I usually find a full breakfast at Corley Services on the M6 sets me up for the day. Where exactly is Piebury Corner.I've seen it mentioned but I've never been there
Holloway Road, only about 200 yards from the ground. Someone mentioned in to me last year and I thought it was someone selling pies from their garden, it's actually a large up market deli - all pies named after Arsenal legends, they've recently added some as well, used to be 4 or 5 must be a dozen now. Well worth a visit
Piebury Corner is on the opposite side to the Golden fish bar on the Corner of Avnell Rd. They are quality pies and have got great names too. The Charlie Nicholas, The Tony Adams, The David Rocastle. I think they are a bit pricey to be honest, but they are homemade quality pies. They have done really well for themselves as they've opened a proper shop on Holloway Rd. Two quid for burger and chips at the Golden fish bar is really good value, the burger is a bit cardboardy, but the chips are top quality. When I first started going to Arsenal in 84/85 it used to cost a quid. nearly twenty years later and they've only put their prices up by one pound. Not everybody is out to try and rip off fans.
We obviously drive along Holloway Road to get to the ground but I must admit I've never noticed it. Piebury Corner had a stall at The Prisoner festival at Port Meirion last week so they must be expanding the operation
That figures - a mate of mine said they were homemade by a fan who was fed up with the standard of food in the stadium, made it sound like it was a real amateur affair so when I went I was shocked. Do they still sell from their home as well as the shop ? Re 84/85, any idea how much it cost to stand on the North Bank for a junior ? I think it was 80p !!!
I've not been to the Fish Bar in years and I very rarely go that way nowadays.Where we park the bus means I tend to stay around the Holloway & Hornsey Road areas
Yep, they started out from a Garden right on the corner of Avnell Rd and at the beginning of this year they opened the shop on Holloway Rd. Quality pies I used to belong to the Junior Gunners and it cost £5 membership for the year and £1.80 to stand on the North Bank or in the Junior Gunners enclosure. As part of your membership you also got a members pack with a hat, books, pens and pencils all in a junior Gunners zip up case. I used to get a childs one day travelcard which cost 60p, Ten Marlboro lights 65p, Burger and chips from the Golden fish bar £1 and a programme which was 4O or 5Op
It cost £20 for my 4yr old grandson's Junior Gunners membership this year.Now he's got ticketing rights that'll have to be paid every year.He got his first proper membership card just the other week.
As you know, when I came up to meet up with you and SJW a couple of seasons ago, it was my first time back at Arsenal in many years. I was pleasantly surprised to see the same family running the Fish bar and totally astounded to see that they had only put their prices up by a pound in nearly two decades.
I only went to that area when I went to the Emirates Cup as we got the underground to Arsenal Station.After the game we walked along St Thomas' road as we went to Finsbury Park
I used to drink in the Plimsol Arms on St Thomas' Rd after games. £1.10 for a pint of Fosters in 86/87
When I first started going to games I went with my father and obviously wasn't old enough to drink.When I was old enough to drink being I wasn't familiar with the area I just went to The Gunners.
In 86 I wasn't legally old enough to buy pints in pubs, but I never had a problem in the Plimsol arms
Brilliant ! In 1983 I used to collect my paper round wages of £5.50, didn't bother with a travelcard as you could easily run past the British Rail ticket collector, 10 B&H, 2 pints before the game, 80p to get in North Bank, programme and a Casey Jones cheeseburger at Charing Cross station on the way home and I still had enough money for a few smokes for the week. Fun times, very few responsibilities and no grey hair !!!
We went decimal on February 15th,I always remember the date as it was my best mate's birthday. I'm wrong about saying I started my paper round in 1971 as it was actually 1970 and I got 15 shillings a week wages.
**** me, no wonder you're always so bloody pessimistic, breakfast is the most important meal of the day! How do you deal with the fuzzy wuzzys?
I remember Casey jones at Charing Cross Where abouts were you from fella? I used to get the train from Charing cross to Lewisham or Lee Green - I lived at the far end of Burnt ash Rd in between the two. I only used to get a travelcard because the ticket inspectors at Leicester Sq and Arsenal tube station were so hawkish, but you're right it was easy to get past the inspectors at Charing X as there were so many people going past. I moved out of London in 93 around and moved back briefly in 2000. When I first got on a train without a ticket then I didn't realise that they'd put ****ing electronic ticket barriers at all the stations. I remember having to get a train from Lewisham back up to London Bridge, then back to Hither Green where I knew a spot at the end of one of the platforms where you could jump the wall into a mates back garden
