The DH Lawrence Society is an august institution based in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the former coalmining town where Lawrence was born in 1885. So when it teamed up with the local newspaper, the Eastwood Advertiser, to ask readers to vote for the name of a new pub, one might have expected a choice from the respectable end of his oeuvre – The Rainbow, perhaps, or, for a bit of added glamour, The Plumed Serpent.

But no. Beneath a notice in the Advertiser that the next DH Lawrence Society talk would be Helen Baron on Lawrence's Exploitation of Trains in his Fiction comes a slightly surprising announcement: "The DH Lawrence Society is delighted that readers of this paper voted to name the new public house on the Nottingham Road The Lady Chatterley and are looking forward to the opening on Midsummer's Day, June 24, when it is hoped, subject to the agreement of Wetherspoons, that members will be able to assist with the appropriate launch of this venue by reading some short passages from Lady Chatterley's Lover and other works by DH Lawrence."

Sadly, for decoration of the opening event, it will take place after the forget-me-not season is over, but which passages, one wonders, will they choose?

Perhaps: "Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing."

The relationship between literature and pubs goes all the way back to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with the names of many writers' fictional drinking establishments cropping up in real life. There are Boar's Heads all the way from Stratford-on-Avon to Stratford, Ontario, while George Orwell claims a special distinction: the Manchester pub named after his 1946 essay describing his fantasy watering hole, The Moon Under Water, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest in the UK.

Which other works of literature would you like to see immortalised in a pub? Let us know what, where and why, and you never know – you may get a call from a well-known chain of family hostelries.