Buckenhams Locksmiths on Blackstock Road, just around the corner from our old Highbury home, is the very epitome of a family business – and is delighted to be taken into the Arsenal family, as our latest Supporting Supporters initiative.
Fourth-generation locksmith, Jack Romero takes up the story.
“My great grandfather, Arty Buckenham, started the business in 1959 with just one key cutter to his name. His daughter Jen and her husband Don – my grandma and grandad – then joined the business in 1970 (in time for Arsenal’s ‘double’!) and they are still working there today. As is my mum, Helen, and – since 2012, when I joined straight from school aged 16 – me too, so it really is a family business.