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4 Folkestone Town Council Magazine Folkestone Town Council Magazine 5 NEWS OF THE SAD LOSS OF FOLKESTONE PRIEST Forthcoming St. Peter’s Church, Meetings Painters and All of these meetings will now be held in the Town Folkestone Council’s offices at the Town Hall starting at 7pm Decorators Ltd unless otherwise stated. PDC provide a full range of interior and exterior St Peter’s Church, Folkestone are sorry Full Council Meeting decorating services including new build decoration, to announce the death of Father David 15th March, 11th May – Annual Council and Adlington from a suspected heart attack in 29th May – Town Assembly refurbishment of existing decor or full room/house the Vicarage, on 4th January 2018. Members of the public are welcome to attend. redecoration. No job is too small. Electors of the Town are able to ask questions Whether you want to brighten up a bathroom with a Rev. David Adlington relevant to the agenda. For further information new coat of paint or restyle your lounge we can help (1951-2018) studied at contact the Town Council on 01303 257946. you and provide advice, colour charts and sourcing of Kings College London and Finance and General Purposes Committee materials as required. St. Augustine’s College, 22nd February and 26th April . Father David Scrutinise, monitor and further develop the We provide FREE quotes, all our work is fully Council’s budget and oversee Council’s policies. was ordained as Deacon in GUARANTEED and we are fully insured. 1973 and served his curacy Grants Committee at St. Paul’s, Clapham 5th April Contact our team in Folkestone on 01303 272310/ (1974-1977) and St. To consider Town Grant applications. There is 07988 186575 or email [email protected] Matthew’s, Bethnal Green currently approximately £30,000 in Town Grants www.pdcpaintersanddecorators.com available each year with a limit of £2,500 per (1977-1980). He was ordained Priest in 1975. He project with a maximum of three applications per served as Priest at St. Peter’s, Stepney and was organisation per financial year. Please note this Succentor (responsible for liturgy and music) at meeting starts at 6.30pm. Southwark Cathedral (1984-1987) before moving Planning Committee to Wales where he became Succentor at Llandaff 15th February, 8th and 29th March, 19th April Cathedral and then Priest of several Parishes and 10th May between 1988 and 2000. He was Diocesan Closely examine all planning applications Director of Education (1991-2000). submitted to Shepway District Council in the Folkestone Town area and make Father David moved to the Canterbury Diocese recommendations and comments on acceptance ROBERT KENT in 2000, becoming Priest in Charge of St. Mary as part of the statutory consultation process. FUNERAL DIRECTOR and St. Eanswythe, Folkestone (2000-2009) A sympathetic alternative approach for Community Services Committee that last goodbye to your loved one. and then at St. Mary’s, Elham (2009-2013). 6th February and 3rd April He returned to Folkestone in 2013 to be Giving support and assistance in your time Look at how to enhance and improve the of bereavement helping you the Vicar of St. Mary, St. Eanswythe and St. environment and facilities in our area, from to achieve that special and memorable Saviour, Folkestone and Vicar of St. Peter’s, agreeing expenditure on new facilities to end of life celebration. Folkestone, being the first incumbent to hold supporting new and proposed events. the two Benefices jointly. Father David was Drivers FUNERAL PACKAGES •Bespoke Packages an Honourable Minor Canon at Canterbury The Bishop of Dover, The Right Reverend Trevor Direct Cremation £ 795 •Funeral Plan Advice Cathedral (since 2001) and had been serving Willmott, said in a letter to the Diocese that NeeDeD Simple Funeral £ 1695 •Estimates and Traditional Funeral £ 2295 as Area Dean of the Elham Deanery since 2014. Father David Quotations on Disbursements Not Included Request Father David was widely recognised across “… was a fine human being and a fine priest who Folkestone from events such as Town Sunday served the communities entrusted to his care with Free no obligation consultation, regarding and The Blessing of the Fisheries. your individual situation and needs. love and faithfulness. His gentle spirit reflected “YOU’VE TRIED THE REST, NOW TRY THE BEST!” Churchwarden, Dr David Wilson, of St. Peter’s his deep Faith into the transformative love of God RKFUNERALS.COM Church said: revealed to us in Jesus Christ. We rejoice today in that love which is stronger than death. May he HYTHE 01303 684062 “He was deeply loved by his parishioners and DOVER 01304 763029 especially by the children of St. Peter’s School, rest in peace and rise in glory.” Out of Hours 0748 3154347 St. Mary’s Primary Academy and St. Eanswythe’s Father David leaves wife, Kim, children and 83/85 High Street, Dover, Kent CT16 1EB School. We are all devastated.” grandchildren.

