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Sort file:- Folkestone, September, 2022.

Page Updated:- Monday, 12 September, 2022.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1798

(Name from)

 Hovelling Boat

Latest 1808

(Name to)

Dover Road

Folkestone

 

Before 1798 this was called the "Pack Horse, and before that the "Red Lyon," the building was said to have gone back to 1765.

In 1811 the name changed again, this time to the "Packet Boat.

 

Folkestone Sessions Books 1765 – 1779 & 1792 - 1811.

General Sessions 25 April 1808.

Before Thomas Baker (Mayor), Joseph William Knight, John Castle, John Gill, John Bateman and James Major.

The following person was fined for having short measures in their possession, viz.:

Jn. Richardson 3/-

Note: Date is at variance with More Bastions

 

LICENSEE LIST

HOLMES Edward Rayner 1798-1809 Bastions

RICHARDSON John 1809-11 Next pub licensee had Bastions

Name to "Packet Boat."

 

BastionsFrom More Bastions of the Bar by Easdown and Rooney

 

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