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The Three Tuns was situated on Culvert Road.
19th century former public house. Two storey whitewashed brick building, under a pitched gabled pantile roof. uPVC windows, 16 and 20 light sash windows on second storey. uPVC door and double opening door at ground level. 4 ligjht sash window, possibly wooden, on east elevation. Gable stack on east elevation. Whitewashed brick extension with flat metal roofing. Outbuildings to the rear with pantile roofs. Possible metal guttering. The Inn was likely opened in the late 19th century. There is no mention of the Three Tuns in the 1872 Trade Directory but it appears on the 1887 OS map. It is not known when the Inn closed, but it is still mentioned in the Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian in July 1953. Local fishing competitions were held between the Inn and Bycroft’s Bridge during the 20th century. It appears in some news articles that lunch was held at the inn for the competitions and award ceremonies were also held here. The Inn applied for excemption between 11am and noon and 3-4pm on August 31st 1930 for the occasion of the Haslam Charity Match, advertised as “One of the largest meetings of anglers in the country”. In an article in the Louth Standard 15th August 1936, it was noted that the landlord believed that the name did not come from a reference to three barrels but rather the three nearby tunnels that carried the Steeping river under the roads over it. While this was scoffed by the correspondent noting this, the reporter noted that Pishey Thompsons’s “Boston” refers to Langrick as “gowt consisted of four tuns or arches” leading him to believe there may be truth to the claim. {1} An advertisement offering thai cuisine out of the restaurant of the Three Tuns in 1995 suggets that the pub was still in use at this time. It had closed by 2021.
Heritage Lincolnshire (February 2024)
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