BARNET AT THE BLACK HORSE IN 1896/97 IN THEIR BLACK & VIOLET COLOURS



A LOCAL DERBY

BARNET V BARNET AVENUE,

"AS IT HAPPENED HOWEVER, THE ROUGH, NOT TO SAY FOUL PLAY , OF THE AVENUE AVAILED THEM LITTLE, AND THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MUCH TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HAD MATTERS STOPPED THERE, BUT AN EMPHATIC `AVENUE` FOLLOWING CONTINUALLY BROKE OVER THE LINE AND IN FITS AND STARTS, INDULGED IN SUCH `RECHERCHE` LANGUAGE AS TO CAUSE THE RETIREMENT EN MASSE OF THE LADIES WHO HAD GRACED THE SCENE WITH THEIR PRESENCE

EXTRACT BARNET TIMES , SEPTEMBER 1898

ALSO THE NORTH MIDDLESEX LEAGUE MATCH BETWEEN THE TWO CLUBS IN 1894/95 `CAUSED RAMIFICATIONS WHICH LASTED FOR TWO MONTHS` !
APPARENTLY THESE FEUDS WERE OFTEN CARRIED ON IN THE EVENINGS IN THE LOCAL PUBS. BARNET AVENUE HEADQUARTERS WERE THE RISING SUN IN THE HIGH STREET, NEAR WHERE THE POST OFFICE IS NOW AND THAT OF BARNET WAS THE OLD SALISBURY HOTEL IN THE HIGH STREET, WITH CHANGING ROOMS AT THE BLACK HORSE, WOOD STREET.