Silver Fox Pub Finsbury Park?

[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

[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.

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[Marx]

Ah.Many,many thanks hq1hitchin.Yes,I recall now..................

Marx

[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".

[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.)

[PinzaC55]

...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!