Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the car and drive to Aldersbrook…

Gulp… Blake Hell Part Four is coming

 

Photo: Andrea Waller
Photo: Andrea Waller

Anger, frustration, irritation, foreboding – some of the emotions greeting the news that the fourth instalment of Blake Hell Road is being planned for up to 20 weeks starting in June.

Residents have been told by National Grid that the work to replace metal gas mains with plastic pipes will start on 20 June.

The roadworks for the previous two bouts of work – over Christmas and summer last year – have meant temporary lights and looong delays in both direction.

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People are not happy…

https://twitter.com/ahgreenie/status/720344085937197056

 

Mysterious and potentially worrying, but…

IMG_1032…not actually in Wanstead. It happened in Woodford.

Number five in a series of things which didn’t actually happen in Wanstead, including such classics as:

“Fascinating but…” (August 2014)

 

 

“It’s good but..” (July 2014)

 

 

“Horrible, but…” (June 2014)

 

 

“Not in Wanstead” (November 2011)

 

Wanstead Ginger Pig: It’s you wot won it

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The Ginger Pig, now confirmed as opening in Wanstead this summer, will be coming in part thanks to the activity of Wanstead residents.

It was on a Wansteadium post in January which revealed that the former butcher, AG Dennis, had closed that one reader, Paul, left the following comment:

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The idea took root and other readers joined in. Well, they can pat themselves on the back today. Having confirmed its intentions to open here, the Ginger Pig tweeted the following:

The firm’s founder, Tim Wilson, quoted in the Ilford Recorder, said:

“I started farming because I bought an old farm house which felt sad and empty without animals, so I ended up getting a few, which then became the start of the Ginger Pig.

“Similarly Wanstead High Street feels incomplete without a butchers shop and I felt a sense of responsibility to restore what was suddenly missing in Wanstead.”

Mr Wilson said it was “bonkers” to have “a fishmonger, grocer and baker without a butcher”.

He added: “It’s very important to me that the presence of the local butcher in villages, towns and even cities is preserved and encourage so I’m very much looking forward to opening Ginger Pig Wanstead later this year.”

 

These were among the other reactions…

https://twitter.com/chrisbowlz/status/716947122743017472