2 Radnor Park Road

Folkestone

Above photograph kindly supplied by Jan Pedersen, 1978.

Several failed attempts to build a licensed premises here by George Kemp as early as 1885 and by Croyden Brewers, Nalder and Collyer in 1887 this house finally opened as a temperance hotel in 1898. However, it took until after the second world war until the premises finally gained a wine license on 12th march 1947, and a full license on 13th July 1949, the licence being transferred from the "Royal Oak," North Street.

The premises was renamed the "Park Inn" in 1986.

LICENSEE LIST

BATEMAN Dorothy & Walter 1947-53

QUARTIER Steven 1953

MILLER William 1953

MILLER Lilian 1953-54

COAR William 1954-56

COAR Jane 1956-58

CHAPMAN Alfred 1958-63

CHAPMAN Charles & FULLAGAR Raymond 1963-64

CHAPMAN Charles & LINDSAY Ian 1964-67

CHAPMAN Charles & NEVARD Percy 1967-86

From More Bastions of the Bar by Easdown and Rooney