Tribute to Griffin Park

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A tribute to Griffin Park. I had the opportunity to pub crawl all four pubs before kickoff. Brentford’s last season there.
Author

Robert W. Walker

Published

October 23, 2019

Ode to Griffin Park

Griffin Park’s famous four corners make it the only football ground in England with four pubs on the four corners surrounding the ground.

Here’s a link to the curated twitter thread.

In the Beginning

Starting

The Griffin

The Griffin

To the Brook

A Walk

The Brook

Up New

Sussex Best at the Brook

Sussex Best

The Garden

Up New

Up New Road

Up New

The New Road Gate at Griffin Park

Gate

The New Inn

New Inn

Doom Bar

DoomBar

Rules on the Main – Ealing – Road

Rules

The Arsenal Game

Gunners

The Princess Royal

Princess Royal

London Pride

Enter Here

Auba

To my seat

Enter Here

Great Seat – Pitch Side

Pitch Side

Eaves Really isn’t Good

Eaves

Tied at Half

HalfTime Tie

Final: 1-1

End of Game

Queueing for the Tubes

Human Mass

My Signed Momento

Ticket

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