NEHL - Cock Fighting took place at Fighting Cocks Lane in the up until (and likely after) the ban on the sport in the 19th century. This is both telling by the name and documentary evidence reported in the Sunderland Echo of January 1934, when a historic piece reported on the public cockpit in the area. It also states cockpits were at Black Cock Open and every big house in the area. The entrance to the lane was next to the Grey Horse Pub.