6 Folkestone Town Council Magazine Folkestone Town Council Magazine 7 A Brief History of Cheriton by Vincent Williams Your trusted and established MOBILITY St Martin’s church has stood on the hillside at the top of the Horn Street valley, at the west end of Folkestone for over a thousand years. The date the church was built SPECIALISTS easier! is not known, however the original building (consisting of the nave and tower) was Making life Regain your independence built prior to 900AD. RELAX - you’re in safe hands Inside of the church one can see the original it was suggested, although not conclusively Saxon doorway into the tower and a Saxon proved, that this find gave credence to a Roman window above. This building is the oldest road from to Dover passing through church in Folkestone and the parish church of this area. Cheriton. But whereas many local history books The name Cheriton derives from the Old the resulting success of Folkestone as a have documented Folkestone few have given English words “Cirice tūn” meaning Church tourist resort together with the proximity of Cheriton more than a passing mention; mostly farmstead and this church, as mentioned Shorncliffe Camp, a separate entity called to acknowledge the fact that the churchyard above, dates from Saxon times with additions Cheriton Street sprang up to service the needs contains the grave of Samuel Plimsoll, a Liberal being made in the 13th, 14th, 19th and 21st of both the army camp and Folkestone’s hotels. M.P. for Derby, who is world renowned for centuries. However, most people today think of In fact Cheriton’s main industry was to become creating the “Plimsoll Line” on ships which Cheriton not as the rural village that stretches has undoubtedly saved the lives of many down the Horn Street valley but the built up the laundry business and earned it the name of the “Washtub of Folkestone!” Gradually the thousands of seamen, and earned him the area straddling the main road into Folkestone. APPROVED SUPPLIER villages or hamlets of Cheriton, Risborough, nickname “The Sailor’s Friend.” 347-349 Cheriton Road, Folkestone CT19 4BP Land ownership in early times was based on Barton and now Cheriton Street have all There is evidence of a settlement in what we 01303 274574 service usually granted perhaps in the first merged into one – Cheriton as we now know it. now know as Cheriton as early as 2500BC also at 4 Albion Road, Birchington 01843 848208 instance by the monarch of the day and then Over the years industries have come and gone - although little is known about the settlers. www.safehandsmobility.co.uk granted similarly by his supporters. According the brickyards, and Dormobile (who converted The only evidence, so far, comes from the to Hasted’s History of Kent in 1790 there were Vauxhall cars and Bedford vans). And the discovery of late-Neolithic pottery in 1972 by several manors within Cheriton, namely: invention of the washing machine sounded the workmen laying a water main. The suggestion Cheriton, Enbrook, Bishops Enbrook, Sweet death knell for the laundry industry with the was that the two vessels found may have been Arden, Caseborne, Swetton and Ackhanger. last laundry closing down in the 1980s. casually discarded domestic rubbish, but they Records of these date back to the 12th century, were more likely to be burial vessels as their but some had long since disappeared by the The Channel Tunnel has brought some condition tended to suggest they were buried 18th century and Hasted’s time. It is important prosperity whilst robbing it of ancient complete. The two vessels found dated from to note also that the word “manor” does agricultural land, and yet Cheriton has different periods, the earlier one from the not necessarily mean that a stately home continued to survive and grow in size with middle of the third millennium BC and a more existed; the manor might just as easily have recent housing developments on former complete bowl probably from around 2000BC. been a farmstead or other building and the Shorncliffe Camp land. Other excavations in 1948 had also unearthed surrounding land. In fact until the late 1800s So with Cheriton possibly losing some of its pottery believed to be Belgic and Samian ware, well over 90% of Cheriton was agricultural own identity from becoming simply an outskirt from a later period, 1st century AD. At the time land. But with the arrival of the railway and of Folkestone, local resident and author Vince Williams, has decided to chronicle the history of Cheriton in a series of books which are raising money for a new community centre. Seven 80 For all domestic and commercial scaffolding page volumes are available from Rocheforts look no further... Newsagents and Forget Me Not in Cheriton. The Folkestone Scaffolding provide a range of high quality latest, Volume 5 is available at a cost of £10 for services for customers in Dover, Folkestone and Deal paperbacks and £15 for hardbacks. Five volumes and surrounding areas. chronicle various shops, buildings, business, T: 01303 892428 n M: 07778 840625 schools, Shorncliffe Camp, and important events Email: [email protected] and [email protected] and people. The other two volumes focus on St Longhill, off Astley Avenue, Dover CT16 2NJ Martins and All Souls Churches. www.folkestonescaffolding.co.uk © 2017 Vincent Williams

