194 Bush Road

East Peckham

01622 871349

http://www.peckhambush.com/

https://whatpub.com/bush-blackbird-thrush

Above photo, 1959.

Above photo 2010 by Oast House Archive Creative Commons Licence.

Above photo 2013 by Malc McDonald Creative Commons Licence.

Above signs, date unknown, kindly sent by Roger Pester.

Above sign left, April 1993, sign right 2002. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Above sign left 2012, sign right 2022. With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

The "Bush, Blackbird and Thrush", no-one seems to know exactly how the name came about. Bush, one might deduce, is from the old Roman sign for an inn, but where do the birds come in?

The Pigot's Directory of 1828 identified this as simply the "Bush," and all the census reports referred to it as this until the 1881 census when it was called the full name we see today of "Bush, Blackbird and Thrush."

LICENSEE LIST

MAY Lawrence 1828+

WELLS James 1832+

BISHOP George 1841-58+ (age 30 in 1841)

RUSSELL Robert 1861-62+ (also farmer age 34 in 1861)

WALTER Mrs 1869+

WATERS Edward 1871-91+ (age 75 in 1891)

BARTON Harry 1901-11+ (age 42 in 1911)

WOODLEY John Aubrey 1930-39+ (also market gardener age 55 in 1939)

https://pubwiki.co.uk/BushBlackbird.shtml

From the Pigot's Directory 1828-29

From the Pigot's Directory 1832-33-34

Census

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