Author: Wansteadium

Wanstead Ginger Pig: It’s you wot won it

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The Ginger Pig, now confirmed as opening in Wanstead this summer, will be coming in part thanks to the activity of Wanstead residents.

It was on a Wansteadium post in January which revealed that the former butcher, AG Dennis, had closed that one reader, Paul, left the following comment:

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The idea took root and other readers joined in. Well, they can pat themselves on the back today. Having confirmed its intentions to open here, the Ginger Pig tweeted the following:

The firm’s founder, Tim Wilson, quoted in the Ilford Recorder, said:

“I started farming because I bought an old farm house which felt sad and empty without animals, so I ended up getting a few, which then became the start of the Ginger Pig.

“Similarly Wanstead High Street feels incomplete without a butchers shop and I felt a sense of responsibility to restore what was suddenly missing in Wanstead.”

Mr Wilson said it was “bonkers” to have “a fishmonger, grocer and baker without a butcher”.

He added: “It’s very important to me that the presence of the local butcher in villages, towns and even cities is preserved and encourage so I’m very much looking forward to opening Ginger Pig Wanstead later this year.”

 

These were among the other reactions…

https://twitter.com/chrisbowlz/status/716947122743017472

 

The Ginger Pig confirmation we’ve been waiting for

  The Ginger Pig has confirmed to Wanstead residents who had encouraged it to open a branch that it will in fact be opening seven days a week, hopefully in August.

In an email on Monday morning the company said:

I’m very happy to let you be the first to know that we listened to your suggestion to open a Ginger Pig in Wanstead, and today can finally say that we are officially taking over No. 3 Clock House Parade! 
We plan on re-fitting the shop before opening later in the year, so unfortunately you have to wait a little longer, but hopefully just until August. The shop will trade seven days a week, with opening times to follow shortly on our website. We’ll try and keep everyone as updated as possible via our social media channels, so do keep an eye on those. If you’d like to be signed up to receive our e-newsletters, then please email me back and I’ll add you to the list.

As you’d expect in any of our shops, we will be selling quality fresh meat from native breed animals reared naturally, slowly and from farms employing the highest welfare practices. There will be a good selection on offer from the everyday things such as free range chicken, bacon and pork chops, to roasting joints for the weekend, and meat for special occasions such as dry aged fore ribs of beef and spectacular geese and turkeys at Christmas.

We’ll also have a deli counter serving cold meats sliced to order, homemade patés and readymade dishes such as lasagne, cottage pie and potato gratin. And of course we’ll have our famous sausage rolls and pies.
I can’t wait to meet you very soon, my colleagues and I will be checking on the shop progress throughout the coming months, so if you are passing by the shop pop your head in and say hello!

Thanks, supporters

Thanks to our kind supporters this month, who have helped cover Wansteadium’s running costs by buying stuff through Amazon using the boxes on this page.  The things they have bought include a spool of blue thread, some Miracle-Gro concentrated enriched compost, some DVDs (the Wizard of Oz and Time Bandits), some books (Anya Lipska’s books Death Can’t Take a Joke and Where the Devil Can’t Go) and some Coolers Men’s Garden Beach Yard Pool Mule EVA Clog Shoes. 

PS. Turns out A Spool of Blue Thread is a novel, not a spool of thread. Actual thread is probably better bought at Heads N Tails. 

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