81 High Street

Beckenham

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Above photo, circa 1880.

Above photo, circa 1900.

Above photo, circa 1900.

Above postcard, date unknown, slowing the "Three Tuns" and Austins Shop. Kindly sent by Ian Muir of the Beckenham History Society.

Above postcard, 1906.

Above photo, date unknown.

Above photo, 1958, by kind permission of the Beckenham History Society.

Above photo showing David Bowie performing inside the pub, date unknown.

Above photo 2000.

Above sign left date unknown. Sign right, 2021, now called "Zizzi."

This was an early haunt for then unknown David Bowie. Living in Beckenham with a friend Mary Finnigan, the pair started a Folk Club there and they appearing every Sundays at the pub. It morphed into the Beckenham Arts Lab by popular request but became a Folk Club again after Mary Finnigen left, and David eventually gave up becoming disillusioned with the clientele - who he said, only wanted to be entertained.

The pub changed name to the "Rat and Parrott." Later changed name again to "Zizzi," dates of change unknown. Certainly back to the "Three Tuns" again in 2000.

LICENSEE LIST

TRIMNELL Robert 1832+

EPPS William 1840+

OVENDEN William 1851-71+ (age 41 in 1851)

NEWELL John William 1874-91+

UPWARD Henry 1901-03+ (age 40 in 1901)

WILSON Robert Arthur 1913+

WHALEY Stephen T E 1922+

BONHAM John William 1930-39+ (age 52 in 1939)

POWELL John & Marie 1969-73

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From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

Census

From the Kelly's Directory 1903