Fingers crossed for the Wanstead butcher

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Concern is mounting among Wanstead shoppers about what has happened to the High Street butcher’s shop.

A G Dennis, the oldest shop in Wanstead, has not been open since New Year’s Day and even fellow shopkeepers seem non-plussed about what has happened.

One told Wansteadium: “I’m hoping it’s just delivery problems but if it’s closed it’s going to put a huge dent in the trade on the High St.”

There is no indication on the shop’s website of what has prevented it opening. Wansteadium has tried unsuccessfully to contact the shop. 

The shop celebrated its 90th anniversary in September

 
but looking very empty on Friday afternoon…
 

The return of Evergreen Field… again…

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Of course, it never really went away. The fenced-off field on Wanstead High Street has been sitting there, unoccupied, just as it has been doing for the past 50 years or so. But the discussion about what its future should be has returned.

Regular readers might cast their minds back more than a year when Wansteadium published a set of ideas about the future use of the field. These ideas were prepared by an informal working group of interested Wanstead residents, and brought some planning and architectural experience to the thorny issue. Many of you left comments or sent emails, and these have been reflected in a revised document. The new paper assesses the viability and practicality of different ideas. Wansteadium readers are invited once again to read the paper and leave comments. You can open the document here

Xmas tree ‘was vandalised’

  The lights on the back of the Christmas tree on George Green stopped working because of an ‘act of vandalism’.

Snaresbrook councillor Colin Cronin asked Redbridge council employees to check the tree after last week’s item in Wansteadium about half of the tree being dark.

They have now investigated and told him that the lights were vandalised, he said on the Wansteadium Facebook page.

Getting needled

  It’s nearly Twelfth Night, almost time those old Christmas trees down. And while you’re doing so, check to see if our resident tree expert Scott Whitehead’s November prediction that the pine needles will fall more than normal because of the warm weather has come true.

Scott made the prediction here.

And it seems to have come true for at least one household on Nightingale Lane (pictured above) which shoved their tree stick thing on to the pavement a week ago.