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A-Z Bristol Pub Crawl: The Three Tuns, St George’s Road
The Three Tuns on Thursday evening had a morning-after-the-night-before feel. The night before was Burns Night with haggis and live music, and free whisky for anyone wearing kilts.
Around the table nearest a fireplace, three friends were planning which festivals to go to this summer. In another corner under some foliage, a couple were engaged in some serious PDA; while a solo drinker at the bar tapped away on his phone in between sips of his pint.
Half a dozen saltire flags were still draped behind the bar in front of bottles of gin, rum and tequila, with beers on tap here dominated by Arbor (who used to own this pub) and Bristol Beer Factory.
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On one wall is a painting by Kesdrawsfights of the police raid on the squat on Cheltenham Road known as Telepathic Heights which led to the Stokes Croft riots of 2011.
Painted on a wall opposite is a sign to the outdoor heated terrace, which is draped with fairy lights and features a mural of a woodland scene by Silent Hobo, whose characters are also on the outside of the pub.
The outside heated terrace to the side of the Three Tuns – photo: Martin Booth
Above the front door at the Three Tuns – located between Central Library and the Jacob’s Wells Road roundabout – an incongruous character looks down from the pub sign.
For many years, a cardboard cut-out of Nicolas Cage looked down on passers-by from a first-floor window of the pub.
In 2018, then-landlady Jenna Graves – now the owner of the Cloak & Dagger – went one step further and gave the actor a sign all to himself, portraying the Oscar-winning star of Leaving Las Vegas and Con Air as a Napoleonic-era general staring moodily into the middle distance towards Brandon Hill.
The Three Tuns, 78 St George’s Road, Bristol, BS1 5UR
Main photo: Martin Booth
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