So many fondly-remembered Northampton pubs have shut their doors over the years but are still in the memories of their customers.
These photos - researched by Dave Knibb, the Northampton author of 'Last Orders: A History and Directory of Northampton Pubs' - show some of the Northampton's old stomping grounds.
Do you remember stopping for a drink in any of them?
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9. Forest Oak in Lawrence Street
David said: "Lawrence Street was built in the 1860’s and ran from Barrack Road through to Bailiff Street. Amazingly enough, within 10 years it housed five pubs, one on each end and three more on the corners of other small roads leading off it. The Forest Oak appeared in 1864, seemed a decent enough place with various groups meeting up there over the years. A tragedy occurred in 1904 when the landlord, Joseph Whitehouse was in a scuffle with a customer named Henry Redding over a bar bill of six pence. Whitehouse banged his head and died shortly after. Redding went on trial for manslaughter, but despite witnesses saying they saw Redding punch Whitehouse in the face, the jury returned a verdict of ‘not guilty’. The pub was closed down and compensated for in 1920. Although Lawrence Street is long gone, a Lawrence Court runs off Lorne Road and the site of the pub is smack bang in the middle of where the Court branches off in two directions."
10. The Kingsley Arms in Oliver Street
Dave said: "The Kingsley Arms isn’t mentioned in any directory or in any newspaper I’ve seen, but thanks to my old friend Graham Moseley (see Acknowledgments), it has become a well known place on the history site circuit. The Kingsley Estate was built by the Freehold Land Society in the 1870’s. In 1890, a John Garrett was listed as a beer retailer in Oliver Street but with no number so we can assume that this was the Kingsley Arms. The part of its life as the Kingsley Arms seems to have revolved around Henry Reeve, who was a Corn Merchant as well as a beer retailer. His son died during the First World War and 65 Oliver Street was given as his address, and another son, another Henry, built up the corn Merchant business, eventually moving to Walgrave. When his estate was sold at auction, it included 11 houses in Oliver Street and four in Milton Street, so although things got bigger and better, Kingsley was still in the family’s hearts."