Kent & Sussex Courier, Friday 29 September 1967.

Bird at the bar.

MR. MICHAEL SHARP, landlord of the "Beau Nash Tavern," with his macaw, as yet un-named.

A COLOURFUL new attraction for customers at the "Beau Nash Tavern," on Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, is this ten-month-old macaw, which has been given to the landlord, Mr. Michael Sharp, as a birthday present by his wife, Janice "He can’t talk yet, but he is very friendly," she said.

"We have not settled on a name, but as we already have a dog called Fagin we are thinking of calling him Quilp."

Macaws develop a long and colourful tail, so the new arrival has been provided with a cage which provides plenty of room for growth.

The Sharps are out to raise enough money among their customers to buy a £530 anaesthetic machine for the new operating theatre at Pembury Hospital, and already an "antique" chamber pot on the bar is filling up with silver and copper.