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The Town Mayor of Folkestone’s Christmas Card Competition The Worshipful Town Mayor of Folkestone, Councillor Roger West, invited students Sunday 11th March 2018 in year groups 7 and 8 at local secondary schools to design a picture reflecting ‘Festive Folkestone’ for this year’s annual Christmas card, which was sent out to local businesses and dignitaries, including Her Majesty The Queen.

The entries submitted by The Folkestone School The effort and skill shown by the pupils was for Girls and The Harvey Grammar School were outstanding, which made it very difficult for us judged by the Town Mayor and Deputy Town to choose one overall winner. However, after Mayor, Councillor Ann Berry. much deliberation, Charlotte Cox was awarded Councillor Roger West, said “We were delighted first place with Betty Mensah-Freeman coming that The Folkestone School for Girls and The a close second. My thanks to the school staff Harvey Grammar School sent in entries for the for arranging for the students to take part and competition which were of a very high standard. of course to all those students who took the Special mention must be made of the following time to submit an entry.” - Dine in our Channel Suite, with students whose designs were shortlisted: The winner received a £25 voucher with the C Carys Rogers (The Folkestone School for Girls) runner up receiving a £15 voucher. A special stunning sea views gift was also presented to Ely Fonseca-Shaw M Maisie Martin (The Folkestone School for Girls) who was self-taught in the use of Photoshop Fern Hyslop (The Folkestone School for Girls) Y and used this to design his entry. Evie Hawkes (The Folkestone School for Girls) CM Charlotte Cox (The Folkestone School for Girls) Betty Mensah-Freeman (The Folkestone School for Girls) MY

Ely Fonseca-Shaw (The Harvey Grammar School) CY Folkestone Town Council as local tree charter CMY K branch and planting of a legacy tree To mark the launch of the Charter for Trees, Woods and People in November last year, 800 ‘Tree Charter Legacy Trees’ will be planted across the UK, serving as living reminders of the 800 years that separated the 1217 Charter of the Forest and the new charter. These trees will be given free of charge For more information or to become involved to Charter Branches, community groups, please go to universities, colleges, schools and organisations www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/get-involved/ that pledge to stand up for the Tree Charter and communities embody its Principles into their activities and or contact Vicky Deakin (Tourism and policies going forward. Community Events Officer) on 01303 257946 Folkestone Town Council are one of the scheme or [email protected] champions and have signed up to the Charter.

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The eagerly anticipated display saw residents turn out in force after enjoying all the fun of the event which included a festive lantern parade and live entertainment by Academy FM outside the Town Hall. Academy DJ’s built up the crowd for the big event and provided the countdown for the lights switch on, Carols where provided by the pupils of St Eanswythes; and the Snowdown Colliery T: 01233 225150 • M: 07720 296252 Brass Band played whilst families enjoyed [email protected] • www.tgmltd.co.uk fairground rides, real reindeer and food stalls. The climax of the evening was a near 20 minute firework display with plenty of gasps, “oohs” and “aahs” from spectators. The event was officially opened by Councillor Roger West, Mayor of Folkestone who praised all participants for delivering a fantastically attended and enjoyable start to the festive season for all. Many grateful comments came from members of the public who were pleased that the whole event was free and a wonderful way to get in to the festive FTCM08-014 spirit and bring the community together. Ward and Partners 1/2 Page

