Three Tuns Public House was the cause of rivers of blood appearing in Brownlow Terrace, after three men were ejected from the pub to fight almost to the death, while the pub landlord stood quietly watching.
‘Three men, who appeared to be strangers, were drinking in the Three Tuns public-house, in Saint Leonard’s-street, on Monday evening last, and becoming quarrelsome they were turned out by the landlord to fight it out in front of Brownlow-terrace, where a most savage and brutal fight took place. After using their fists recourse was had to kicking each other in the most terrific manner about the legs and lower parts of the body ; then they fought with sticks and stones, knocking each other’s head against the wall and kerb stones until blood was scattered from one end of the Terrace to the other. The whole street was thrown into a terrible state of alarm, the bystanders expecting every moment that one of them must be murdered. Children and women were screaming and others fainting, and ineffectual efforts were made by some of the inhabitants of the Terrace to separate them, while the landlord of the Tuns stood quietly looking on at his door with his hands in his pockets. This house is said to be one of the greatest nuisances in the town.’
Stamford Mercury, 20 March, 1863.