Category: Wansteadium
Wanstead noticeboard: Christmas church services
Christmas Services in Wanstead Churches are as follows:
CHRIST CHURCH, WANSTEAD PLACE
Christmas Eve:
Crib service with carols, 4pm
Family Eucharist with carols, 6pm
Midnight mass with carols, 11.30pm
Christmas Day
Said Service: 8am
OUR LADY OF LOURDES RC, CAMBRIDGE PARK
Christmas Eve:
Children’s Mass 5pm
Christmas Mass 7pm
Carol Service 11.30pm
Midnight Mass, 12.00 midnight
Christmas Day
Mass at 9.30am and 11.30am (no evening mass)
ST MARY’S, OVERTON DRIVE
Christmas Day
Family Eucharist with carols, 11am
WANSTEAD METHODIST CHURCH, HERMON HILL
Christmas Eve
Young people’s service, 4pm
Late night communion, 11.15pm
Christmas Day
Family Worship 10am (at Wanstead URC, below)
WANSTEAD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, NIGHTINGALE LANE
Christmas Eve
Late night communion, 11.15pm (at Wanstead Methodist Church, above)
Christmas Day
Family Worship, 10am
Snowhawk
Picture from Wanstead’s Carole Edrich (@CE_images) – the definitive view of Wanstead in the snow perhaps (though @grimnorth has done some nice work here).
More on Wanstead and Wikileaks
It was true that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had his pre-arrest breakfast in Wanstead, as Wansteadium reported last week. Mark Stephens, Assange’s lawyer, told the Wanstead Guardian that he and his client went to the Bungalow Cafe on Spratt Hall Road, rather shocking some builders (and at least one PR man, our source, tweeter @maxdaviespr).
Stephens, who has lived in Wanstead for 36 years, told the paper he believed his house was under surveillance, believing it was an attempt by someone to try to scare him. (Unusually, there is no link to the story in the online version of the Wanstead Guardian.)
Last chance for library
In these days of cuts, lots of libraries may be facing their final days. Wanstead’s too is closing – but just for six weeks as of Monday [20 December] to allow self-service tills to be installed. As Wansteadium previously reported, there are some benefits here – but most explicitly that they will allow the rather outdated practice of closing on Wednesdays to become a thing of the past.
And the prospect of whole hosts of books becoming overdue while the library was shut has been averted – all books are being stamped with a return date of 4 February – double the normal time.
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Wanstead News roundup, 16.12.10; Harry, Year, Windows
• It may seem like ancient history, but the case of former Leyton and Wanstead MP Harry Cohen, who was censured after the MPs’ expenses scandal, is not over. New evidence has come to light, the House of Commons Standards and Privileges committee has said, meaning Mr Cohen could yet claim a £65,000 award usually made to MPs who step down. More details
• The Mike Leigh film Another Year, which is set in Wanstead, is one of the films of the year as chosen by the New Statesman’s excellent film critic, Ryan Gilbey (who is also set in Wanstead).
• Who would have thought some new windows in flats above a shop could be interesting? Wanstead’s Smarter High Street campaign, now with an introductory video, below, tells the tale behind the new frames above Judith of Wanstead.
The Smarter High Street Campaign for Wanstead from Smarter High Street on Vimeo.