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Football crowds outside Gillespie Road Underground station (Arsenal from 1933), Piccadilly line. The high angled view shows crowds of men wearing suits with cloth caps or straw boaters, filling the street outside the Underground station.
Events and recreation
Sign: UndergrounD
Station: Gillespie Rd
Sign: Gillespie Road N
Gillespie Road, Islington N5
Crowds of men wearing suits and cloth caps or straw hats outside Gillespie Road Underground station
Islington
Football fans leaving Gillespie Road Underground station going to an Arsenal match
Sport
Cheerful football fans leave Gillespie Road Underground station on their way to an Arsenal match at Highbury Stadium. The station had to cope with peak crowds of 20,000 people, arriving then departing in the 50-minute periods before and after matches.
The first Arsenal team, set up in 1886, worked at the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory, hence the name of the football club and its nickname, 'The Gunners'. The team moved to Highbury in 1913 and rejoined the First Division in 1919, staying in the top division for the rest of the 20th century.
In the year this picture was taken, the team's manager, the influential Herbert Chapman, had the station renamed after the football club. Some people were opposed to the name change, which effectively secured free promotion for the club, but Chapman's intensive lobbying eventually overcame the objections.
This station facade was demolished when the station was remodelled in 1933.
Football Clubs and Stadiums
Underground Stations
Topical Press
events and recreation, islington, men, piccadilly
51.54604814823127, -0.10440230369567871
1 | Publisher: | http://www.ltmcollection.org/ | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | ltmcollection.org/1998/84447 | Go to resource |
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