The streets are still crowded and the roads are still congested, but whilst the tram may have gone, along with the trolley buses and the Routemasters, the Boris bus is moving hundreds of thousands of people around London every day. Who of a certain age, would ever forget the first time they saw the screaming Beetles fans or Watch with Mother! Today we have the internet with its instant access to pretty much everything, including Arments pie and mash! Later the popularity of the radio was replaced by the television. Families would have gathered around the radios for entertainment and to hear the outbreak of the Second World War. We met and fell in love with Charlie Chaplin and the silent movies. In fact I wonder if they could have ever imagined London, and indeed the world, 103 years later!ĭuring the 103 years Arments have been trading there have been many changes, events and inventions. I wonder if they could ever have imagined the same family would still be running the same business 103 years later. In those days the shop was decorated with glazed wall tiles, marble table tops, opening sash windows and saw dust on the floor!…And a pie cost 2d! Emily, William and sister Liz, would have worked long hours in the dimly lit shop preparing the pies and potatoes entirely by hand. What has George the penny seen? When George left the Royal Mint on Tower Hill in The City of London and entered circulation, the world was a very different place! Transport was predominately horse drawn, the streets were cobbled, homes and streets were lit by gas.Īrments was one of many traditional pie and eel houses feeding Londoners the first fast food Eel pie, mash and liquor. As I looked at the George V penny, I was struck by the date – 1914 – the year Roy’s Grandparents, William and Emily Arment, bought the pie and eel business in Walworth from the Evans family…103 years ago, just three months before the outbreak of the First World War. At first thinking it a 2p piece, I picked it up to set it aside only to realise that the darkened, worn copper coin in my hand was in fact an old penny piece. Whilst sorting through some of our old shop boxes recently, I came across a dusty coin between some papers. A Penny for your Thoughts…Arments 103rd Birthday!
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