Category: Wansteadium

The bees have it

Regular readers will know of the Seeds for Snaresbrook campaign run by Friends of the Earth which encouraged residents to adopt a tree pit, ie the bit round the bottom of street trees, in order to avoid pesticide being sprayed on them. The idea was to plant them with flower seeds to assist bees as they navigate through E11.

These pictures taken in Grosvenor Road look pretty impressive, but there must surely be contenders from other streets for best pit in Wanstead? Please post photos on social media mentioning Wansteadium so that we can find them, or email them directly to us at info@wansteadium.com.

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Letter to Wansteadium: Keep ‘Toytown’

Wansteadium reader Roger Estop writes:

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There was a vigorous discussion on this site last week about the possibility of Wanstead losing I&K Brown’s garage. Several people have now objected to the plans, though others have questioned whether it’s a building worth saving. I believe the garage is one of those semi-precious buildings that makes a place special. This ‘toy-town’ repair garage is a delightful feature of the Christchurch ‘village’, along with the picturesque cottage opposite, the old fire station and the old police station. What is the point of a conservation area? Remove quirky, non-conforming, slightly shabby personalities and homogenise it? Or adapt the old buildings to something new and vital? Losing the distinctive building front damages character; the proposal is as lifeless as graph paper and does precisely nothing to enhance anything. Walk from Tarzy Wood to Christchurch – enjoy the variety and surprise while you can. This is Wanstead.

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Geoff Wilkinson writes on Wanstead Daily Photo: “I came across this shop window that intrigued me, it’s on Aldersbrook Road. As I have mentioned quite a few of the shops appear to have closed down in this row, this one however had this pile of broomsticks in the window. Unfortunately the shop was closed for the night but I will go back and try to find out if there is a broom maker there. I just loved the soft evening light falling on on the wood and the old fashioned window, glad to see perhaps another cottage industry locally.”