Category: Wansteadium

• Wanstead now looks properly Christmassy.

• Residents near the cricket ground in Overton Drive will find out on Monday if it will be turned into a big Aussie campsite during the Olympics.

• The Orange Tree in Wanstead High Street says it too has noticed a drop in trade since the opening of Westfield, and in particular that people are not staying on the High Street on a Saturday any more. It has a great website though.

• The Wanstead Guardian does, it seems, actually cost 55p. The price went up three weeks ago. Then last week it went down to 50p, leaving Wansteadium wondering if there had been a pretty pricey cock-up or a pretty complicated deliberation about the elasticity of newspaper pricing. Turns out it must have been the former.

• Gardening volunteers wanted – see pictures…

 

• You can pick up your own ‘make your own model of Andrews Builders’ Merchants’ postcard for free at the Larder. Or if you really really want one, we’ll send you one. E-mail us at wansteadium@gmail.com with your name and address. (Also the address for generous sponsors to get in touch, incidentally.)

 

Anyone can add an event to the Wansteadium Events calendar by sending details to events@wansteadium.com. Wansteadium now has more than 1,000 regular followers in Wanstead so it’s a great way to let people know what’s going on.

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Calling Bobby and Joyce, their children or grandchildren, whoever you are…

A photo album of Bobby and Joyce’s 60th wedding anniversary has been donated, presumably inadvertently, to Wanstead Oxfam.

Jill White, the shop’s manager, said that the book is full of family pictures and messages from the couple’s children and grandchildren, adding: “We can’t imagine they meant it to be donated.”

The book can be recovered from the shop which can be contacted via oxfamshopf8092@oxfam.org.uk, telephone 020 8530 3413.

• Plans to install a cycle lane across the middle of Christ Church Green, which had been opposed by some users of the park, were criticised at the Area One committee on Monday. More details from Wanstead Guardian.

• The number of 18-24-year-olds registered as being out of work in the Leyton and Wanstead constituency rose from 100 in January to 245 in September, according to the ONS.

• Shops in George Lane, led by Suzanne Bennett of Sid and Evie’s, are planning price cuts on Saturday 3 December as part of a campaign to persuade locals not to do their shopping at Westfield.

* Could the Olympic torch relay come down Wanstead High Street? The final route is not being announced until the Spring, but the torch will be making its way from Waltham Forest to Barking via Redbridge on 22 July next year, and the council is planning to put 48 Olympic banners on lampposts on the High Street and Cambridge Park. So it’s a maybe.

• And the best news of all is that, though the renovations at the former Andrews’ Builders’ Merchants are going on (the iconic wooden sign sadly ended up unloved in a skip), Wansteadium is pleased to announce that you can now build your own, so long as you don’t mind it being about two inches tall, made of cardboard, and self-assembly. Collect one of these exclusive, limited edition (and yet somehow free) postcards from the Larder. Hurry while stocks last.

 

Anyone can add an event to the Wansteadium Events calendar by sending details to events@wansteadium.com. Wansteadium now has more than 1,000 regular followers in Wanstead so it’s a great way to let people know what’s going on.

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