Wansteadium

With thanks to Wansteadium reader Martin Talbot who winkled this update out of M&S:

Cuckfield customers seeking trendy new microbrewery real ales are asking for pints of this particular tipple. What they would get is certainly pale.

Lots of Xmas events coming up in Wanstead  (and any organisers who have not yet let Wanstead Social Diary organiser Stephanie Pettigrew have details for inclusion in our events guide, please contact her here). But these two are currently standing out…

Firstly the return of the Local Makers Market, last seen during the Fringe when it was known as the Wanstead Makers Market. It has grown since then to take in other parts of East London – and anyone who has been will know it is a classy event and ideal for original presents.

And then later in the day, the Redbridge Brass Band – which is celebrating being named one of the UK’s top 10 brass bands – is presenting three performances of The Snowman with a live soundtrack. Not sure it could get more Christmassy than that.

 

 

 

Wanstead’s new Superdrug can only be days away from opening. The products have arrived – lipsticks, nail varnish, make-up.  Clearly scotching rumours put about by the builders…. (see below).

 

Wanstead’s last remaining High Street bank is apparently safe from a widespread branch closure plan announced on Friday by RBS/NatWest.

179 NatWest branches across the country are closing by the middle of 2018, but Wanstead is not on the list. A large number of customers still use the branch, including many elderly people and Wanstead traders, so there will be plenty of sighs of relief.

Closures of the HSBC and Santander in the past year, which followed Barclays, leave the NatWest as the last bank standing. The Nationwide Building Society also remains.

(HT J Wagstaff Esq)

Wansteadium reader Sue writes: 

“We’ve been having real problems for a month now with our Vodafone supply in Aldersbrook. Calls cut out after one minute or simply can’t make calls. Vodafone won’t take ownership of the problem. I had yet another chat with them today- on my landline – and they said it’s not a Vodafone problem as the mast is working ok but the signal for some unexplained reason “Perhaps a new building has gone up” meant the signal isn’t getting into the houses of one or two postcodes so it’s a coverage problem.”

Anyone else experiencing similar problems?