From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday, 28 October, 1955.

BAR OF MEMORIES.

Who better than 63-year-old George Arnold to preside over the "Bar of memories" at the little "Victoria Inn," nestling only a few yards from where the waves lap the shingle at Kingsdown.

Photographs yellowing with age, show Kingsdown when it was no more than a few cottages clustered near the foreshore.... the famous old Kingsdown lifeboat which went to the rescue of many a ship in distress on the Goodwins... tough, bearded fishermen who hawked their catches in the nearby markets of Dover and Deal.

Son of grand old man Richard Arnold - master of the Dover lugger "Vespa" when he was only 18 - George came up the hard way.

As a boy of 12 he sailed with the fishing crews - Jim Laming, "Bully" Bingham, and the others. He helped with the curing, and would trudge to Dover to sell 120 bloaters for five shillings.

A mere youth he was with the lifeboat crew and knew what it was like to shudder with fright as the craft was tossed like a cork on mountainous waves.

Then a strange break in George's life - he joined the Metropolitan Police, and apart from the First World War when he was in the Corps of Royal Military Police in France, he served in the East End of London until 1939.

He had married his charming Somerset wife, Ruth (shown picture left), - "we met after George had given two pints of blood to save my father's life," she says.

 And, of course, they returned to Kingsdown, where George spent the Second World War years as a member of the Police Reserves and as a fisherman once again.

Since 1946 he's been licensee of the "Victory," gathering together the wonderful collection of photographs and mementoes which depict, so vividly, a hundred years in the life of Kingsdown.