Inspector Davis Ellis places an arresting hand on pub manager Will Turnbull.

From a local paper 1997.

Nowt So Queer As Folk.

150 year old law has been broken by Broadstairs pub which is taken on an outlawed name.

When the "Star" in Margate Road changed its name to the "Hooden Horse," nobody guessed the potential trouble it could cause.

But police inspector Dave Ellis spotted the crime immediately.

He says "As chairman of Broadstairs Folk Week I'm pretty well up on the legend behind the hooden horse. A man using a real horse skull with hinged jaw, walked the streets with a band of young accomplices visiting houses as a luck-bringer.

In Broadstairs in 1839 one woman was so terrified coming face-to-face with the weird creature on her doorstep without warning, that she died of fright.

"The custom was forbidden and Hooden Horses were outlawed.

"When I saw the new pub sign I paid a friendly visit and told the landlord his sign as illegal. He wasn't too sure how to take it at first but he realised it was all in good fun."

Folk Week starts on Friday.