History of former Debenhams site in Folkestone set to become Covid vaccine centre | Updated: 07:01, 25 January 2021 The large scale vaccine site will open in Folkestone on Tuesday and operate from 8am until 8pm to deliver thousands of vaccines seven days a week. The last days of Debenhams. But the site at numbers 44-68 Sandgate Road has a long and interesting history as a department store and played an important role in the First World War. Before it was a Debenhams, the site was another department store known as Bobby, which had other stores in east Kent. In 1906, Frederick Bobby acquired C.J. Saunders drapers in Rendezvous Street, Folkestone, which proved a success and he soon outgrew the building.