In G2 today, Mary Mount tells the story of the London legends, Chet and Joe Okonkwo, who became regular fixtures outside Highbury and Islington tube in the 1980s, hanging out by what was known as 'the Bar'.
Mount recalls: "The Bar served no food or drink, it offered no shelter from the weather, and there was no music. It was, in fact, just a bar - a yellow and black horizontal pole that stopped cars from entering the road by the station."
Chet and Joe were twins of Nigerian origin who lived in a flat in Highbury with their mum. They would head to the Bar each day after their morning paper round was complete, dressed in amazing identical outfits, mixing odd shoes, hard hats and tailored suits.
They developed quite a following. As Joe explains: "If you stand in the same place every day you start to recognise people and they start to recognise you. You feel you know them, even if you've never exchanged a word. A boy would bring his sister, his sister would bring a friend and it just grew."
Here they would give advice to anyone who wanted it, talk about everything from philosophy to jam doughnuts and fantasise about an elite existence in the future.
Were you one of the people who spent time at the Bar? Or do you remember spotting the twins around town? Share your memories of Chet and Joe here.
