The fundraising effort to put new cricket nets at Wanstead Cricket Club’s home at Overton Drive has received a boost with a £10,000 donation from the National Lottery Community Fund.
The donation was awarded partly because of the club’s success in “achieving social harmony in Wanstead”. Kudos.
Further donations can be made here.
People of Wanstead. The 2019 Wanstead Fringe is nearly here, and you can now start buying tickets for a selection of the events.
To get you started, you can buy tickets for The Railway Children musical – which is being staged at the Deaton Theatre at Forest School by the same theatre company which last year put on The Secret Garden. As anyone who saw that will know, this is a fantastically talented outfit and we’re delighted they’re taking part in the Fringe again. Professional theatre, right here in Wanstead.
As last year, there are family discounts available. All details – and tickets – can be found on this page at wansteadfringe.org.
Each day this week, Wansteadium will be revealing another event you can take part in this year’s Fringe – sign up here to get our newsletter and keep in touch.
A new little library – where passers-by are invited to take a book for free and also to leave one for someone else – has sprung up in Snaresbrook. It’s in Sylvan Road for any curious readers.
The Little Library movement now has thousands of boxes spotted around the country and overseas.
It loves it.
So we can really celebrate the achievement of the Wanstead Cricket Club, based in Overton Drive, which consistently performs at every level – and which also is a model for junior cricket, boys and girls.
When Wanstead became ECB Royal London national club champions in 2017 in a final at Lord’s, seven of the team playing had gone through the club’s junior cricket programme as boys.
And when so many are asking how young people can be introduced to the game, Wanstead should be something of an example. There is a way that cricket-lovers can help.
The club is raising money to install new nets at Overton Drive which would massively improve training facilities. It recently received a £25,000 grant towards the nets from Sport England, which helps towards the total of £75,000 which is needed.
Fundraising events are taking place over the summer, but there is also a crowdfunding page here for anyone wanting to make a contribution.
A planning application to rebuild a house on Grove Park included rooms marked “gentleman’s club” and “bar” and one with a “dancing pole”, leading to objections being lodged against the plan.
But the plan, it has emerged, was submitted in error and the rooms in question will actually be a home office. It appears to have been a private joke between the homeowner and architect. The applicant has written to Redbridge explaining the following:
“The architect who drew the plans is a close friend of mine and on an earlier draft set of plans, the room was labelled as a Gentleman’s Club. This was changed to a Home Study/Office on a later set of plans which was intended to be submitted with the planning application. However, on submission of the planning application, the earlier draft plan was inadvertently included with the application instead of the true plan (the only difference being description of the room as a Home Study/Office).”
Residents have been receiving letters from Thames Water warning them that water pipe work is to start in two weeks’ time and go on until next March.
The work will involve much traffic management, but what has alarmed some residents is the threat to trees and hedges – some street trees may need to be removed, the letter says.
And although the work is to affect the “Herman Hill area” (as they spell it), the map they supply covers pretty much the whole of Wanstead – all the way up to Redbridge Lane West.
Not a #CleanerGreenerWanstead if you live on #HermonHill . @RedbridgeLive firstly allowed parking on pavement, then prune trees so badly they die and now they allow @thameswater to chop down the remaining trees https://t.co/EgjGlKi8Dr
— Lloyd Sampson (@LloydSampson) July 4, 2019
