0820: Tfl reports a limited service running between Epping and Woodford via Hainault to Mile End.
Live departure boards for Snaresbrook here and Wanstead here. Snaresbrook currently showing a 9-min wait for Leytonstone train, and Wanstead showing three trains for Marble Arch, 2,3 and 11 minutes away.
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It’s not clear exactly why the potentially magnificent 22 Grosvenor Road has been boarded up for so long. But for the past few days a ladder-bicycle combo has appeared, looking for all the world like the equipment of a slightly shambolic window cleaner. Since there are no windows – or at least none with any obvious glass – there must be some other explanation…
Starbucks in Wanstead is full to bursting with prams, wags a v noisy children….leave me and my latte in peace
Lee Thompson
SideshowLee
On this night in 1940, at 12.15am, four people were trapped in a house on Hermon Hill after high explosives were dropped by German planes. The gas main was also broken. A few minutes earlier, at 12.10am, high explosives burst a water main at Snaresbrook Station. Then at 12.21am, a house on Monmouth Drive was demolished by explosives, and at 12.23, the gas main at Southview Drive was broken by more bombs.
…and thanks for all the fish. The Wanstead branch of the restaurant changed hands in February – the one in the City remains – and has revealed what it is to be called. (Thanks to @nick_affleck for the photo.) Welcome and good luck – though isn’t the thought of green fish a bit Cat in the Hat?
On this night in 1940, at 12.43am, German planes dropped high explosives on Sylvan Road, bursting a water main. At 12.20, high explosives were dropped on Hollybush Hill, and at 10.08am an unexploded bomb in large crater which was 4ft deep was dealt with by the bomb disposal squad.
