The Search For Another Arthur
When: Tuesday, 17 July 2012 Where: Cockfosters Station and surrounds. Cockfosters is the northern terminus for the Piccadilly line on the London Underground. At the end of a day in the 'City' I left Bank station at around 4:45 changing at King's Cross onto the Piccadilly line for the assault on the Cockfoster. The tube train that I got on was one of the older rolling stock that rattled along on a muggy, damp early evening in what is supposed to be summer in this merry England. As we passed through stations on the line passengers departed for their own suburban lives in Southgate or Arnos Grove, leaving the carriage more and more deserted until finally on leaving Oakwood, the penultimate stop, the carriage was all my own. And the next carriage too. It was solely occupied by a young Spanish couple who proceeded to Lambada up and down their new found freedom all the way to Cockfosters. Cockfosters is probably ten miles from the city centre, a slice of genuine...