AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
This article is part of the series which traces the origins of Woolwich Arsenal FC and its ultimate move to Highbury. An index of the articles from the very start of the series is published here , and details of how this links in with our other now series on the history of Arsenal …
Read More “Arsenal 1913/14 and when and we went back to the Plumstead ground”
By Tony Attwood This series of articles traces the history of Arsenal FC from its earliest days in south London through to is move to the north of the city, and from it being a struggling league club to one that was highly successful. The most recent articles in this story are 1909/10 …
Read More “How Tottenham worked to stop Arsenal moving to Highbury”
This series follows the journey of Wolwich Arsenal from Plumstead to Highbury . The series starts with the article “Just what have been Arsenal’s greatest achievements” and continues from there on this site. By Tony Attwood In the last episode (Planning the revolution: Arsenal move from Plumstead to Highbury) we had Henry Norris revealing (before he …
Read More “Arsenal’s chairman announces the idea Arsenal’s possible move to north London”
By Tony Attwood I concluded the last episode of this series saying, “We don’t know when Henry Norris first hit on the idea of taking Arsenal to a location both close to Tottenham’s ground, and immediately served by the newly constructed but already hugely popular underground railway system, but it may well have …
Read More “Planning the revolution: Arsenal move from Plumstead to Highbury”
By Tony Attwood This series of articles concerning Arsenal’s earliest days playing in Plumstead, begins with the article “Why Arsenal joined the Football League rather than the Southern League” There are one or two other articles on the site along the way, but if you keep moving forward from there you can follow the story of …
Read More “1910/11: the first inkling of the idea of moving Arsenal to north London”
