A new occasional column, a selection from the Wansteadium archive.
From the archive · 10 years ago · 1 November 2016
Armed police chase in Wanstead streetDozens of police, many armed with machine guns, hunted three men in Wanstead on Tuesday night following a chase in which they crashed a car into a garden wall. Witnesses said the men ran out of the car, in which there was a gun. One of the men escaped into a house on Elmcroft Avenue.… Read the original story
From the archive · 10 years ago · 24 October 2016
Wanstead’s new cafe… ring any bells?This is the look for the new coffee shop on Wanstead High Street, currently getting ready to open in its spot formerly occupied by the Orange Tree. Apart from typical semantic whingeing from people like Wansteadium (how exactly can something be “Est” and “since”?), so far it looks smart and in keeping with the generally… Read the original story
From the archive · 10 years ago · 27 October 2016
Does Ocado have a problem with Wanstead?Online supermarket Ocado, whose vans are a familiar sight around Wanstead, has told one Wansteadium reader that it is not registering new customers in the area because of levels of fraud. The reader, who asked not to be named but lives in central Wanstead, placed an order as a new customer but was then informed… Read the original story
From the archive · 10 years ago · 14 October 2016
Wanstead gets a new newspaperNot many places get new newspapers nowadays – in fact the opposite is true with more than 300 newspapers closing across the UK in the past ten years. But Wanstead has bucked the trend with the launch of a new free weekly newspaper – the Wanstead and Woodford Recorder. Issues are being handed out on… Read the original story
From the archive · 15 years ago · 21 October 2011
What’s to become of Andrew’s Builder’s Merchants?No-one seems to know what is to happen to the former Andrew’s Builders Merchants on Woodbine Place. Renovations are clearly taking place at the boxy little shop, which closed last year after many decades’ service to the people of Wanstead (tap washers and fairy lights, mostly). Double glazing has been installed, and electrical work has… Read the original story
From the archive · 10 years ago · 11 November 2016
Is THIS the Ocado problem in Wanstead?We reported that online supermarket Ocado was apparently refusing to take on new customers in Wanstead, saying it was because of levels of fraud. We weren’t sure what that meant, but Wansteadium reader has a clue. The fraud involves people making orders for an Ocado delivery with a fraudulent credit card and a real delivery… Read the original story
From the archive · 15 years ago · 22 October 2011
Wanstead Shops update: An answer for Andrews?Normally reliable sources have told Wansteadium that the answer to what the future holds for Andrew’s Builders Merchants is… cloth. Unlikely (and underwhelming) as it might seem, the Woodbine Place premises is to house a fabric retailer and wholesaler. The report is unconfirmed, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here… Read the original story