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Sort file:- Folkestone, January, 2026.

Page Updated:- Wednesday, 14 January, 2026.
PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 2000

 Skuba Bar

Open 2025+

2-4 Langhorn Gardens

Folkestone

Skuba bar

Above photo kindly supplied by Jan Pedersen, 20 May 2011.

 

Advertised as a "Gay run bar attached to the Portland Hotel that is straight friendly and with a Thai restaurant downstairs." It has a large garden and outdoor area.

I am informed that the bar opened in the year 2000.

 

From the Dover Express, 2 January 2025.

7 arrested after midnight bar incident.

SEVEN people have been arrested following an assault in a Folkestone bar.

A man and a woman were assaulted by a group of people during the incident which took place in the Skuba Bar in Langhorne Gardens, shortly after midnight on Sunday, December 22.

Police were called to the scene where they carried out enquiries into the incident.

Four men - aged 23, 44, 50, and 50 - and three women - aged 22, 49, and 57 - were arrested in connection with the affray and assault.

All seven suspects have since been bailed pending further enquiries.

Anyone who has information regarding the disturbance, or which may assist police in their enquiries, is urged to call Kent Police on 01843 222289 quoting reference 46/216080/24, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

 

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