From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, 25 May, 1867. Price 1d.

STEALING CABBAGES.

James Read, a labourer, was charged with stealing a quantity of cabbages, the property of Charles Palmer, on the 19th inst.

P.C. Kenny said he was on duty in the Vale, at about five o'clock on Sunday morning, and saw the prisoner coming along the road with a bundle. As soon as the prisoner saw him, he ran away, and threw the bundle over the wall. He caught him near the “Vale Tavern,” and took him into custody. A large number of persona had lost similar vegetables lately, the robberies being either perpetrated on Saturday sights or Monday mornings.

Fined 5s., and costs 6s. 3d.; or fourteen days' hard labour.

Thanet Times, Tuesday 27 April, 1965.

One of the few women licensees in Ramsgate.

One of the few women licensees in Ramsgate is Mrs. Wroughton, at the "Vale Tavern," Vale Road.

Public houses have been a way of life for cheerful Mrs. Wroughton ever since she was a child. Her parents were publicans in the London area.

"In those days hate the life, mainly because I was so restricted," said Mrs. Wroughton.

"But now I don't know what I would do without it. We have got such a marvellous crowd of customers."

She added that she was a fully qualified secretary, but she could not even contemplate going back to the job now.

Mrs. Wroughton moved to Thanet 35 years ago when her husband took over the licence of the "Captain Digby" at Kingsgate.

They stayed there for more than 7 years before moving to the "Prospect Inn" at Minster when it was first opened.

Moving again to take over the "Vale Tavern" in July 1948 Mrs. Wroughton looked back over nearly 25 years in the same house and said. "It is difficult to believe, but the time has gone so fast.

When Mrs. Wroughton and her husband took over the house, because of the war, they were only 7,500 people in the town.

But the "Vale Tavern" she said, in the event of evacuation, was to have been one of the eight houses to be kept open.

Mrs. Wroughton took over the licence of the "Vale Tavern" in her own name in 1962 when a first husband died.

"Everybody was wonderful to me at the time," she said.