The Falstaff Tap, North Lane, Canterbury
© P.E. Blanche 1998

The detail from an old postcard showing the rear of the cottages opposite the Westgate Towers as they used to be.

Standing in the shadow of the Westgate Towers, the Falstaff Tap was still operating up until about a year ago but its place as a local hostelry to this area has been taken over by a very "plastic", glass-fronted monster right next-door to this old building. North Lane was a poorer area of Canterbury and the interior of the pub, to me, always seemed to reflect this, being somewhat of a "spit and sawdust" type of arrangement.

The opposite side of the road used to be occupied by many of the old weavers cottages but most of them were destroyed by a bomb in the Second World War.