Wansteadium

Our man who will review decisions (if asked) writes:

“Fives & Heronians Cricket Club, with their heritage as old boys of Wanstead High School, returned to former stamping grounds and proceeded to trample all over Wanstead 6th XI.

Walid Sherzai took five wickets for the 5th XI in a low-scoring win at Basildon.

The 4th team gave best to Chingford despite continued good batting from Giri Rathakrishnan.

Wanstead 3rd XI were simply too strong for Woodford Wells, Mehad Khan bowling 7 overs while taking four wickets for just 7 runs.

A strong adelphian opening attack (Adam and Jack Lord, top,) notwithstanding, the 2nd XI lost to Woodford Wells and are beginning to flirt with relegation.

At Overton Drive on a gorgeous afternoon, despite an accomplished half-century from teenager Jonathan Das, the 1st XI just could not prise victory from Upminster who clung on for a draw.”

You can get more details on Wanstead and Snaresbrook CC at their website.

Send photos to Wansteadium@gmail.com. Thanks to Nick, Matt and Liv.

UPDATE: As sharp-eyed readers pointed out, the document smashed its estimates and sold for £58,750. Obviously it’s the Wanstead effect.

Forget old Wanstead Tube signs. Chuck away commemorative Wanstead coasters. If there was Top Trumps for real classy Wanstead memorabilia, this would win in every category. And it will only cost you an estimated £10,000.

Today Sothebys in London will auction a 1610 manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney’s one act play The Lady of May which had been performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I at Wanstead Hall in the 1570s. The play is also set in “Wanstead Garden”.  The Sotheby’s image is available in high resolution so it should be possible to decypher the lettering, though that will not be a simple task except for the most ornate of handwriters.

 

The weather forecast is currently much better for this year’s Music in Wanstead Park – being held this Saturday, 13 July – than it was last year when the bands and crowds had to battle against wind and rain.

The event has a full line-up, below, and for the first time includes an author’s tent featuring Wansteadium’s favourite Wanstead-based thriller writer Anya Lipska and others. The event starts at 2pm and is in front of the Temple. Park entrances are in Northumberland Avenue E12 and Warren Road E11, and tickets cost £10 – £4 for concessions. Contact contact@aldersbrook.info or tel 020 8989 4898 for more details.

MAIN STAGE:
2.00pm Samba Band procession – Churchfields & Newbury Park schools
2.40pm Wanstead High School Jazz Band
3.10pm Fiddles & Co- Redbridge Music School folk group
3.50pm Meg Cavanaugh – a smokey voice from the Mid-West
4.30pm Redbridge Music School Sax Quartet
5.00pm The Flashbacks – popular music covers
5.40pm Hannah White- singer song writer
6.10pm Shed Heads- eclectic rock
6.50pm The East Collective – beatboxing & funky bass
7.30pm AJ Holmes & the Hackney Empire- Afro pop
8.30pm CONCERT BAD ASS BRASS – our jazz funk main band (pictured)

2 pm-7pm ACOUSTIC TENT music
3pm Acoustic Tent Ukelele Workshops

2pm onwards MINI-LITERATURE FESTIVAL:
Readings, Talks & Book Signings by writers & illustrators
2pm TAMARA MACFARLANE -‘Amazing Esme’
3pm ANYA LIPSKA , thriller writer extraordinaire
4pm SALVATORE RUBBINO- children’s illusration workshop
5pm ANTHONY CARTWRIGHT, on Thatcher & the Eighties

FAMILY ACTIVITIES FROM 2.00PM:
2.30pm onwards: INSIDE THE WHALE: ‘The Pirate’s Misadventure’
SHOWS AT 2.30, 3.00, 3.30, 5.00, 5.30, and 6.00pm
2pm-8pm ROLLAPALUZA cycle sport
2pm -5.30pm SNAKEY SUE & OWLWISE: live snakes and owls
2pm-5pm WELLGATE COMMUNITY FARM
2pm-9pm SPIDER MOUNTAIN
2pm-6pm SUMO SUITS
2pm-9pm RODEO BULL
2-9pm SPACEBALL
2pm-6pm TRAMPOLINE TRAILER
2.30 pm-5pm FOOTBALL PENALTY SHOOT-OUT
4pm EGGATHON
2- 6pm CURIOUS DREAMS & FACEPAINTING in the Children’s Tent
2.000pm-5.30pm CRAFT & VINTAGE STALLS

REFRESHMENTS all day
Beer & Wine tent, Caribbean food, Pimms, Star of India, Veggie stall, BBQ, & Teas

Our man with the grass stains writes:

“Summer arrived, as did some great perfomances. The outstanding Wanstead outcome was Bilal Patel’s unbeaten century in the 6th XI win over Epping. Adding injury to injury, three Epping players were unfortunate enough to have to leave the field.

In the 5th team Sriram Pathmarajah continued his run of form, and his habit of not buying a celebratory jug of beer, with a half-century in the win at Stanford le Hope. Brentwood hosted the 4th XI, hoisted a huge total, and hampered the Herons’ chance of a win with unhurried tactics.

Hutton’s Frazer Bradshaw bashed Wanstead 3rd team’s bowling for a stunning hundred, taking an especial liking to Alan Lord’s generosity, but the other bowlers held firm to force a victory, redemption coming from James Fitzgerald’s five wickets.

The 2nd team came second and the 1st team first in their respective matches against Colchester & East Essex. Nikunj Velani, with a fifty, emerges with credit in the former game, and Fayyaz Khan (right), clearly not a product of the youth policy of Wanstead or of any other club, clamped Colchester with five wickets.

The Heronettes, Wanstead’s ladies’ team, topped the lot with a tie in a Twenty/20 match against Old Actonians.”