canterbury, on Thursday, before Mr. T. G. Elphinston (in the chair)
Lord Hawarden, Miss Tower, Messrs. A. J. Lilliot, A. J. Ross, C. J. Lines,
and G. Plumptree.
Mr. Gordon Friend, on behalf of Norman J. N. Whalley, appealed for a full
license, for the "Hazling Dane Country House Hotel," Shepherdswell, subject to
no open bar service, only to residents or to visitors with meals and no off
sales.
Mr. Whalley, he said had owned the premises since 1946 and had been
serving a great need in the area. The hotel was five miles from Dover and
two miles off the main road, along which passed an enormous volume of
traffic to and from the Continent. A very large number of those travellers
wished to stay overnight in Dover and a great burden was placed on the
existing hotel accommodations in the town. Every day Dover hoteliers sent
out people to "Hazling Dane" for accommodation, and they had recently
contracted to accommodate parties going on coach tours on the Continent.
Mr. Friend contended that there was a particular need for a license at
that house and it was need that could not be met by sending out for drinks
to licensed premises in the district, the nearest of which was half-a-mile
away.
Application said that 99 per cent. of his trade was with overnight
visitors, travelling to and from the Continent. He had 1300 people stay with
him last year, some of them being visitors for Dover and Canterbury Cricket
Weeks.
There was no opposition and the justices granted the license subject to
the conditions stated, the monopoly value for the term of 3½
years being fixed at £60. The Chairman said they had appreciated the
application in that form, which they considered better than having a club in
an Hotel.
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