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It’s true. If you wish to donate Easter Eggs for children at Haven House, you can do it through W. English funeral directors on George Lane. If you wish to donate money directly to Haven House you can do so here.
Geoff Wilkinson writes on Wanstead Daily Photo: “Remember the famous Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window about the photographer with the broken leg who spends all day looking out of the window at his neighbours? This is a slightly different take viewed through the rear view mirror of my car with all these motorcycle policemen behind me. Not that I was being a bad boy they were just on their way to help at Bob Crow’s funeral last week at the City of London Crematorium. Just so you know I wasn’t driving when I took this picture.”
Nifty bit of work by Jason Harris and folk at T-Space architects, based in the Corner House. In the first picture, from 1905, the Corner House is just 15 years old. Much has changed, he writes, but the chestnut fencing has endured. Jason has started keeping a Tumblr blog with the refreshingly honest description “one of Wanstead’s architects”. You can follow it here.
A new wave of pay and display parking is starting its introduction today before being rolled out across Snaresbrook, Wanstead and Aldersbrook.
Rodney Road, on the northerly edge of the wards, is one of the first to have the new regulations, and signs have now been installed there. They will follow for the rest of the Nightingale Estate before work starts later this week on the Counties and all rounds surrounding the High Street. It means that all cars will have to have a new parking sticker each day – it’s thought a system of residents’ parking permits which had been planned has been held up due to a software error.
Any residents who have not arranged for stickers before noon today are advised that a grace period has been arranged, and that if they add their names to the comments field below, their cars should not be towed away.
A big weekend for Wanstead author Anya Lipska, who featured in an erudite article in the Independent on Sunday about the growth of Polish fiction.
Boyd Tonkin wrote that “a new wave of Polish crime writers… may soon challenge Nordic noir among connoisseurs of European skullduggery”, adding that Polish crime often takes its cue from the secrets, lies and tragedies embedded in an eventful recent past.
That’s certainly true for Lipska’s excellent second novel which she will be discussing at a Wansteadium event at the Larder on Thursday from 7pm. As well as the Polish side, the book tells a vivid tale about life in this part of East London too. Do come along if you’re interested – and if you missed our exclusive extract of the book you can see it here.
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Geoff Wilkinson writes on Wanstead Daily Photo: “I haven’t seen this for years, not since I was a child, a pavement artist working in chalk. I remember seeing them on days out in ‘the West End’ but on Monday I came across one here in Wanstead High Street. I asked the gentleman about the picture he had drawn, he explained that ‘it was a generic English scene not of anyone place’ and invited me to take a picture. His skill in calligraphy was also obvious as you can see by the ‘thank you’ note next to his hat. He was reading, I enquired about the book, he explained that it was about Medieval architecture and garden design. I said goodbye and left him in peace to continue reading his book.”
