Above photo, 1960s, kindly sent by Michael Mirams.

Above photograph by Paul Skelton , 21 July 2012.  

Above photograph taken by Paul Skelton, 21 July 2012.

Sign left by Paul Skelton 21 June 2012, sign right December 1991 with thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com

Photo taken in June, 2007 from http://www.flickr.com by D J Bass. Obviously in worse days than it is in today (2014). The new management as advertised obviously didn't do it much justice.

Thanet Advertiser, Saturday 8 February 1862.

ST. LAWRENCE, SUDDEN DEATH OF AN INNKEEPER.

On Monday last, T. T. Delasaux, Esq., county coroner, visited this parish for the purpose of instigating an inquiry into the circumstance attending the death of William Terry, the landlord of the "Admiral Fox Inn," who died very suddenly the previous Saturday evening. The inquest was held at the house of the deceased, before the coroner and a respectable jury, of whom Mr. William Darby was chosen foreman. Elizabeth Langridge, (who was unable to attend the inquest room, and was consequently visited at her own house by the coroner and jury), the wife of a shoemaker, residing in St. Lawrence-street, was the first witness examined, who deposed that she knew the deceased. For a considerable time past he had been in the habit of taking her son’s supper beer, which he did the last time on Saturday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock. On that occasion he went into her room with the beer as usual; she then handed him the money, and he said. "It is all right, Mrs. Langridge, and thank thank you. "The deceased then fell down, knocking his head against the corner of the table. Witness was much alarmed, and exclaimed, "Why, Mr. Terry, what is the matter?" but he made no reply. She then took hold of his hand, and found that he was dead, he having expired without a struggle. She then called in a neighbour.

Mr. George S. Snowden, surgeon, of Ramsgate, deposed that on Saturday evening last, he was sent for and attended the deceased, at the house of John Langridge, at St. Lawrence where he found him lying on the floor of a room quite dead. He made an external examination of the body, and observed a slight injury to the right ear, from which blood had effused into the ear, but that was not sufficient to produce death. He believed the deceased had suffered from disease of the heart, and which witness had do doubt was the immediate cause of death.

After summing up the evidence, the coroner remarked that the case was so clear that he should hardly have fell it to be his duty to hold an inquest but from the fact that he is now paid by salary, and whether he held one or 500 inquests during the year, his pay was the same. It was, therefore, to prevent the public saying that as he was paid by salary he did not hold any inquests, that he held one in the present instance.

The Jury then returned a verdict of "Natural Death."

Above photo kindly sent by Jane Crawshaw circa 1960, showing June, licensee Jane and Peter Crawshaw.

From the Thanet Advertiser and Echo, 11 March 1949.

The transfer was approved of the licence of the "Admiral Fox" from Robert George Pearce to John Albert Holyer.