From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 4 February, 1921.

WINGHAM PETTY SESSIONS

LICENSING DAY AND A LONG SITTING

At the Wingham Petty Sessions on Thursday, at the Court House, Wingham, before Mr. H Fitzwalter Plumptree (in the chair), Sir N Henderman, Messrs. Haird, Burgess, Clark, Chandler, Hines, Fagg, Champion, Rose and May, the General Licensing Meeting was held prior to the ordinary business of the Court. The Magistrates sat, except for one period of adjournment of a quarter of an hour for lunch, from 11 a.m. until well after seven p.m. the last two hours being conducted by candlelight.

The Chairman said that all the licences would be renewed except seven houses which would be considered on that day month. They were objected to on the ground of redundancy and were the "Prince of Wales," Ash, "Coach and Horses," and "Plough," Eastry, "White Swan," Preston, "Dog and Duck, Stourmouth, and "Endeavour" and "Plough," Staple.