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The Lifeboat Inn was situated at 16 The Strand and is now used as flats.

This pub was originally known, until the 1970s, as The True Briton.

Geoff Lovelock (June 2011)

I was the landlord of the Lifeboat Inn, Taking over the pub in 1986-till end of 1987.It was a busy little pub with a good local trade and food selling well during the summer. Only one problem we had a resident spirit that used to play tricks, eg turning off the gas to the barrels, moving the real ale barrels, walking upstairs during the closed periods of the day. We first noticed all was not well, when my daughter used to come into the bedroom complaining something was pulling the bedclothes off the bed. It also used to move furniture around whilst I was downstairs serving in the bar .I cant say it did any harm just playful and as I wasn't bothered by that, not surprised as the pub had a chequered history., as during the days of press gangs for the Royal Navy. Also property along The Strand were either ale houses or houses of horizontal refreshment for the Navy. Deal was a pleasant town with a couple of famous names that lived there, Norman Wisdom and Charles Hawtry of the Carry On film fame. A lovely Pub in its day with a warm atmosphere, have many happy memories of being a landlord there,

Derek Freeman (April 2015)

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