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 author of 'Last Orders: A History and Directory of Northampton Pubs' - show some of Northampton's historic stomping grounds.
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5. The Buttock’s Booth in Kettering Road North
The Buttock’s Booth area wasn’t officially part of Northampton until after the Second World War. Such a fantastic name should have been preserved forever, but the council, in their wisdom, decided it was a little too lavatorial and rechristened the whole area as Boothville. As far as I can find, the Buttock’s Booth Inn was roughly where the Lumbertubs now stands. The earliest mention I can find for it was in 1824 and the last in 1840. As a stopping off point on the journey to and from Kettering, it could well have been there for centuries. George Pell was the landlord during its appearances in the newspapers as he advertised his other businesses on a regular basis. He dealt in livestock, but ran quite a number of lime kilns and sold bricks, pots and tiles by the hundred. An application for a hotel was made and turned down for this site in 1937 although it finally opened in 1955 as The Boothville, later becoming the Lumbertubs. Photo: Dave Knibb