August 2010

Queen’s British Steak House and Grill, the rather stylish-looking venture in the former British Queen pub on New Wanstead, will be opening on 18 September, Wansteadium can confirm.  It’s been reported that it’s the owners of the even-more stylish-looking Blue Boar in Abridge who are behind the plan; the website for the restaurant is not yet giving much away – and certainly not anything as detailed as menus and prices. More details to follow when available…

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Bizarre, but this was the scene in St Mary’s Avenue on Saturday, as captured by Wansteadium reader (and urban morphologist) Reza Masoudi. More pictures on Reza’s photo blog here.

Volunteers to demystify things are welcome.

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Public service announcement time: the rearranged rubbish and recycling collection dates after Bank Holiday Monday are as follows:

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Official confirmation from Redbridge Council here: Holiday collection dates.

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Wanstead pictures

Sign of times gone by

29 August 2010

Ain’t it great when removed shop signs reveal layers of the past? (Click to enlarge.)

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No drama in Nutter Lane

24 August 2010

Windy Tuesday in Wanstead almost resulted in drama in the comically named Nutter Lane near the tennis club, when a falling tree landed on a white van, narrowly missing a Wansteadium reader walking by with her children. @janeclapton reports: “The tree fell across the road on to the van, luckily falling on top of the [...]

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The Pryce is Wright

24 August 2010

It’s a bit of a comedown since the heady days of Horsfall and Wright, but estate agents Elizabeth Pryce is now comfortably settled in the shop next door to its former offices. As such it’s a bit of a zero sum gain for Wanstead High Street diversity, but on the plus side it does free [...]

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Wanstead news roundup, 24,08.10; Artists, white lines, and TV

23 August 2010

• The full list of artists participating in the Wanstead Art Trail – a fantastically enlightened bid to give Wanstead artistic buzz (rather like the regeneration-inducing Folkestone Triennial) – has been published by the Wanstead Society. It shows 63 venues in Wanstead which will be showing works by more than 130 artists, both professional and [...]

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