Peter Sceats of the Foresters Scooter Club writes:
Hi. I am trying to get photos and information about the old Vespa and Lambretta dealer which used to be in Wanstead High Street, at the junction with Hermon Hill. It was called Masons, but it was replaced by a piano shop and then the Elizabeth Price estate agents. Thanks in advance, Peter Sceats (Foresters Scooter Club, founded in Wanstead in 1957).
You can send information and pictures to us at wansteadium[at]gmail.com
…one to go.
Our ongoing mission to prove that elusive commodities can, in fact, be obtained in Wanstead. Parmesan was easy. Now stalwart @yenwodt offers this:
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The rotten stump of the Wanstead ‘tree with a postcode’ which was made famous by anti-road protesters in the 1990s is coming back to the George green, it’s reported.
The Wanstead Guardian says that the Corporation of London is to return the stump, having removed it last year for preservation works.
Wansteadium’s food blogger Suki Orange writes:
How should Wanstead loyalists react to this dissing dished out on Nice Croissant? I suppose at least it’s delivered with some flourish…
It comes from the London Review of Breakfasts:
The bread was of the ilk that lives sweating in placcy bags on supermarket shelves, so had dessicated unpleasantly after its grilling. The bechamel carried few hints of excitement, but was sufficiently gooey, if unevenly spread. The ham: pellucid. Barely there. The cheese warmed proceedings up. It always does. So – not a total dîner de chien, just slightly disappointing. But to improve matters, my latte arrived in one of those curvaceous mini-vases that seem to have fallen from favour, all moues and frothiness, giving the glad eye to my dining partner’s yeomanly mug of tea.
So you can’t buy parmesan, almonds or polyfilla in Wanstead? Well, @JimSpin, shoppers of Wanstead seem to disagree on one point at least: there are many different kinds of Parmesan on sale in Wanstead. (And reader Tom adds: “Surely you can substitute polyfilla with philadelphia in most recipes?”)
But here is the evidence:
Now – first person to find some almonds and/or polyfilla will win a Wansteadium pencil.
