N5 Highbury
Collecting buckets near Highbury Fields in the 1980s |
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Highbury Fields was a great place to live as a student in the 1980s. It was during the Miners Strike. I'd come to London from a mining area of Yorkshire and used to try and put something in the collecting buckets when anyone was standing outside the tube station collecting for the unions. Higbury Fields seemed very grand and stylish to me. I now realise north Islington at that time was an incubator for Tony Blair's new Labour Party. |
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We also used to drink in a pub on Holloway Road, a very different feel though only a short distance apart, where more collecting went on. This time the buckets were for catholic organisations in Belfast. One of my grandfathers was a London Irish catholic. I sometimes felt uneasy in there with my best friend who was English-public-school educated and wouldn't concede at the pool table. My student room was in the home of an activist couple on Ronald's Road. The rent included babysitting for their two daughters, Hannah and Ellie. That household inspired me in ways they won't have realsied and I sometimes think of them now. I have two daughters myself, the older one is also called Hannah. |
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