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14 Folkestone Town Council Magazine Folkestone Town Council Magazine 15 Folkestone Town Whats on – Council Champion The Town Mayor of Folkestone’s Spring 2018 Bollard & Bin FEBRUARY Renovation across FFuunn NNiigghhtt 23rd In aiid of the Mayoress of Follkestone’’s Chariity Fund Mayors Fun Night At the Folkestone and Hythe Sea Cadet Unit, Ross the Town Way, Folkestone – Join the Mayor for an evening of games, tickets are £5 per person and includes entry, baked potato and waffle berry pie, all proceeds go RAFFLE to the Mayoress of Folkestone’s Charity Fund. For NAME QUIZ further information or to book tickets please call 01303 257946 or visit www.folkestonetc.kentparishes. THAT TUNE gov.uk BINGO

MAY 11th – 7pm Mayor Making Election of the Town Mayor, Deputy Mayor and PAY appointment of the Town Mayors Chaplain. For JACKET SPUD further information visit www.folkestonetc. BAR kentparishes.gov.uk or call 01303 257946. WITH A 29th – 7pm Folkestone Town Council have funded the CHOICE OF Town Meeting painting of bollards and bins in the Towns FILLINGS Electors of the Town and Parish of Folkestone may colours to aesthetically and significantly raise and discuss matters of general interest and hear enhance Folkestone’s highways, and by NEA REST reports on activities from their local County, District working in partnership with Kent County and Town Councillors, together with representatives HORSE RACING THE BOTTLE from and Kent Fire and Rescue. For Council and Shepway District Council, aim to further information visit www.folkestonetc. further develop the improvement scheme in WITH A DIFFERENCE WAFFLE kentparishes.gov.uk or call 01303 257946. repairing, replacing and repainting railings and bus shelters in areas where they are particularly BERRY PIE damaged and unsightly. To advertise please call Please contact Vicky Deakin (Tourism and Community Events Officer) on 01303 257946 01843 269513 or [email protected] should you have any suggestions in respect of any of Friday 23 February 2018 the above projects. 7.00pm for 7.30pm

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Joiin us for a fun eveniing of games £5 per person - Inclludes entry,, baked potato and wafflle berry piie! Song&Dance Tap Street Dance Pre School Modern Lyrical Please pre-book your place Tickets are available from Folkestone Town Council Offices, The Town Hall, 1-2 Guildhall Street, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1DY Call Dan on – 07813 154158 Tel: 01303 257946 or email [email protected]

16 Folkestone Town Council Magazine Rare dinosaur footprint 51 2016 1965 2016 found in Folkestone The newly opened Folkestone Museum has Proud to be celebrating recently acquired a very important donation. 51 years of trading Bespoke Mirrors PVC Steve Friedrich, a well-known local The finds have recently been published in Splash Backs Windows collector and fossil hunter with over Fossils of Folkestone, Kent by Phil Hadland: Balustrades Doors and Composite Doors Leaded Lights Made Conservatories 40 years’ experience, has discovered siriscientificpress.co.uk/products/fossils-of- folkestone-kent. A book launch and signing Shop Fronts Porches a rare dinosaur footprint including a 24 Hour Glazing Repairs Patio Doors with the author will take place at Folkestone All Types of Glass Cut to Size French Doors trackway on the beach at Folkestone. Museum on Saturday, 20th January from 2-4pm. It was found on 28 September 2017 in Single Glazed Repairs Aluminium Windows The footprint will be on display to the Cat & Dog Pet Flaps Bi-Fold Doors the Lower Greensand, making it around public in 2018, please visit our website Green House Glass Secondary Glazing 120 million years old (Cretaceous www.folkestonemuseum.co.uk for further period). Steve immediately realised the information, or follow us on social media. importance of the find and donated it to Folkestone Museum. 01304 202303 The Museum’s Collections Officer, Phil Hadland, who helped to retrieve the find, www.doverglassglass.co.uk had previously found evidence of dinosaur footprints in Folkestone. It was asserted by some that such footprints could not be found here because the local rocks are supposedly all from marine sediments. However it is now thought possible that the creatures were wandering ancient shorelines during low tides Tel. 01303 268100 Nigel J. Swift and scavenging. In Utah in the United States, email: [email protected] it was recently discovered that some dinosaurs Carpenter / Joiner ate shellfish so it is plausible that they were We offer a complete range of garage services: doing the same in Folkestone. The dinosaur that made this track is thought › MOT Agents General Builder to have belonged to the theropods - a group › of dinosaurs that included Tyrannosaurus Rex. Servicing, repairs and maintenance to all makes Locksmith Like most theropod dinosaurs, it walked on two and models of cars and light commercial vehicles Over 30 years’ experience • Fully Qualified legs and had three toes on each foot touching › Tyres for cars, light commercial vehicles and 4x4s the ground. This natural cast of a footprint Commercial / Domestic • Free no obligation quotes was formed when the impression left in the › We are a Ferodo approved brake specialist Call Nigel now on ground by the animal’s foot was filled with sand, probably during an incoming tide. The › Fault Diagnosis. Computer diagnostics for many makes Folkestone tracks may also be the youngest 01303 894349 or known dinosaur tracks from the British Isles. For more information, call us or visit: 07762 369835 This dramatic discovery removes any doubt www.hythegarage.co.uk Email: [email protected] that dinosaurs did indeed roam this part of the Chris Barnes, Hythe Garage, The Old Fire Station, Portland Road, Hythe, Kent CT21 6EG earth that we now know as Folkestone.

