Cotswold pub popular with racing community closes doors
The Hollow Bottom previously closed in 2019 and was purchased and reopened by the Lucky Onion, a hospitality group owned by Julian Dunkerton, the founder of Superdry.Young's bought it in 2022. They announced that the pub was closing on Sunday."We would like to thank the local community for their support over the last five years. We will be in contact directly with any customers who have future bookings with the pub."
Now a groom for Jonjo O'Neill, Ms Collinson said "every Christmas party and many birthday celebrations" were spent at the Hollow Bottom when she worked for Twiston-Davies, who is based in nearby Naunton.Ms Collinson said she helped take three winning horses, including Imperial Commander down to the "absolutely heaving" Hollow Bottom on Gold Cup Day 2010."There were people on the flat roof above the door, the cars couldn't get through on the road, it was amazing."It was like leading him back in on the racecourse all over again... We piled down the Hollow Bottom to celebrate it for days."
Ms Collinson said the pub was "wild" after every meet, regardless of the time of year."A piece of my heart will always be at the Hollow Bottom, when we celebrated winners and had those Christmas parties there and had a lot of fun with the best friends," she said."It was the best times and I'll never forget them."
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