Peter Fonda’s Basic Soup – Camden Town – The Great Bear – Stop #21

A perfect end to our Great Bear Project!  The last of our movie star meals on a tube station platform was scheduled to be Camden Town, reimagined by Simon Patterson as Peter Fonda.

Right at the bottom of the two arms held high of the Northern Line.

It was momentous and portentous and lots of other things ending in “ous” as Camden Town was the place myself and Mr Rathbone met, in 2013 on a blind date.  So we decided that after we’d had a slurp of soup on the platform, we’d go to the pub where we very first met for two pints of beer,

and then to the pub round the corner where we’d gone for a third.

That third one basically sealed the deal and now, of course we are HITCHED.  One of the reasons I married Mr Rathbone is that he wholeheartedly joins in with mad projects like this one. If you are single and looking for love, I say look for someone who is a GOOD SPORT. He even volunteered to cook the very last dish of this escapade, going to his local butcher to score a hambone.

What a guy.  Let me tell you folks, his soup was DELICIOUS!  Really so good. He can make it for me again any time!

Duly presented to the roundel in a thermos.

and scoffed on the platform as per tradition.

We reminisced about the night we met thanks to our lovely mutual friend Chlöe who thought we might hit it off.  My goodness she was so right!

I love the Hawley and I love that man!  He offered to chum me to the bus stop and I suggested we stop off for a nightcap at a pub en route called Quinns. When we went in, he was greeted by name by the landlord, Vince which really made me laugh. I thought I was introducing him to a hidden gem and it was like we’d walked into Cheers where everybody knows your name.  Mr R couldn’t resist re-enacting the stance he took at the bar thirteen years ago which was the precise moment I thought to myself, “Hmm, I quite fancy this fellow.”

The rest is history!

Here’s Peter’s soup – well OK Peter’s wife’s soup, but he offered it up as a favourite so that counts.  Do try it, highly recommended.

Mr Rathbone’s Tube Trivia

Camden Town Underground opened in June 1907 and was originally part of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, providing an interchange for trains to either Edgware or Highgate (now Archway) which was at that time the terminus of the current High Barnet branch. When the City & South London Railway (now the Bank branch of the Northern Line) extended their line from Euston to Camden Town in 1923, it necessitated the building of the most complex junction on the Underground system, featuring the most active points, operating every couple of minutes as this short feature explains.