Author: Wansteadium

  Geoff Wilkinson writes on Wanstead Daily Photo: “This picture will take a little explaining. There are two lovely old Victorian water pumping stations fed by the river Roding near Wanstead, unfortunately they are not open to the public. However I managed to get this picture with a telephoto lens, you can just see some of the machinery inside. Unfortunately it doesn’t look to me like the original working parts which in their own way were beautiful but you can’t have everything. What I really like in addition to the machinery is the colour of the sky reflected in the window and the peeling glass window frame, it’s a little off beat but I do like it.”

No.1 in a series: Sign-writing

 

… and hello to – well, something new. The recently renovated cafe (which Wansteadium saw as blatant and rather nice gentrification) will be renamed on Friday. The decision by new owner Jay Singh to keep the Mario’s name after the cafe was reopened did raise some eyebrows, but it was just a temporary measure.

We will post a picture of the new signs once they are revealed to the High Street.

In a move which Sir Humphrey Appleby might have described as “brave”, Redbridge Council has launched a borough-wide consultation on parking – an issue on which nearly everyone has strong feelings one way or another.

The online consultation, which runs until the end of August, has been launched with the goal of making the council’s approach to parking “consistent and fair”, though those who were involved in the Wanstead Parking Wars (a longstanding Wansteadium subject) will remember the case being made against the same rules applying in Wanstead as in other parts of the borough.

Council officers may well suspect that they will end up pleasing no-one – and one question in the consultation appears to recognise the often polar divisions on the subject. Participants are asked to select up to three of the following as priorities:

The full consultation can be found here, along with a list of FAQs.

 

 

Yes… The long empty former pet shop is to become a hair and beauty boutique, making at least six such shops on the High Street. Presumably the demand is there, so it’s hard to argue with.