FOLKESTONE ARMS (High Street) Pubs of Folkestone

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Earliest Sept 1778

Folkestone Arms

Latest 1846

6 (Old) High Street

Folkestone

The former "Folkestone Arms" is shown as the building next to the dilapidated former coach house shown centre-left.

Pigot's directory of 1839 gives the "Folkestone Arms" as also being an excise office.

The pub was originally called the "White Hart" but in September 1778 new licensee James Bateman was instructed by the Earl of Radnor to rename it the "Folkestone Arms." The pub closed in 1846, one year before the "Folkestone Arms Tavern" was opened. It is believed there is no connection between the two.

From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday, 27 September, 1845. Price 5d.

DOVER POLICE COURT

FOLKESTONE: On Tuesday evening, about 9 o’clock, as Mr. Holley, employed in erecting coke ovens for the Railway Company, was passing from the Bail into the town, he missed his road, and, from the darkness of the place, fell a distance of 16 feet into the yard of the “Old Folkestone Arms Inn,” by which he sustained a dislocation of the knee and other injuries. Great complaint is made at the partial manner in which the town is lighted with gas.

From a correspondent.

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BATEMAN James 1772-86