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Silver Fox Pub Finsbury Park?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 12:56 pm
by Marx
I wonder if anyone can recall an 'Art Deco public bar' opposite Finsbury Park station, and in the actual forecourt....................
I think from memory, that it was called either the Silver Fox, or Silver link?
The pub sinage was in chrome (LNER style?) I seem to remember a chrome silver fox but time is the greatest eraser of memory..................as we know!
Now sadly gone, or renamed, I passed it many times but never went in. It was obviously associated with the trains/engines that passed through Finsbury Park in the 1930s.............
If anyone could throw some light on the history, or name, I would be most greatful.
Kindest regards
Marx
Re: Silver Fox Pub Finsbury Park?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 3:30 pm
by hq1hitchin
It was called the Silver Bullet, Marx and looked rather art deco from the outside, although I never went in. Can't help with the history of the pub but can be pretty sure it was named after The Silver Jubilee train.
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/ ... 7317c8.jpg
Re: Silver Fox Pub Finsbury Park?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 4:43 pm
by Marx
Ah.Many,many thanks hq1hitchin.Yes,I recall now..................
Marx
Re: Silver Fox Pub Finsbury Park?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 7:40 pm
by PinzaC55
It was a big favourite with Kings Cross Guards and Drivers and I remember on at least one occasion a Guard whose nickname was "The Drunken Tramp" went missing for the train he was supposed to relieve at Finsbury Park and they found him sozzled in the "Bullet".
Re: Silver Fox Pub Finsbury Park?
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:31 pm
by StevieG
...Not the chap also known as 'Catweazle' by any chance? ... whom I first, and often, met in another capacity, in early '70s I think, at the Barnet Model Railway Club. (This gent was well-spoken, and sounded well-educated; not at all the sort of person you would expect if judging by his appearance alone.)
Re: Silver Fox Pub Finsbury Park?
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 12:10 am
by PinzaC55
StevieG wrote:...Not the chap also known as 'Catweazle' by any chance? ... whom I first, and often, met in another capacity, in early '70s I think, at the Barnet Model Railway Club. (This gent was well-spoken, and sounded well-educated; not at all the sort of person you would expect if judging by his appearance alone.)
No lolz! We used to have a guy nicknamed Catweazle at London Bridge and one of the RMT guys raised a query from him about accidentally getting splashed with cleaning fluid going through the carriage washer!
