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192 London Road

Churchill's Snooker Club

Above photo by Paul Skelton 2007.

 

Another one not in Barry Smith's list as this is not a public house but a club.

 

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 19 June, 1907. Price 1d.

Buckland School 1907

Above picture showing the premises as Buckland School, hoisting a flag for a ceremony in 1907. The club is shown on the left.

Originally built as a school in Buckland, it later became Townsend's Club that offered boxing and table tennis during the 1970's, and eventually turned into Churchill's Snooker Club around about 1987 when Townsend Thoresen was on the lips of all people world-wide with the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise. As Churchill's it housed one of the very few indoor nine-pin skittle alleys in the Dover area.

Today (2008), like so many other clubs and public houses, it has been transformed into flats.

 

From the Dover Express, 24 July, 2003.

Churchills donation

GOOD CAUSES: Linda Winter, from the hospice, accepts the cheque from Mick Graham

 

MEMBERS of Churchill's Snooker Club presented Demelza House and the Pilgrims Hospice with a cheque for £1,400 each on Sunday.

For the past five months club regulars have been involved in all kinds of fundraising activities, including a fancy dress competition, a skittles match, quizzes, raffles and sponsored swims.

Two men also had their heads shaved to help generate some cash for the good causes.

The club has fundraised for Demelza House in previous years, but decided to split the money raised this time with the Pilgrims Hospice, in memory of a regular who had been a patient there before his death earlier this year.

As well as the cash, a huge teddy bear was donated to Demelza House by Carol Smye-Rumsby who had rescued the bear from the tip and lovingly restored him.

 
Churchill advert

Above advert appeared in the Dover Mercury 19 July 2007.

 

LICENSEE LIST

DRY Peter 2007

 

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