Category: Wansteadium

Congratulations to Zoology, which has been shortlisted for best local salon in the UK by Creative Head magazine. It is up against four other hairdressers in the awards which will take place at Tate Modern in September.

Head zoologist Mark Mountney reckons the shortlisting is their biggest achievement so far. He said:  “I was bought up in Wanstead and went to school at Wanstead High and I’ve only ever worked in Wanstead.

“I started my business in 1996, Marks Of Wanstead, which was where Envi nails is now, just next door. That was 18 years ago. Then in 2002 we moved to where we are now, into what was the controversial ‘M11 Link Road office’, and way before that used to be the Wanstead Library.”

The pictures below, a touch out of order, give a flavour of the times. As Wansteadium noted earlier this month, though, the row between Sumo Fresh and the soon-to-be Long Horn is now looking particularly smart.

Shame. Tonight's #area1 council meeting is cancelled. Wansteadium discovered this in the most analogue way possible. pic.twitter.com/TGPIHnN9p3

— Wansteadium (@Wansteadium) June 23, 2014

Geoff Wilkinson writes on Wanstead Daily Photo: “Mrs W spotted this wonderful sky late yesterday evening. I popped along to one of my favourite sky ‘locations’, the footbridge over the A12 and managed to get these two pictures before it disappeared.”

…but will it be welcome?

There may have been sceptics among us who thought that the rather late “pollarding” of the magnificent plane trees on Wanstead High Street was rather reckless, as shown below. But we were assured that the trees were robust, and would sprout into life. And the experts were right – all is well with the world.