18 Folkestone Town Council Magazine Folkestone Town Council Magazine 19 quarterhouse.co.uk meltingvinyl.co.uk A Coastal Walk Chris and Norah Newey, two senior citizens from Yateley in Hants, have recently completed a marathon walk of New season of music for the Coast of Mainland Britain, finishing when they walked into Folkestone on Saturday 18th November 2017. your finely tuned ears. They were welcomed by Tickets from Folkestone Quarterhouse – 01303 760750, Hot Salvation, DICE and Seetickets.com The Worshipful Booking fee applicable on advance tickets. Over 14s welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult. Doors at 7pm. All shows have support acts. Town Mayor of Folkestone, Councillor Roger West and a group of FEB 32 family and Ezra Furman 10 friends. The Outsider-angst and life-affirming energy distance proved to be 4298 miles, completed in stages over ten years. Chris (a retired Army Officer) and Norah (a retired Nurse) are not new to long distance walking having previously walked from John O’Groats to Lands End, a total of 925 miles, again in stages between 2001 and 2004. It was at the finish of that walk that Chris realised he wanted a greater challenge, to walk the Coast of Mainland Britain, panoramic views of Devon/Cornwall. One thing luckily Norah said she would do it too. was clear, the is a beautiful MAR place and the best way to see it is on foot! As a rule of thumb they decided to walk the Wherever they were, people were genuinely The Handsome 25 Coast anti-clockwise, following the route of interested in what they were doing and wished Shally Hunt and her husband Richard (who them every success in achieving it. Family walked in the opposite direction). It was her When they started on their journey, they had Gothic Americana narratives with book “the Sea on our Left” which inspired them a caravan, but latterly a small campervan highly crafted musicianship to do the walk, as was the BBC series ‘Coast’ on television at the time. which they used to live in. So, with military precision, campsites were selected, bus and It was decided, in order to enjoy the adventure, train timetables obtained and each day’s walk they would firstly not walk in the rain, and was planned using Ordnance Survey maps. In secondly, not walk more than 12 miles in any remote areas friends joined them to help out one day. They failed on both counts! As they with logistics of getting from point A to point were not sure if they would complete the walk APR B and on a few walks joined them. During the (before their joints failed), they decided not to This is Psychedelia 2018 07 walk they managed to wear out three pairs of raise money for charity. People often asked A spectrum of creative artists all under the umbrella term of the boots in 425 days of walking – but thankfully them ‘what was the most beautiful part of sonic worlds of psychedelia — with Death & Vanilla / Flamingods they did not suffer illness or injury. / Cobalt Chapel / Dreamweaver / Snapped Ankles the walk or what did they enjoy most?’ Well, that proved difficult to answer, they have fond Now the walk is over – what next? Probably a memories of different areas. The remoteness well-earned rest, but they do plan on moving of North West Scotland, the long flat beaches to Kent to be nearer to their family in old age. of Northumberland and Pembrokeshire, the A remarkable achievement, well done.

