Category: Wansteadium

Wansteadium regular Marcus Tylor suspected post World Cup hi-jinx at the weekend was responsible for this decapitation strategy on the post box on New Wanstead. Alternative explanations welcome in comments, below.

also known as “Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.. WEEEEEEEEE! Oh.”

If you don’t already know what’s happening on Monday, here is the detail of the TFL/TDF map as far as it concerns Wanstead and Snaresbrook.

Local primary schools are allowing pupils to be taken out of school in the afternoon to go and see the race, and shops are getting ready for what isn’t called in France le carnagement du traffic. You can get full details at the TFL site or at Redbridge-i.

Times of route, according to TFL:

First time shown is the “caravan” of freebies etc, second time is the race.

Epping Forest (The Sprint)
       Caravan           12:56
       Race                  14:43
Woodford
       Caravan          13:09
      Race                  14:55
Walthamstow
       Caravan          13:19
        Race                15:04
Leyton
   Caravan              13:25
   Race                    15:09
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
   Caravan              13:26
    Race                    15:11

 

 

Meanwhile Waitrose in South Woodford is being awfully proper about the whole thing, warning customers that because of “a local sporting event a number of roads will be disrupted”.

Update – Waitrose has had second thoughts:

Bus details:

Early speculation that the new ‘flat iron’- style building at Snaresbrook would become a Foxtons turns out to have been wrong – but it is becoming an estate agent.

Signs put up at the office on Wednesday show it will open as a Keaton’s during the summer.

With house prices in London reporting a 25% rise in the past year it’s hardly surprising there is a boom in agents, but this does mean there are at least half a dozen in Wanstead. The office has been standing empty for more than a year since it was built.

Sainsbury’s has confirmed to the Wanstead Guardian that it is “in discussions” to move into the former Barclays site on Wanstead High Street. The bank closed earlier this month after having been operating there since at least 1922.