20 Folkestone Town Council Magazine Folkestone Town Council Magazine 21 TOWN MAYOR OF FOLKESTONE’S CHRISTMAS FUND 2017/18 Message from The Worshipful Town Mayor of Folkestone, Councillor Roger West:

“May I thank the people of Folkestone May I mention that the fund is open all year who, one way or another, have contributed to receive donations and the Committee towards the Town Mayor’s Christmas Fund. would naturally welcome support at any Wherever possible, the donations have been time – we know how much the gifts are acknowledged but some were received appreciated by the beneficiaries.” anonymously and we have been unable to Any organisation or individual who wishes to express our thanks to these people. make a donation, however small, can do so The Christmas Fund Committee really by addressing it to: appreciates the generosity of the many The Town Mayor of Folkestone, organisations and individuals from whom Folkestone Town Council, The Town Hall, we have received gifts and, as a result of 1-2 Guildhall Street, Folkestone, this kindness, we have been able to make Kent, CT20 1DY. payments to the elderly residents of our Cheques should be made payable to Town to assist with their winter expenses. ‘The Town Mayor’s Christmas Fund’.

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24 Folkestone Town Council Magazine Folkestone Town Council Magazine 25 to purchase large quantities of food that was Unit 1, Whitfield Court, Honeywood Close, Rotary Update separated into bags and distributed in parcels White Cliffs Business Park, CT16 3PX to the needy within the local area. Each year we We are pleased to report that we have now finalized the total amount of receive numerous letters of thanks for support money raised for this year’s Half Marathon, which achieved £44,208. and consideration, and Folkestone Rotary Club will continue supporting the Winter Shelter s Open TO Trade and public

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s as successful. We had a that support our annual Christmas collections. experienced STaFF fabulous children’s race In addition I would like to thank all of the many Sam Taylor – branch manager and lots of good pics are volunteers, not only members of the Rotary Chris Smith – internal Sales • Clive Heron – internal Sales on our website. Club but also friends of Rotary who assist us at Email – [email protected] “The main charity was various events, and also the local supermarkets Folkestone Rainbow Centre, that have granted us permission to collect funds and we were delighted to – not forgetting Father Christmas of course. In help them raise over £4,500 addition we would like to thank Inner Wheel for this year in addition to direct assisting in the preparation of the parcels. funds. The funds include monies raised directly by runners for a wide variety of charitable causes. The Rotary Club will also distribute £4,500 in support •MOTs President Tom McNeice said “this is a of its work within the community.” •Servicing tremendous achievement for all involved Jon Wilson, Chief Executive of Folkestone •Repairs and all proceeds will be supporting local Rainbow Centre, commented that he was •Air Con and international causes. The Half Marathon delighted that the Rainbow Centre was chosen •Welding event since it started in 2006 has now raised for this year’s event and receiving vital funds via •Diagnostics over £450,000 – so the support from all of the Rotary Club of Folkestone has been most •Tyres the participants, organisers and assistants is beneficial to our ongoing causes, supporting “I would also like to take this opportunity to Are you looking for a reliable greatly appreciated. Already we are making those primarily within the local area. progress with next year’s race that will take thank everyone for their kind support for all of local mechanic/car repairs place on the 30th September 2018 where we Further feedback / information can be viewed our events throughout the last 12 months.” in Folkestone? by going to: www.runnersworld.co.uk/events have 12 registrations already. It is possible to For a high level of customer service, enter online at www.runnersworld.co.uk/events and www.folkestonerotary.org value for money and quality of work, or download an entry form from our website We are also pleased to report that we have call KMR today. www.folkestonerotary.org“. had an overwhelming response following our PE O R’S Monday to Friday: O 8:30am – 5:30pm Ray Johnson, Race Director, said “This year’s Christmas collections within the Folkestone district. Not only have residents been most WINDOWC CLEANING SERVICE Saturday: event went extremely well and assistance was 9.00am – noon received with sincere thanks from members generous, they have also enjoyed the • Domestic & Commercial By appointment only of the Folkestone Rotary Club, Hythe and opportunity to meet Santa – in particular the • High Reach Pure Water System Folkestone Channel Rotary Clubs. Folkestone children, of course. • Cladding & Fascia Cleaning 01303 243377 Running Club, other running clubs and the This year’s total was a phenomenal £6,909.43. A Friendly & Reliable Service local community also assisted. I would also The Folkestone Rotary Club would like to kmrltd.com like to thank our sponsors, in particular express their sincere thanks to the local Tel: 07739 420220 or 07738 251103 44a Dover Road, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1JX Independent Insurance Services and the community as the collections have enabled us www.cooperswindowcleaning.co.uk

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